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Use Linkmobility to Notify Users

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Linkmobility is a comprehensive communication platform that specializes in mobile messaging, offering everything from SMS, MMS, and email services to mobile payments and app integration. With its simple API and robust system, it’s an excellent tool for businesses looking to streamline communication with their users via SMS.

While email notifications are common, they aren’t always the fastest or most reliable form of communication. In contrast, SMS notifications ensure users receive immediate updates on their sorting status. With high open rates and guaranteed delivery, SMS is often the best choice for ensuring that important messages get to users quickly and efficiently.

Here’s how Linkmobility enhances the Sorting Hat experience:

  1. Instant Notifications
    Once a user’s sorting results are ready, Linkmobility ensures that they receive an SMS right away. No more waiting for an email or refreshing a webpage — users will get their sorting result directly on their mobile device, often within seconds.
  2. Personalized Messages
    Linkmobility allows for highly customizable SMS messages, meaning you can tailor the notifications to suit your branding and tone. From a simple “You’ve been sorted!” to a more detailed message like, “Congratulations! You’ve been sorted into Gryffindor. Prepare for a magical year ahead,” the possibilities are endless.
  3. Global Reach
    Whether your users are located in your local area or across the globe, Linkmobility ensures that SMS messages are sent reliably to virtually any destination. This global capability helps make your Sorting Hat software accessible to a wider audience without worrying about regional restrictions or delays.

To streamline this process, we turned to Power Automate, Microsoft’s versatile automation tool. By combining Power Automate with Linkmobility, we were able to create a seamless flow that automatically sends personalized SMS notifications to users once they’ve been sorted. Here’s a breakdown of how we achieved this.

SMS Reciept

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You can now recieve a SMS reciept on delivery of your Howler message. Thanks to our Link Mobility integration

Just add sms to the post message to our api:
{
“sender”: “Bellatrix”,
“recipient”: “Sirius”,
“sentiment”: “Angry but polite”,
“subject”: “The end”,
“body”: “You’re definitely fired.”
“sms”: “+47[your number here]”
}

House Points for Slytherin: Helping “The Name Who Must Be Named” with Link Mobility

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House Points for Slytherin: Helping “The Name Who Must Be Named” with Link Mobility 📞⚡

In the dark corridors of tech, where even the most powerful wizards and witches face challenges, it’s not just about pulling off the most daring magic, but about offering a hand to those in need. Sometimes, the most unexpected of allies can step in to help, and in this case, Slytherin has found itself not only achieving greatness but helping others do the same.

One of the lesser-known struggles for The Name Who Must Be Named was obtaining the right phone number from Link Mobility—a crucial piece for triggering their desired process. But as with many such hurdles, it’s not about the problem but how you solve it. That’s where we, the Slytherins, stepped in.

Lending a Helping Hand

When we discovered that The Name Who Must Be Named did not have the necessary phone number from Link Mobility, we saw this as an opportunity to lend a hand. Rather than just letting them continue their journey without the proper tools, we reached out to Link Mobility and provided our own phone number and code number. This seemingly small act paved the way for something much larger.

The Magic Behind the Flow

But, of course, magic can’t just stop there. Once we shared the phone number and code number, the next step was ensuring the flow worked seamlessly in their environment. This is where the true magic happened. 🔮

We designed and triggered a cloud flow within our tenant. Here’s how it works:

  1. Triggering the Process: Once the phone number is triggered, our cloud flow takes over. It acts as a proxy between Link Mobility and The Name Who Must Be Named’s flow, ensuring that all data is properly transmitted.
  2. Sending the Body: The body of the received message from Link Mobility is forwarded to their flow via the cloud flow, making sure everything runs smoothly and automatically.
  3. Achieving Greatness: With the data now flowing effortlessly, they are able to achieve what they set out to do. What once appeared to be a stumbling block has now been transformed into an opportunity for success. ⚡

A Lesson in Collaboration

This small act serves as a reminder that the world of tech and magic isn’t just about competition or looking out for yourself. It’s about collaboration, and lending a helping hand when others need it. By sharing our phone number and providing the cloud flow proxy, we helped The Name Who Must Be Named overcome their challenge and achieve their goals. After all, Slytherin doesn’t just win—it helps others win too.

House Points for Slytherin! 🐍✨

In the end, it wasn’t just about solving a problem. It was about showing that even in a world where magical and technological solutions reign supreme, it’s always the people who make the most difference. By using cloud flows and proxy magic, we’ve not only enhanced our own capabilities but helped our fellow wizards and witches soar.

Just remember: It’s not about the victory, but about making sure everyone’s journey is as seamless as possible. And Slytherin is always here to help. 🖤

Who doesn’t love sponsors?

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Composing with Resco components

Configuring components in Power Apps isn’t always the funniest thing in the world, so whenever there is a possibility to try some new ones that might gives us a better a experience. And when the creators helps us with a great ACDC experience, it is even better, and we loved trying out the Resco Kanban board and Datepicker components.

Texting with Link Mobility

In the modern day of technology, there is every kind of communication methods everywhere, but there is still one way you can reach everyon (for the most part): Text messages

So thank you to Link Mobility for giving us a method to reach out to, and get a respond from, all the customers of Diagon Alley

With Ctelo on the phone

And since it might be to complicated to message somethings, it is sometimes necessary to speak directly with someone. And thanks to Ctelo, we have the options to give the businesses a possibility to talk with their customers over the phone… From Teams

Why using standard Linkmobility connectors, when you can create your own

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To ensure students are fully aware of each stage in their journey, we’ve implemented a Power Automate connector that sends automated SMS notifications every time a new challenge begins. The connector is integrated directly to Linkmobility APIs through an Azure function, and the connector is connected to the Azure function. This keeps them informed and ready to tackle each step with confidence.

