Making automated messages sent from RapidPro to CHT visible on the message tab

[michael]

@Evelyn_Waweru

POSTing to /api/sms and specifying “from” and “to” properties in the payload. This did not seem to work.

Did you try the solution mentioned here?

@Evelyn_Waweru

Creating an sms_message data record for the contact directly in CouchDB. This worked. However, we noted that since these automated messages will show up as new messages for the CHV, it would create spam and make it difficult to discern these automated messages from actual client interactions.

Do you mean that it showed up as a completely different message on the left hand side (instead of in the thread on the right hand side)?

@Evelyn_Waweru

Directly write the message to the database (should not trigger unread message notification)

Did this work and was just not desirable?

@Evelyn_Waweru

How to mark the sms_message data record as already read so that we avoid spamming the CHV. This in the case that there are no better ways of achieving what we need.

There are documents in the medic-user-xxxx-meta database that keep track of which records are “read”. Would it be possible to create those as well?