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Sending SMS from File Without Task Server Processing

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Written by Antoine Larsen
Updated over a month ago

To send an SMS from a file without the necessity to be processed by the task server, you will need to check (or create them if the parameters don't already exist) the 4 system parameters in the “System Parameter Maintenance”:

Taking the values of the parameters from Task Server Administration

  1. Go to Task Server Administration

  2. Select Jobs tab

  3. Select Tasks

  4. Search from the tasks list the task that has the name SMS Outbound Messages and select it

  5. Select Data tab

  6. Below Data properties we’ll need the following information: Address, Password, Username

  7. Close the Task Server Administration window

Creating the system parameters

1. First parameter:

Key: SMS

Code: DirectMessaging

Value: Yes

2. Second parameter:

Key: SMS

Code: Address

Value: the value we took from Task Server Administration for this parameter

3. Third parameter:

Key: SMS

Code: Password

Value: the value we took from Task Server Administration for this parameter

4. Fourth parameter:

Key: SMS

Code: UserName

Value: the value we took from Task Server Administration for this parameter

Disable the task server job

  1. Go to Task Server Administration

  2. Select Jobs tab

  3. Select Tasks

  4. Search from the tasks list the task that has the name SMS Outbound Messages and select it

  5. Select General tab and uncheck the Enable box

  6. Press Save

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