Text and Macro Messaging

Text and Macro Messaging Concepts

Integration with Text and Macro Messaging (TMM) is based on the concept of predefined fields and forms (macro message templates). These constructs provide the means to create dynamic, custom forms that may be used to send and receive messages. Messages that originate at the mobile terminal are said to be return messages. Messages that originate at the Services Portal (or from customer integration) are said to be forward messages. Users with the proper authorization are able to create forms for forward and return messages. Once created, these forms are transmitted to the entire mobile population and reside on the mobile terminals. A driver is able to call up a form, fill it with information and transmit it to the TMM application. The TMM application, in turn, publishes the content of these forms to Event Subscription Service (ESS). Remote applications that subscribe to return message feeds are able to retrieve the data from these messages through the use of the dequeue web service. The sendTextMessage web service described below provides the means for remote applications to transmit forward messages.

See Text & Macro Message Integration for an in-depth discussion of fields, groups, forms and message integration.

Text and Macro Messaging Web Services

The methods and data types in this section are related to text and macro messaging.
These are available through the TMMWebSvcs WSDL.

The text and macro messaging methods are:

• Send Text Message
• Carbon Copy Return Message
• Mark Message as Seen

• Create Macro
• Delete Macro
• Get Macro
• Get Macro Extended
• Get Macro List

• Create Dictionary Entry
• Delete Dictionary Entry
• Get Dictionary Entry

• Send Binary Message