Broadcasting reminder messages

(Mayank Sharma) #1

Hi @johnjackson & @sarahpalombo,

I need your help to understand, is there any way to create a broadcast where i would be able to broadcast reminding messages in Fb messenger & e-mail from google sheet.
Eg: when some one schedules his appointment at 12 pm tomorrow,i want my bot to broadcast a reminder message to the person 3 hours or at some specific time to remind him that he has an appointment booked today.

Thanks in advance
mayank

(Sarah Palombo) #2

Sure :+1:

​​After the bot user has chosen their appointment, how about using the Wait Service where you can use the wait until a date.
​(just use the XO icon to insert an output that you’ve collected earlier in the flow i.e their appointment date)

​You can also offset this date using {{appointment date}} -3h which would then trigger the next task 3 hours before the time. You’ll just need to reference the recognised date/time.
​The flow will wait until this date & time before moving on to the next task.

​I don’t think you need to use the broadcast here as each user has a different date it will cleverly wait based on the date and time.

​Does that work :blush:? or do you only hold the appointment dates in a google sheet? - That wouldn’t change much except using a Google Sheet trigger then waiting until the date before you send a message or an email

Hope that helps :+1:

Sarah