FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.

Scripting language

How about adding a simple scripting language to manage events in FLSMS!

I think it will be very useful.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on August 19, 2010 at 5:16am

Great idea; we've been considering something like this for a while. Have you got ideas for the functionality that you'd want to script?

Best wishes,

Alex

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Permalink Reply by Abdulghaphor Hajjieh on August 19, 2010 at 10:27pm

On top of my head would event handling for:

on receive sms, on send sms, on device connect, on device disconnect, on send-fail

and internal identifiers for
1. sender number
2. receiver number
3. receiver name
4. receiver group(s) [this could be an array if multiple groups available!]

also, the use of internal variables.

and include wildcard keywords to process text messages!

and "if then else", and logical tools

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Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on August 20, 2010 at 8:02am

Nice ideas! Are you interested in discussing implementation of this? If so, head over to the developers mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/frontlinesms-developers

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Permalink Reply by Abdulghaphor Hajjieh on August 20, 2010 at 1:45pm

thank you!

I'm not a coder, unfortunately. I'm a marketing major at college lol

BUT, I have no problem helping you guys! FLSMS is really one of the best applications I have used so far.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Anderson on August 23, 2010 at 10:32am

Hey, shame you're not a coder! For anyone interested, I've made a quick prototype of this. You can get the source from http://github.com/alxndrsn/FrontlineSMS-Scripter-Plugin, but you'll probably need some Java experience to try it out.