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Textline

The Textline modules allow you to monitor, create, update, send, retrieve, list, and delete announcements, agents, conversations, and customers in your Textline account.

Getting Started with Textline

Prerequisites

  • A Textline account – you can create a Textline account at textline.com/.

[Note] Note

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Boost.space Integrator scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Textline to Boost.space Integrator

To connect your Textline account to Boost.space Integrator you need to obtain an access token from your Textline account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Boost.space Integrator module.

1. Log in to your Textline account.

2. Click Settings > Tools & Integrations > Developer API.

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3. Copy theAccess Token to your clipboard.

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4. Go to Boost.space Integrator and open the Textline module’s Create a connection dialog.

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5. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

6. In the Access Token field, enter the token copied in step 4, and click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Customers

See Setting Up Textline Webhooks to add the webhooks in your Textline account.

Watch Customers

Triggers when a customer has been created or updated.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Search Customers

Searches for customers or lists them all.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Search

Enter (map) a keyword or phrase to search the customers that match the specified criteria.

Limit

Set the maximum number of customers Boost.space Integrator will return during one execution cycle.

Get a Customer

Retrieves a customer.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Customer UUID

Select or map the Customer UUID whose details you want to retrieve.

Create a Customer

Creates a new customer.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Phone Number

Select or map the phone number of the customer. For example, (222) 222-2222.

Email

Enter (map) the email address of the customer.

Name

Enter (map) the customer name.

Notes

Enter (map) the additional information about the customer.

Tags

Add the tags for the customer.

Custom Fields

Add the custom fields and their values. For example, address.

[Note] Note

To update the custom field for a customer, you must first get the custom field’s UUID and use that to replace field_uuid.

Update a Customer

Updates a customer.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Customer UUID

Select or map the Customer UUID whose details you want to update. For example, (222) 222-2222.

Email

Enter (map) the email address of the customer.

Name

Enter (map) the customer name.

Notes

Enter (map) the additional information about the customer.

Tags

Add the tags for the customer.

Archived

Select whether the customer is archived.

Custom Fields

Add the custom fields and their values. For example, address.

[Note] Note

To update the custom field for a customer, you must first get the custom field’s UUID and use that to replace field_uuid.

Import a Message as a Customer

Imports a post into your account as if the customer sent an SMS to your account.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Phone Number

Select or map the phone number of the contact whose conversation message you want to retrieve. For example, (222) 222-2222

Body

Enter (map) the message text.

Group UUID

Select or map the Group UUID to which the contact belongs.

Agents

See Setting Up Textline Webhooks to add the webhooks in your Textline account.

Watch Agent Status

Triggers when an agent’s status has been changed.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Search Agents

Searches for agents or lists them all.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Agent UUID

Select or map the Agent UUID whose details you want to list.

Email

Enter (map) the email address to list the agents that match the specified email address.

Limit

Set the maximum number of agents Boost.space Integrator should return during one execution cycle.

Update Agent Status

Updates an agent’s status.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Agent UUID

Select or map the Agent UUID whose status you want to update.

Available

Select the checkbox to make the agent status to available.

Conversations

See Setting Up Textline Webhooks to add the webhooks in your Textline account.

Watch Customer Posts

Triggers when a message from a customer has been received.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Watch Outbound Messages

Triggers when an outbound message has been sent.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Watch Conversation Status

Triggers when a conversation status has been changed.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Watch Whisper

Triggers when a whisper from an agent has been received.

Webhook Name

Enter a name for the webhook.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Message a Phone Number

Sends an outbound message to a phone number.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Phone Number

Enter (map) the phone number to which you want to send the message.

Body

Enter (map) the message text you want to send.

Resolve

Select the checkbox to resolve the message text after sending the message.

Group UUID

Select or map the Group UUID of the department from which you want to retrieve conversations. If you are not using a department UUID then the message will go out on your first department.

Attachments

Add the URL addresses of the attachments which you want to attach to the message.

Message a Conversation

Sends an outbound message to a conversation.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Conversation UUID

Select or map the Conversation UUID you want to message.

Body

Enter (map) the message text you want to send.

Resolve

Select the checkbox to resolve the message text after sending the message.

Attachments

Add the URL addresses of the attachments which you want to attach to the message.

Surveys

Send a Survey

Sends a new survey.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Survey UUID

Select or map the Survey UUID you want to send.

Selection Type

Select or map the option to send the survey:

  • Phone Numbers

  • Saved Searches

  • Tags

Tags

Add the survey tags separated by a comma.

Phone Numbers

Add the phone number of the contacts to whom you want to send the survey.

Saved Search UUID

Enter (map) the saved Search UUID to whom you want to send the survey.

Announcements

Send an Announcement

Sends an announcement to a group of contacts.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

Selection Type

Select or map the option to send the announcement:

  • Phone Numbers

  • Saved Searches

  • Tags

Tags

Add the tags of the contact separated by a comma to send the announcement that matches the specified tag.

Phone Numbers

Add the phone number of the contacts to whom you want to send the announcement.

Group UUID

Select or map the Group UUID to whose contact you want to send the announcement.

Comment Body

Enter (map) the announcement text.

Title

Enter (map) a title for the announcement.

Resolve on Send

A true/false value to set whether the conversation opened after an announcement is sent should be resolved. This does not affect conversations open before the announcement is sent.

Assignment Target UUID

Enter (map) the UUID of the agent that should be assigned any conversations created (and opened) as a result of the announcement.

Reply Window Value

Enter (map) time in seconds after which any message sent in by the contact should be considered a reply to the announcement.

Reply Assignment Target UUID

Select or map the UUID of the agent that should be assigned any conversations opened as a result of a contact replying to the announcement.

Other

Make an API Call

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection

Establish a connection to your Textline account.

URL

Enter a path relative to https://application.textline.com/api For example: /organizations.json

[Note] Note

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Textline API Documentation.

Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET to retrieve information for an entry.

POST to create a new entry.

PUT to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH to make a partial entry update.

DELETE to delete an entry.

Headers

Enter the desired request headers. You don’t have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.

Query String

Enter the request query string.

Body

Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use – List Surveys

The following API call returns all the surveys from your Textline account:

URL: /surveys.json

Method: GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module’s Output under Bundle > Body > data. In our example, 2 surveys were returned:

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Setting Up Textline Webhooks

1. Open any Watch module, establish a connection and copy the URL address to your clipboard. Click OKand save the trigger.

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2. Log in to your Textline account.

3. Click Settings > Tools & Integrations > Developer API > New Webhook.

4. Enter the following details:

  • Type: Select the type of event you want to watch

  • URL: Enter (map) the URL address copied in step 1

  • Method: Select the HTTPS request method.

5. Click Save.

The webhook is successfully set up. Go back to Boost.space Integrator and run the scenario module to receive triggers when the specified event occurs.