SMS/Text Voting Solution for MS Smartphone released
September 16, 2005 [MS Smartphone] | By Edward J. R.
Dave Glover, an employee of Microsoft Australia, has published, together with source code, an application for MS Smartphone for voting over SMS.
After My DVD for MS Smartphone this is another quite usable sample program for this platform made by Microsoft employees... and interestingly both these programs use SQL Mobile 2005 engine as data storage...
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The Solution is split in to two parts:-
- The SMS Vote Monitor - It shows the current list of polls defines and their status and number of votes received since started
- The SMS Vote Manager - It allows you to define the polls and allows simple on device reporting and exporting of data.
The SMS Vote Manager provides the following functions:-
- Validates an SMS Vote
- Checks that a vote is for a valid poll, that the poll is open.
- Checks that a vote has a valid score – defined in the vote manager
- Implements
- First Vote Wins: If a voter votes multiple times for a poll only the FIRST vote sent by a voter is recorded, all other votes from the same voter (mobile number) are ignored. This is good for competitions
- Last Vote Wins: If a voter votes multiple times for a poll only the LAST vote sent by a voter is recorded. This is good for an evaluation vote where someone may have changed their mind.
- Multiple Votes Allowed: All votes are recorded. Good when may want to allow voters to vote for multiple criteria on a Poll.
- Writes the Vote to SQL Mobile 2005
- If logging is enabled then it will log any invalid votes
- Displays a tally of the votes received since the app was started
- Shows the Poll Status – if Open then you will see the score validator eg [YN], [1-5] etc. If the poll is closed it says closed. If the poll is closed after receiving a number of votes then the vote count is followed by the letter ‘C’.
- Toggle the Polls Open/Closed status – by double tapping the corresponding key on the numeric key pad of the poll in question.
- Send test vote messages to test polls
- If Test Buttons are enabled – see SMSVoter Config in the SMS Vote Manager app then.
- Up/Down buttons selects one of the pre configured test phone numbers
- Left/Right Buttons select the Poll and the test set of scores for the poll that you want to send
- Double pressing the Enter button starts the sending of test SMS Messages
- General status info – eg the number of invalid votes received etc.
- If the SMS Monitor is running while you are configuring your Polls then from the SMS Vote Monitor select Options then “Reload Poll Data”.
- A bit of help
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To learn more click here. CAB files of this application can be downloaded directly here.
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