Email template for email to sms service

[CraigWeb]

Hi guys

I need some advice on setting up an email template that will be sent to a email to sms service provider. The system consists of the following.

There are 50 remote sewerage site that have a sump and 2 pumps.
There is a discrete point for the trip/healthy signal so I will set an on change event for this as it is helpful to know if the pump goes back to healthy.
There is a ultra sonic sump level that will need a high and high-high event handler
I am quite comfortable with getting all this setup and did a test email event handler today.

The email to sms provider has indicated that I will need to send the email to them with the destination cellphone number as the subject, there will be about 5 numbers comma separated. I have not figured out how to approach this and will need some help due to the little time available.
The email will need to consist of :
To: serviceprovider.com
Sugbject : 0841231111,0841231133 ( cell phone number)
Body : "site name" - "device name" - "point name"-"point value"
eg: Margate- Pump 1 - Condition - Trip/Healthy
or
Margate - Sump - level 90%

Id also like a little advice on how to structure the data point naming. So that these values can be dynamically inserted into the email body and not have the need to make a template per remote site. our radio network topology is a star and all the remote nodes data gets organised on a central PLC which will be a modbus TCP data source. My initial thought would be to structure it as follows even tho all the data sources will all have the same IP:

Data source = site name
Device name = pump 1
point name = condition
point value = trip/healthy

Data source = site name
Device name = Sump
point name = Level
point value = 90%

Thanks in advance for any help...

[JoelHaggar]

@craigweb

Here is a post from Phillip that has useful information in it. https://forum.infiniteautomation.com/topic/2867/email-title-format/3

For your exact format here are the steps to get it working.

1. On systems setting under email settings, make sure you have the email format set to HTML and Text

On your email event handler use this as the custom template:

<@subject>0841231111,0841231133</@subject>
<#if renderedHtmlPointValues??>
  <#list renderedPointValues as renderedPvt>
  ${point.dataSourceName} - ${point.deviceName} - ${point.name} - ${renderedPvt.value} - ${renderedPvt.time}
  </#list>
</#if>

You can remove the - ${renderedPvt.time} if you don't want the time stamp.

Also, change the: Include previous point values for point events to 1 on the email handler.

Your email should look like this.

[CraigWeb]

Thanks Joel

I did a quick test and the mail is as expected just need to do a test now with the service provider but I am quite confident it will work...

[Frank_Itoua]

Re: Email template for email to sms service

Hi Joel,

I need add ID (Date.now) in my subject for send SMS:

<@subject>user_login=naiobeexxxxxx&api_key=xxxxxxxxxxOuajh1s2Oy&sms_type=FR&sms_sender=NAIoBEE1&transactional=1&request_id=1234&sms_recipients=00336xxxxxxx<@subject>

What i can to make for change request_id automatically with Date.now for javascript.

Thanks

[phildunlap]

Hi Frank,

You are providing a custom FTL template for an email event handler, correct?

FreeMarker Template Language has some built-in functions and special variables that would help you to achieve this, specifically the .now special variable.

See here for how to transform that into human readable strings if necessary: https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_builtins_date.html
See here for a list of special variables in FTL: https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_specvar.html