Telephone and SMS integration on the booking system
Category Domino Reservations
So I had a bit more time Saturday to do some more work on the booking system. Still a couple more things to add, but using Twilio I was very quickly able to setup SMS text notifications and a system where users can check the schedule via the phone. I still have to add the ability for people to schedule a booking via the system, I have a PIN entry system that works out who the user is dialed in coded and working, but I still need to put in the code where people put in the date and time where the code then checks for double booking via phone. Twilio makes it really easy to output the info for playback via a phone, I just point it to a Domino view formatted as XML with the relevant Twilio commands and away it goes, very cool stuff. Some of the static messages I recorded like the welcome message, and others are synthesize voices, you should be able to pretty easily tell which is which.
100% Domino apart from the Twilio stuff, which is telephony in the cloud (no Phone Notes anymore remember). Built using Domino Designer 8.5.1 (boy does that crash a lot), all the code is actually all old style code, no XPage stuff here, so it can run on Domino 7 servers, I have a feeling it would even run on Domino 6 quite happily.
Anyway, I recorded an updated demo which you can watch here. I figure a couple of evenings and it will be pretty much ready for me to train the other pilots. The features to go in from now on are pretty much cream.
So I had a bit more time Saturday to do some more work on the booking system. Still a couple more things to add, but using Twilio I was very quickly able to setup SMS text notifications and a system where users can check the schedule via the phone. I still have to add the ability for people to schedule a booking via the system, I have a PIN entry system that works out who the user is dialed in coded and working, but I still need to put in the code where people put in the date and time where the code then checks for double booking via phone. Twilio makes it really easy to output the info for playback via a phone, I just point it to a Domino view formatted as XML with the relevant Twilio commands and away it goes, very cool stuff. Some of the static messages I recorded like the welcome message, and others are synthesize voices, you should be able to pretty easily tell which is which.
100% Domino apart from the Twilio stuff, which is telephony in the cloud (no Phone Notes anymore remember). Built using Domino Designer 8.5.1 (boy does that crash a lot), all the code is actually all old style code, no XPage stuff here, so it can run on Domino 7 servers, I have a feeling it would even run on Domino 6 quite happily.
Anyway, I recorded an updated demo which you can watch here. I figure a couple of evenings and it will be pretty much ready for me to train the other pilots. The features to go in from now on are pretty much cream.
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Posted by Dad At 06:17:46 PM On 03/22/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Carl Tyler At 06:28:13 PM On 03/22/2010 | - Website - |
Can you give me a tip? To emulate your effort, should I put the DHTMLX resources into the Domino DB, or just put them on the Domino server (in which folder?) for resources for the scheduling calendar?
Any tips appreciated...
Love your work. Paul G.
Posted by Paul Gaudion At 11:52:37 PM On 04/11/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Carl Tyler At 11:59:03 PM On 04/11/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Neil At 06:51:18 PM On 04/22/2010 | - Website - |
I've run into one glitch in my efforts though, and am curious as to how you handled it. Having trouble getting authenticated responses to come back to my server cleanly. Anonymous works fine, but having trouble getting it to authenticate on their POST calls.
I know I'm missing something stupid - probably on the Domino server side. Any suggestions you can shoot my way would be appreciated.
Posted by Sam Bridegroom At 06:33:58 PM On 09/03/2010 | - Website - |