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Quickstart - Send an SMS

Overview​

The purpose of this guide is to help you create a working sample that uses the Send Message activity.

This working sample enables you to quickly verify the connection to your Twilio resources and get familiar with the activity's input/output datatypes.

After completing the steps in this guide, you'll have an automation sequence that does the following:

  1. Establishes a connection to your Twilio resources (Twilio Scope).
  2. Sends an SMS message (Send Message).

Prerequisites​

Before you begin:

  1. Complete the Twilio Setup steps.

Steps​

  1. First, add an Twilio Scope activity and set the values for the input parameters like in the screenshot below. In the sample workflow above, you can see that I got the values for these parameters from variables. Here's a short description of the activity’s parameters:

    • Account Sid (String) - Your Account SID from your project dashboard.

    • API Key Sid (String) - API Key SID to work with your Twilio project. API Keys can be provisioned and revoked through the Twilio Console.

    • API Key Secret (String) - API Key Secret to work with your Twilio project. API Keys can be provisioned and revoked through the Twilio Console.

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  2. Add the Send Message activity which can be used to send an SMS message. The parameters of this activity are:

    • From (String) - The Twilio phone number in E.164 format.

    • To (String) - The phone number to call, in E.164 format, e.g. +15558675310.

    • Body (String) - The text of the message you want to send. Can be up to 1,600 characters in length.

    • Media (String[]) - List of media (up to 10) to send with the message.

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  3. Click Run and verify the SMS goes through.

A sample of this workflow can be found here.