Group Whatsapp

[desmond_lee]

Hello There

Is it possible to send group whatsapp in appsheet ? I only know this but this is only one phone number. Concatenate("https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=",Encodeurl([CONTACT NUMBER]),"&text=",Encodeurl(CONCATENATE("*HI", " ", [EMPLOYEE NAME], ",")))

[WillowMobileSys]

I am not familiar with Whatsapp and what they allow.  You can review the Whatsapp API to see if they have a method that allows sending of multiple phone numbers in a single request to Whatsapp.  

Whatsapp API

But even if they do not, you can build a Bot in AppSheet that send messages to a set of people.  There are two ways:

1)  Create a Scheduled Bot that identifies all the people that need a message and then the Bot step sends to each person one by one.

2)  Update a user Table row that a message needs sent.  A Bot picks up that user row change and sends the message.  Each user row that is updated in this way triggers the message Bot.

[desmond_lee]

I choose option 2 but it looks like there is no feature for whatsapp API. The action in the whatsapp is not regconise as action in the BOT

[desmond_lee]

I found the way to do it in option 2 but if there is 100 contact I need to create this 100 times. I think this is not practical. The API is only detect either a newly added row or a schedule. This is an emergency msg so schedule is out of the question. Pably.com can do a group msg. WhatsApp already responded me this is out of their scope.