22 May 2025 Call
French interpretation available
Topics discussed
- RapidPro outbound requests were not going through. API changes required specific user-agent header to be set.
- Forum Post
- Feature added to CHT to allow header to be added to request. Resolved the issue.
- TextIt API encountered same issue even in
4.19.0
"sms": { "outgoing_service": "rapidpro", "rapidpro": { "url": "[https://textit.com/"](https://textit.com/%22) } },- Tested it out and was still failing. Still needs additional fine-tuning to work with CHT.
- PR exists for adding user-agent header to ALL outgoing requests coming from CHT.
- Add user-agent header to outgoing requests · Issue #9936 · medic/cht-core · GitHub
- Android Push Notification from CHT
- Forum Post
- Enable android notifications for task reminders/alerts · Issue #9255 · medic/cht-core · GitHub
- Create Android notifications from Tasks · Issue #93 · medic/cht-android · GitHub
- Design Doc
- Interesting subject given the ongoing work on Task Prioritization
- Want to be able to define better visual queues in the app
- Also ongoing efforts to support task filtering
- Design Doc
- Nepal transitioning from SMS to Android based deployments:
- Interest among new users in notifications for high priority tasks.
- Interest in a dedicated session to walk through cht-core + other Medic repos
- Great feedback. Need to continue working to improve on-boarding experience for CHT
- CHT Dev Hour is a good opportunity for discussing things like this.
- Mentorship channel on the forum could also help facilitate mentorship
- Encouragement to add Dev Hour discussion topics as replies out on the forum announcement as well as posting any development-related topics out on the forum category
- Schedule of the CHT Community Meetup call
- Participants in call are mostly from earlier time-zones
- Proposal is to update call schedule to always happen at 13:00 UTC
- Suggestion to have a Poll