The BiBatchConverter is able to send SMS notifications to users in several stages during the document conversion. To set up the SMS notification, navigate to the Configuration window > Notification tab and click on the SMS Notification Settings button.
The following window appears where one can configure the SMS notification:
NOTE: The SMS notification feature uses regular email sending to send out the SMS notifications to the SMS providers. In order to use the SMS Notification feature, one must select a working email client from the SMS/Email Settings dropdown list, or configure the email client in the Edit SMS/Email Settings.
Send SMS Notification
To enable the SMS notification sending, check the Send SMS Notification checkbox on the top of the window.
The selected default SMS provider will be used by default for SMS sending. To add new SMS providers, click on the Manage SMS Providers button. For more information, please refer to the Manage SMS Providers section.
The SMS Subject field contains the subject of the SMS Notification. The SMS Subject field has the following limitations:
· Data type limits: Allow characters, digits and any special characters.
· Data type length: Minimum 0 and maximum 30 characters.
From the SMS/Email Settings dropdown list, one can select an email provider to send out the SMS notifications. The following options are available:
· Use the settings from email notification – This option will use the same email settings which were setup in the BiBatchConverter Email Notifications. This option is useful if one would like to use the same email configuration for SMS and Email notifications both.
· Use default email client – Uses the default email client setup on the computer, such as Thunderbird, Lotus Notes.
· Use custom SMTP server – Uses a custom SMTP server. One can configure the SMTP server by clicking on the Edit SMS/Email Settings button.
· Yahoo
· iCloud
· AOL
To configure the Yahoo, iCloud, AOL accounts, one must click on the Edit SMS/Email Settings button, once the appropriate email provider was selected. For more information, please refer to the Edit SMS/Email Settings section.
SMS Recipients
In the SMS Recipients area, one can configure the SMS provider to send the SMS notifications with, and the recipient’s phone number to receive the email.
The “to” field of the specified SMS recipients has the following limitations:
· Data type limits: Allows only digits and + characters.
· Data type length: Fields must be minimum 8 and maximum 15-digit length number.
To set up when BiBatchConverter should send the notification, please choose from the following options:
If the Send SMS on error messages option is enabled, the BiBatchConverter will send notifications upon every error messages.
If the Send SMS when the conversion is complete option is enabled, the BiBatchConverter will send notifications once the conversion is complete.
The Send SMS on the following error codes option sends SMS notifications if a user-specified error code occurs during the conversion. Users can enter specific error codes divided by commas or error code ranges using a hyphen.
Clicking on the Send test SMS button will send a test SMS notification to all the configured SMS recipients.