SMS & eFax Release Version 1.14

Owned by Sheni Singhal
Last updated: Mar 29, 2022
3 min read

 

 

 

New Features

1. Number Lookup Service

This feature helps you know the details behind every phone number. You can use it to make each call more productive, reduce undelivered messages, and protect from spam and fraud.

  • We have exposed a new method

NumberLookupService.NumberLookupWrapper oWrapper = NumberLookupService.getNumberLookupDetails('+19172342345');

  • This method will give the below number details

callerName":"DOE JOHN",

"carrierName":"NEW CINGULAR WIRELES ",

"carrierType":"mobile",

"city":"NWYRCYZN01",

"sCountryCode":"US",

"sPhoneNumber":"+19172342345",

"state":"New York"

 

2. Allow Scheduled Message to be sent from the Campaign

  • This feature helps you to schedule bulk messages to be sent from a campaign. The user can select the date and the timings of the message.

 

  • User can also send an adhoc SMS message by creating a SMS record with ‘scheduled’ as Message Status and providing the Scheduled Time.

  • The message will appear in the chat box as shown in the image below. The yellow clock icon below the message represents that this is a scheduled message.

 

  • If you bring your cursor to the clock icon, you will able to see the date and time when the message is scheduled to be sent as shown below:

  • Batch is scheduled to run every day to check the scheduled time and send the messages. The frequency of the Batch can be adjusted as required.

 

3. Manually Create Scheduled SMS

  • You can also manually create the Scheduled SMS by setting the below 2 fields in additional to the mandatory fields:

    • smsefax_guru__Message_Status__c = ‘scheduled’

    • smsefax_guru__Scheduled_Time__c = Date/Time format

4. Map Template Names with SMS Message

This new feature allows you to store which Template was used for sending the SMS Message. If a user selects the Template from the SMS Component Screen to send a message, SMS Message records holds the information of the Template Name.

Similarly if while creating SMS Message record manually through code, you can provide the Template Name instead of the SMS message body and the actual SMS will be picked up from the SMS Template.

5. SMS Inbox - Responded and Not Responded messages

  • This feature gives the user easy accessibility to view Responded and Unresponded messages in the SMS inbox through the utility bar.

  • If the user has responded to all the messages, the screen will appear as shown below:

  • If the user has unresponded messages, the screen will appear as below:

 

  • The chats of the responded messages will be shown as below:

Bug Fixes

1. Disallow Null SMS messages

  • This fix prevents you from sending blank messages.

  • Whenever a user tries to send a null message or space in SMS, the error message will appear as shown below.