Example of the registration flow:

The SMS received upon completing the registration:


We Love our Sponsors

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Our solution would not be possible wihtout the hard work and dedication of our sponsors solutions, enabling magical abilities we would not be able to reproduce and transforming our solutions with wizardy love.

Link Mobility

Our first process is to send an Owl with the letter to invite prospective wizards and witches to their school. If the wizard is an area which doesn’t have good owl coverage, due to extreme weather conditions, muggle political infighting or just too far away, we send them a text with their invite

This is done via Link Mobility in Power Automate, utilising their API to send out an invite to our Static Web App Portal.

This is received by prospective sorcerors as a text message

Oneflow

Once the prospective candidate has filled out their details and qualified for the next stage, we need to get agreement from their parents or guardians to allow them to attend wizarding school, and ensure they agree to go to diagon alley to get the wizarding items to prepare the new wizard for school.

This is enabled by the Contract templates and capablities of Oneflow solution.

Firstly we set up a template, then using their API, create a contract based on that template. and sent to the parent of the prospective students.

The parents then get to sign in to Oneflow to enter their details as well as the students and confirm they agree to the terms, all seamless!

Resco

For Resco, we had an abundance of choice to use their PCF components. This control bring usability to the platform easily.

We embedded the multi attachment uploader into our applicaiton process, allowing uploading of many documents all at once in an easy and user friendly manner.

PCF Gallery

Finally, not content with just those 3, we have used a PCF control from the PCF Gallery. This control is a Tag Picker, which allows quick and easy association and disassociation of records via the many to many relationship.

We used this to allow a simple, user-friendly process to associate characteristics to our potential sorcerors.

Keeping the Potions Lab Secure – Snape’s SMS Alert System

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In the shadowy depths of the dungeons, where cauldrons bubble and secrets brew, one thing is certain: Professor Snape does not tolerate unauthorized use of his prized potion-making equipment. But fear not, for we’ve conjured up a magical solution to ensure Snape is always in the know when his cauldron is in use!

🧙‍♂️ Snape’s Magical Monitoring System

Using Power Automate and the LinkMobility API, we’ve implemented a real-time alert system that sends SMS notifications directly to Snape’s pocket (or anyone who dares to take on his role).

Here’s how it works:

  1. Potion in Progress
    When someone starts using the potion cauldron (triggered by our IoT sensor and voice command), a signal is sent to Power Automate.
  2. API Magic
    Power Automate connects with the LinkMobility API, crafting an SMS message that says something like:
    “Alert: The cauldron is bubbling! Someone is using the potion equipment!”
  3. Real-Time SMS Delivery
    Within moments, the Potions Master receives a message on their phone, ensuring they can swoop in to oversee—or reprimand—the potion brewing activities.

⚙️ Behind the Spell

This system is as elegant as a perfectly brewed Felix Felicis:

  • Trigger: The flow begins when the cauldron sensor or command system detects activity.
  • Action: Power Automate generates a message using the LinkMobility API, complete with details about the cauldron’s status.
  • Result: A real-time SMS is sent, ensuring Snape (or a designated recipient) never misses a potion in progress.

Here’s a sneak peek at our flow and the magical SMS messages it sends:

🧪 Why It’s Brilliant

This system doesn’t just notify—it builds accountability and security in potion-making. Whether you’re monitoring sensitive ingredients or just ensuring Snape gets his due credit, this SMS alert adds a layer of magical oversight.

LinkMobility & Logiquill Love story

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We love to get this challenge from the sponsors! And with getting to know those, we got an immediate idea. Kudos to @linkmobility!  

Given our workflow, Wayfinder academy offers a Logiquill portal. That portal is used to make an application, upload some documents, schedule and run an interview, and all of that is used to allocate a student to the new faculty. Once that it done, we still believe there is a huge asset in all of that information and therefore, we want to use it further to follow up the student in his or her integration/adaptation journey.  

We store all the data in Sharepoint (we love it!) and also set up some automated workflows (we describe it in the different artcle). 

There are several things we do, and one of those is personalized sms.  

As a notification service our platform uses Link Mobility for sending sms messages to the students with some daily reminders, encouragement, motivation, tips and tricks (based on all the info we collected about the student). For this purpose, we are using an Azure function that receives message and the number of students. 

Our Azure function is written in C# and has a Http triggered function that receives the data necessary for sending sms messages. Link Mobility uses Basic and Oauth2 authentication, and we used the last one is it is more secure and reliable.  

In addition we will make time triggered function, that has own schedule, and will refine all records of the students that are stored in sharepoint.  

If you are also wanting to use this wonderful and easy to use API in addition to the username and password you need also to specify correct Uri, PlatformId and PlatformPartnerId. 

platformId”:”SMS”, 

platformPartnerId = “lHGdgewX” 

The most simple message look like this: 

In documentation to Link Mobile API we found these Urls: 

So, we were the first one to try and it was successful 😊 

As an addition we will try to receive a delivery reports. The delivery report Uri also could be configured in the message as a property 

“deliveryReportGates”: [“{our response URL}”]