rapidsms-broadcast integrates with the RapidSMS framework and allows you to send scheduled broadcast messages to certain groups of Contacts.
To add rapidsms-broadcast to an existing RapidSMS project, add it and its dependencies to your installed apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'rapidsms',
'rapidsms.contrib.messagelog',
'groups',
'broadcast',
'pagination',
'sorter',
...
]In addition to the default middleware classes, be sure to include pagination middleware:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
...
'pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
...
]Configure django_sorter:
SORTER_ALLOWED_CRITERIA = {
'sort_rules': ['id', 'keyword', 'source', 'dest', 'message', 'rule_type', 'label'],
'sort_broadcasts': ['id', 'date', 'schedule_frequency', 'body'],
'sort_messages': ['broadcast__id', 'broadcast__body', 'date_created', 'status', 'recipient', 'date_sent'],
}Add broadcast URLs to your urlconf:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^broadcast/', include('broadcast.urls')),
)Optionally, add a link to broadcast in your RAPIDSMS_TABS setting:
RAPIDSMS_TABS += [
('broadcast.views.send_message', 'Send Broadcast'),
]Finally, run syncdb or migrate:
python manage.py migrate broadcastYou can run the tests via:
python runtests.pyIf you would like to run specific test(s), specify them as arguments to the command:
python runtests.py broadcast.BroadcastAppTest.test_queue_creationrapidsms-broadcast is released under the BSD License. See the LICENSE file for more details.
If you think you've found a bug or are interested in contributing to this project check out rapidsms-broadcast on Github.
Development sponsored by Caktus Consulting Group, LLC.