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Tiffani Chin

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Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 04, 2013, 10:22:55 am
Finally have SMS sending working and as we try our first bulk SMS.  We got the job scheduled, just like a bulk email, and then we realized that we don't have a cron job set up to get them to send.

Does a "process_SMS" api_action exist?  Can I just set up a new cron job?

Or, is this something that doesn't exist yet?

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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 04, 2013, 03:22:07 pm

check:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/job?reset=1

search for SMS

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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 05, 2013, 04:07:37 pm
Tiffani, the single CiviCRM cron job now executes all cron tasks inside of CiviCRM. So you just need that one, and then to enable the SMS job.
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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 07, 2013, 10:10:51 am
Thanks, you guys.
And special thanks to Hershel at Civihosting for helping me out with the cron.

Looking at the list of scheduled jobs (reaching it through the menus and by the civicrm/admin/job?reset=1 link that Lobo posted, I do not see an SMS job).   Is it just part of the mailing job?  We do have that one enabled and have been executing manually, but it doesn't seem to trigger scheduled SMS.

Sorry if I'm being dense.  I just don't see the obvious job to enable.

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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 07, 2013, 10:35:58 am
I'm not sure if SMS is in 4.1. I think you may need to upgrade to 4.2.
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Tiffani Chin

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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 07, 2013, 04:17:15 pm
We have a 4.2 dev site.  I double checked to make sure I was looking there.

Screenshot below shows I have SMS functionality (which I do not have in 4.1) but no job where I think an SMS or Send SMS would be.

What do you think?

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Re: Cron job for Bulk SMS sending
January 08, 2013, 09:12:47 pm
Update:

According to Hershel's advice, I upgraded to 4.2.7 and now there is a process_sms job in my Scheduled Jobs listing.  Not sure what was going wrong before, but happy to see that it has resolved itself.
 
Thanks for your help!
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