Nexmo Actions

Actions are the operations (or API operations) that you can perform on Nexmo.

You can simply drag & drop attributes from input trigger, derive values using formulas or constants that you may wish to map with Nexmo.

All of the actions that you see below automate the flows you execute manually on Nexmo.

As shown below, you can Create Call or Send SMS in your Nexmo application based on response to a trigger event.

Figure 1. Action for Nexmo Application on Connect iPaaS

Setting up Nexmo action in your workflow

The following sections will further explain what you need to configure when creating a call or sending a text message using Nexmo.

Create Call

After selecting the action type as "Create Call" as shown in Figure 1, you will need to configure how and when calls are made.

Figure 2. Setting up Nexmo action Create Call on Connect iPaaS

Parameters	Description
From Number	Nexmo virtual number that will make the call. You can select your number from the dropdown list of your rented virtual Nexmo phone numbers
To	Nexmo number that you would like the call to be sent to
Text	This is the what Nexmo's text-to-voice will read from, in order to create the voice call
Voice Gender	Male or Female voice
Voice Name	Accent and Language of the playback message

Send SMS

After selecting the action as "Send SMS" as shown in Figure 1, you will need to configure how the SMS message will be sent using the following parameters.

Figure 3. Setting up Nexmo action Send SMSl on Connect iPaaS

Parameters	Description
From Number	Your Nexmo virtual number that the SMS message will be sent from. You can select this number from the drop down list of your already rented virtual Nexmo numbers.
To	The number you would like to send the SMS message to.
Text	The actual text message that you want to send over SMS.