Hi Randy, We are doing something similar to this, but have not go so far as to actually send out the SMSes yet, although we will soon. I have developed scripts using R which interface directly to the DHIS2 database and extract out which reports are missing. Currently, the server will email a specially formatted text file to the designated national programme officer, who will send out the SMSes in bulk though the local Zambian network to remind people to report. We have tested the functionality with the Clickatell API, and this also works, but as I said, we have not put either method into actual practice yet.
I know of no way to do this through DHIS2 directly, although it might be possible through the WebAPI. However, I am sure in order to automate this, you would need some script to interface into the API, effectively an alert system. It is not particularly difficult using this approach I think, and I guess R and/or Python would both be effective tools for this purpose. Best regards, Jason On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Wilson,Randy <rwil...@msh.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > We’re looking into using DHIS-2 to send SMS alerts to cell phones when > monthly stock reports indicate that a facility is below a certain > threshold. Is this supported by the mobile phone reporting module? Has > anyone written code to do this from outside of DHIS-2? We thought it might > be useful to build this into the chron job that refreshes the datamart each > night. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Randy Wilson > > HMIS advisor > > MOH Rwanda > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp