Receive SMS & Presentation in Portal (FT-2002.025)

About this document

Scope

This document provides background information as well as a functional description of the FT-2002.025 Receive SMS & Presentation in Portal standard feature. The described feature is supported from the release version 5.1 onwards.

Note

Receive SMS & Presentation in Portal is a standard feature and does not require any special license.

This feature is part of the Account Self-Administration functionality with number FN-2001.

Feature Availability

Feature overview

Goals

The aim of the Receive SMS & Presentation in Portal feature is to allow Users to request Delivery Reports when SMS are sent from CMP and to present the SMS sent from CMP and Delivery Reports to Users in the Enterprise Portal.

Out of scope

• Account level shortcodes for AO/AT SMS

• Encryption of sent and received SMS in CMP

Preconditions & Assumption

• The feature requires SMPP integration into the operator SMSC

Functionality of the feature

When using the Enterprise Portal's Send SMS feature, Users can request an SMS Delivery Report. When the Request SMS Delivery Report checkbox is selected, CMP requests a Delivery Report from the SMSC when the SMS is sent.

In the SMS Management tab of the Enterprise Portal, CMP displays for each SIM the

• AO-MT SMS sent via CMP,

• Delivery Reports, and

• MO-AT SMS sent to CMP.

A Portal Access Right (ACL) determines whether the User has access to the SMS Management tab in the Enterprise Portal.

CMP displays for each in the SIM Management tab the

• Source,

• Destination,

• Type (AO-MT SMS, Delivery Report, MO-AT SMS),

• Delivery Report requested (for AO-MT SMS only),

• Timestamp,

• Message Content,

• Message Data Coding (Text, Binary), and

• SMS Encoding (U=UTF8 string, H=hexadecimal string).

Note that CMP does not decode any binary or hexadecimal encoded SMS.

The provided information may be filtered/searched by

• Type,

• Date from/to,

• Source,

• Destination, and

• Message Content (basic text search only, no hexadecimal or binary specific search).

Enterprise Portal displays a notification message that only the number of items defined in the respective configuration item is shown in the SMS Management tab.