ClickSend

ClickSend is a product that allows its user to track, receive, and send SMS messages, voice messages, emails , and upload media files. The ClickSend products include the following:

  • SMS gateway
  • MMS gateway
  • Rich messaging
  • Voice gateway
  • Email gateway
  • Fax gateway
  • Online post

For more information, see the company website.

In the context of Nintex Automation Cloud, ClickSend is a connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events..

The ClickSend connector A software component that allows seamless integration with third-party services, business applications, and content stores. Examples include Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft SharePoint. Connectors are used to create connections required for workflow actions and start events. is used to create connections for ClickSend actions A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process.. You can use the ClickSend actions to send marketing MMS messages to a contact list.

  • Use the Get contact lists action in a workflow to retrieve all contact lists.

  • Use the Get countries action to retrieve a list of countries and their country codes.

  • Use the Send a voice message and Send a voice message to a list actions to send text-to-speech voice messages.

  • Use the Send an MMS action to send a multimedia message.

  • Use the Send an SMS and Send an SMS to a list actions to send SMS messages.

  • Use the Upload a media file to make a file accessible to one of the ClickSend gateways.

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Create a ClickSend connection

Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.

ClickSend account requirements

  • The account you use to create a connection for ClickSend is the account that has access to the ClickSend actions.

  • Get the username and API key from your account API Credentials page (the key icon) in the ClickSend dashboard.

Create a ClickSend data lookup

Use the ClickSend data lookup to retrieve contact lists and the ClickSend list of countries. Each data lookup is configured for a specific user. You can create as many data lookups as you need. For more information on creating a data lookup and assigning permissions to it, see Data lookups.

For example, to allow users to select a specific contact list in a form, to send a marketing SMS to, add a drop-down list of contact lists to the form using a Data lookup control A form control that allow users to select from a drop-down list that has values sourced from a third-party service.. The Data lookup form control uses a ClickSend - Get contact lists ddata lookup to list the contact lists available from the ClickSend connection in the drop-down.

You can create a data lookup to:

ClickSend data lookup fields

When you create a ClickSend data lookup, you can configure additional fields to specify which tables, views, and stored procedures the data lookup should retrieve.

To access the data lookup fields, in the Add data lookup section, select the Connector and the Operation.

The following operations are available for the ClickSend connector:

  • Get contact lists

  • Get countries

The configuration fields displayed depend on the operation selected.

Operation

Field or selection

Description
Get contact lists Connection

The available ClickSend connections.
  Page

The page number of the list of contact lists to retrieve. Used for paging with the Current page field from the output of a previous call of this data lookup.
  Items per page The number of contact lists to retrieve per page.
Get countries Connection The available ClickSend connections.