Mobile Data Now lets you connect to databases and web services, then access that data using messaging (email, SMS text messaging or instant messaging) via preset queries.
Your users send a message with their query and Mobile Data Now sends the results back.
This configuration guide aims to quickly get you working with Mobile Data Now by taking you through a simple setup to extract data from a database:
In this tutorial we will setup a simple query to extract information from a database
For example: Sending a message to find all contacts beginning with a certain letter of the alphabet.
This should take no longer than 10 - 20 minutes to complete
We will:
- Install the software
- Create a new Project
- Link to a database and decide which tables and fields to use by creating a View
- Add a user and assign that user to a group, then assign access privileges to that group
- Create a group for public messaging
- Setup a query for the user, test it. Decide the keywords used to access the information, setup a messaging center, decide the format of the returned information and test it.
- Deploy to our user and access the information using the query we just created
Navigate through each chapter using the menu at the left.