Add "trigger notification" button to appointments

[dkundel]

It would be great if you could send a notification manually by pressing a "trigger notification" button

[Lewiscowles1986]

Question: would this work out the difference between now and the appointment time, and then queue immediately / soon?

I have a fix which should work for this which is to take the minutes between now and the time, and then store that instead of 5, 10, 15 etc.

• It would stop it sending now and then again in {X} minutes / days etc
• It would not be instant. I'd like to set it to the time the button is clicked + 1 minute, which I think is enough to be safe.
• Because it mutates data, it means you could force a message to be sent twice without some form of UI or backend guard to ensure the notification has not already been sent.
• Alternatives would be not modifying the data, but the schema to account for a log of when sent separate to scheduled to send.
  • At that point, how much of a sample is it, and how much of an application is it?
  • Like OpenVBX, would it rot? 😢

[dkundel]

I'm open on the implementation. The problem with as largely that for people who want to quickly test the customer experience it was annoying to wait for a long time.

As for OpenVBX, we'll try to keep this and new sample apps as up-to-date as possible. These samples all aim at helping you to get started. But they will not be full fledged apps like OpenVBX or products like Flex. Instead we'll have a sample app per use case and host them on twilio.com/code-exchange.

That said we always love contributions :)

[Lewiscowles1986]

I'm open on the implementation. The problem with as largely that for people who want to quickly test the customer experience it was annoying to wait for a long time.

In that case is it closable by the #34 because that allows 2 minute before time? No work is the best work

Ignore my salt RE: OpenVBX. It's still very cool and much thanks for Twilio's great devrel content and docs 🏆.