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Send Single Message

This feature seeks to enable a user to send an SMS message to a student.

✑ From the OSIS sidebar, Click on the Send Single Message link under Messaging.

On the Send Single Message page, there is an Input textbox field with a search icon button and an Advanced Search button.

A. Input textbox field: this textbox allows the user to do a basic search of the following;

  • Registration number: the student Reg. No.
  • Name: The name of the students.
  • Mobile: the students’ mobile number.
  • Email: the students’ email.

✑ Click on the search button icon to get results after entering any of the above.

Advanced Search: Click on the Advanced Search button to do a more narrow search to get particular information or a certain group of students with or without any uniqueness based on the following;

  • Field: The field displays a dropdown of all students Personal and Program information titles to search from. Eg. Select Gender from the dropdown.
  • Condition: the condition works dynamically based on the selected Field. Eg. Select equals to from the dropdown. 
  • Value: Select or type-in the value you are looking for from the selected Field dropdown. Eg. select Male from the dropdown. 
    • Click on the round Plus button icon to show in Query Preview. 
    • NB: You can click on the Submit Query button to get results or join more fields to narrow the search. 
  • Join: Use joins to combine other Fields in other to narrow deep down your search. Users can select the following type of Joins;
    • AND: The AND operator displays a record if all the conditions separated by AND are TRUE.
    • OR: The OR operator displays a record if any of the conditions separated by OR is TRUE.
  • Sort On: This provides a dropdown of all students Personal and Program information titles to sort from.
  • Sort Value: The user can sort in ascending order(ASC) or descending order(DESC) of the selected Sort On. 

☛ Query Preview shows or displays the label of all selected Fields, Conditions, and Values of the user search query. Users can edit the query or delete it to start again. 

✑ Click on the Submit Query button to get results. 

For each Query result of students, the user can view or see the following fields.

  • Name: Name of student
  • Reg. No.: Student Registration number.(with their applicant number displayed beneath)
  • Mobile Number: Students’ mobile number
  • Email: The Students’ email.
  • Program: The students’ program they’re taking
  • Level: The level of the students’
  • Student’s status: Students’ status eg. Active or Inactive
  • Action: This has a Send SMS button to send an SMS to the student.

✑ Click on the Send SMS button to send an SMS to a student.

This will bring up a modal to allow the user enter their message.

✑ Click on the tags to position them at your preferred spaces within the window.

✑ Click on the Send SMS button and confirm your action by clicking on Send.

NB: The user can’t send an empty message and also, the message cannot exceed hundred(100) characters.