Send a text message

This example creates a button on your form that sends an SMS when it's tapped. The phone number to send it to is pulled from another field on the form. It assumes you have a text field to enter the phone number with a data name of phone_number and a hyperlink field with a data name of send_sms. It also uses a text field with the data name sms to use as the body text of the SMS message. This is just an example, so you can also build the text dynamically using any other form fields or functions. It also includes a check for the platform since the web browser does not support sending text messages.

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ON('click', 'send_sms', function(event) {
  if (!EXISTS($phone_number)) {
    ALERT('You must enter a phone number.');
    return;
  }

  if (!ISMOBILE()) {
    ALERT('Only mobile devices support making phone calls.');
    return;
  }

  // iOS uses the '&' character to separate the number from the sms text
  // Note that not all SMS apps on Android support passing the body text.
  if (PLATFORM() === 'iOS') {
    OPENURL(FORMAT('sms:%s&body=%s',
      $phone_number, encodeURIComponent($sms)));
  } else {
    OPENURL(FORMAT('sms:%s?body=%s',
      $phone_number, encodeURIComponent($sms)));
  }
});

Updated 6 months ago