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EasyLink SMS output connector
You can use the EasyLink SMS output connector to send text messages (SMS) via the EasyLink cloud SMS delivery services.
Output format, Process, and driver prerequisites
If you use a Process that creates page-formatted output, such as StoryTeller or PageOUT, you must use the Matrix Printer / Text file driver.
Platform and runtime Connector settings
The Phone Number, Customer Reference, and Billing Code properties are available in both the platform connector settings and runtime connector settings. You can only enter variables for these properties in the runtime connector settings. If you enter different values for the same option in both places, the runtimes settings are used.
Platform connector settings
Web Service Profile
Click and select the web service profile. For information about setting up a web service profile, see Creating a connection profile for EasyLink.
Maximum Characters
The maximum number of characters that can be sent in the SMS. The maximum number of characters you can send depends on the language of the SMS and the mobile network operator provider. We recommend you use a maximum of 160 characters for English and 70 for Unicode. If you want to use more characters, contact EasyLink for more information.
External Job Completion
True – StreamServer applications wait for a job completion notification from EasyLink before marking the top job as completed.
False – StreamServer applications mark the job as completed after the StreamServe job is successfully delivered from the output connector.
Note:
External job completion cannot be used if batches of message are sent to EasyLink. When these settings are used together, unexpected results are returned.
Batch size
The number of SMS messages the connector groups into a batch to send to EasyLink. The connector only sends batches in scenarios where a single input job generates many messages. If an input job generates an incomplete batch, the batch is sent at job end.
Setting this to 0 means that the batch size is unlimited and the connector groups all the messages in an input job into one batch. Unlimited batch sizes should be used with care.
For more information about how messages are grouped into batches and performance considerations, see Batch sending of messages.
Settings available in the Platform and runtime
Phone Number
The phone number to send the SMS to. You can use a variable in the runtime connector settings.
Specify the phone number using the following format:
+<country_code><phone_number>
For example:
+46704117011
You can specify multiple phone numbers by separating them with a semicolon.
For example: +46704117011; +46704117011
Customer Reference
Your customer reference with EasyLink. You can use a variable in the runtime connector settings. This field can be a maximum of 40 characters.
If External Job Completion is True, the value entered here is automatically replaced with the GUID for the top job ID.
Billing Code
The EasyLink billing code. You can use a variable in the runtime connector settings.
OpenText StreamServe 5.6.2 Updated: 2018-01-26