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abap code to send sms

Former Member — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:29:33 GMT

Hai Everyone,

I am developing a small leave application. as of now functionally everything is working perfectly. but as an added feature to this application I wanted to provide an option where employees could apply for leave by sending sms as well as the response from the team lead can be done using sms itself. so, please provide me some ideas on how to implement this.

- Rozario

Edited by: Halley Rozario on May 3, 2011 11:33 AM

Re: abap code to send sms

Former Member — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:49:44 GMT

Hi,

Sending an SMS from SAP is simple as there are many Vendors(some offer free service with restrictions on no. of chars etc) who expose Web Services which does this, you just need to consume this web service and invoke it within your program. There are many threads/blogs on SDN for this.

However, receiving an SMS is different game altogether, you might need a GSM/3G modem(software) connected to a service provider etc or use a SMS gateway. There are many software which can do this for ex: Diafaan etc.

Regards,

Chen

Edited by: Chen K V on May 3, 2011 3:21 PM

Re: abap code to send sms

Kiran_Valluru — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:00:22 GMT

Hi.,

As far I know SAP doest have sending SMS functionality., U have to use web services for that., check this blog.

/people/durairaj.athavanraja/blog/2005/07/12/send-sms-to-india-from-abap

And I think the web service in the above blog is down now.,

Hope this helps u.,

Thanks & Regards

Kiran

Re: abap code to send sms

Former Member — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:09:44 GMT

Hai Kiran,

Thx for ur reply.. I tried using tat web service but when i send sms to mobile numbers that are not starting with 98XXXXXXXX it is not sending sms. but if i send sms to numbers tat are starting with 98XXXXXXXX it is showing a status message that message has been successfully sent. but when I enquired the person to whom i sent sms they are saying that they didnt receive any messages. so would u help me in finding out what may be the problem with this particular webservice or do you knw any other web service for sending sms.

Re: abap code to send sms

Kiran_Valluru — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:37:57 GMT

Hi.,

As I mentioned that web service in that blog is down. It is not working. i jus gave u an idea how to do it. U have to use Web Service for ur requirement., Search for some free web services for sending sms.

UR company has to buy a web service from mobile vendors and have to use that web service.

Thanks & Regards

Kiran