Voting Answers

Voting service uses the list of predefined voting answers to classify the received messages.

Each voting answer has a unique ID and a text pattern. SMS Studio tries to find if any of the patterns matches the text of the received message. If the match is found the received message is recognized and the ID value of the corresponding answer is assigned to the message.

Voting answer has the following properties:

Answer

• Name - The name of the answer.
• ID - The ID value of the answer.
• Pattern - The pattern used to recognize the answer. See Wildcard Patterns for more information.
• Exclude from Voting Results - Specifies whether the answer should be excluded from the Voting Results.

Reply

• Enabled - Specifies whether the reply should be sent when the answer is recognized.
• Text - The text of the reply message. The replies to the answers may contain Voting Text Parameters, Message Text Parameters and Global Text Parameters.
• Type specifies the type of the reply message.
• Priority specifies the sending priority of the reply message.
• Account specifies the account which will be used for sending the reply. If not specified the account of the incoming message will be used. In the Item dialog, use selection button ( ... ) to select or clear the account field.
• Address specifies the address of the sender of the reply message. If not specified then the recipient address from incoming message will be used.

Voting Setup dialog - General tab

This tab displays the list of voting answers.

The Action menu contains the following options:

• Up/Down - Use to arrange the list of answers prior to using Tools - Renumber option.

The Tools menu contains the following options:

• Renumber - Use to renumber the ID numbers of the answers using their current order in the list.
• Join Answers - Use to join the patterns of the selected answers. The selected answers are replaced with a new one which contains all the patterns from the selected answers.
• Split Answers - Use to split the pattern of the selected answers. Each wildcard pattern found in the selected answers becomes a new answer.
• Include in/Exclude from Voting Results - Use to include or exclude the selected answers from Voting Results.
• Reply - Enable/Disable - Use to enable or disable sending of the reply for the selected answers.
• Reply - Set Priority - Use to set the priority of the selected replies.
• Reply - Account - Select/Clear - Use to specify the account to be used for sending the reply.
• Reply - Set Address - Use to specify the address of the sender of the replies for the selected answers.

Use Pattern Test Bar to test how the answers are recognized. While you type the text, you can see if and how that text is recognized.