{"id":302,"date":"2014-05-22T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:07:54","slug":"remote-triggering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/remote-triggering\/","title":{"rendered":"remote triggering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text-Connect<\/strong> is a powerful way to communicate with staff and clients distributed across a wide area and is proving popular in the Facilities Management industry.\u00a0 The ability to keep a centrally managed list of contacts who can then be sent a text message at the drop of a hat makes distributing urgent and critical information to widely spread individuals simple and easy.<\/p>\n<p>A handy feature our clients find helpful is the ability to <strong>remotely trigger<\/strong> a text shot to a contact list on their text-connect account,\u00a0 using a text message from their own mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly important when a mobile data connection isn&#8217;t available or local Internet connection is down. Text messages can often reach recipients even when mobile coverage is patchy and voice and data is unavailable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a quick &#8216;How To&#8217;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remote Triggering works as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. You define a mobile number(s) from which text message shots can be remotely triggered. <em>See inbox, manage, &#8220;<span>Allow triggering from&#8221;.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. Recipients of the text shot are set up as a named &#8216;<em>List<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>3. When you need to trigger a text shot, simply send a text to your text-number formatted as detailed below. Keeping a pre drafting a message on your phone will speed the process.<\/p>\n<p>4. Text-Connect recognises the senders number and interprets their text for sending a text shot.<\/p>\n<p>5. The SMS text message must contain the name of the distribution list to trigger, followed by the source address to send it from (ie a number or text label\\name), followed by the actual message to be sent. A confirmation SMS will be sent to your mobile when the list has been triggered. <em>Please note that you can only trigger distribution lists that have no spaces in their names.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This way authorised users of your account (i.e. those with mobile numbers specified on the system) can trigger text messages to go out to specific lists of people.<\/p>\n<p>Remote triggering works with Text-Connect accounts with a <strong><a title=\"Text-Number for remote triggering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.text-connect.co.uk\/options_sms-text_text-number.php\" target=\"_blank\">Text Number<\/a><\/strong> and enough message credits for <strong><a title=\"Send text messages from your computer.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.text-connect.co.uk\/options_long_text_messages.php\" target=\"_blank\">sending the text shot<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text-Connect is a powerful way to communicate with staff and clients distributed across a wide area and is proving popular in the Facilities Management industry.\u00a0 The ability to keep a centrally managed list of contacts who can then be sent &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/remote-triggering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[34,76,23,44,15,75,10,6,8,18,38,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}