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The alert system is dependent depends on several features:

The alerts option has to be enabled on the settings page

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Set a number that will be used to send out the sms alerts on the sms settings page

With the sms SMS provider in place - a trigger has been written to check the contents of the message sent by the user, if the message_description contains the word “alert” then its it's saved as an alert else if unless it contains the word “off”then it means . If it contains "off", the user is unsubscribing from alerts else then its ; otherwise it's a normal message that is saved in the system for mapping.

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Fields for the post variable when subscribing:

  •  Alert Alert (Required)
  • Location (Required)
  • Category (Optional)
  • Distance (Optional) - default is 20 based on km around the location lat/Lonlon.

Fields for the post variable when unsubscibingunsubscribing:

  •  Off (Required)

Possible/Future iterations:

  • Internalization - allow people to set their own keyword and give translations for them or give the keyword as “Alert” and “Off” then offer internalization capability
  • Allow users to unsubscribe from alerts based on a specific location rather than just unsubscribing them from all alerts irrespective of location.
  • Allow users to subscribe based on keywords - this is on a country level crowdmap e.g if you subscribe with keyword “beer” then all reports with this irrespective of the crowdmap are sent put as alerts to that user.