Publishing a Text Message

Scenarios

After you publish a text message to a topic, SMN will deliver the message to all confirmed subscription endpoints in the topic.

Prerequisites

Subscribers in the topic must have confirmed the subscription, or they will not be able to receive any messages.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.

  2. Click image1 on the upper left to select the desired region and project.

  3. Under the Application service category, select Simple Message Notification.

    The SMN console is displayed.

  4. In the navigation pane, choose Topics.

    The Topics page is displayed.

  5. In the topic list, locate the topic that you need to publish a message to and click Publish Message in the Operation column.

  6. Configure the required parameters based on Table 1.

    The topic name is provided by default and cannot be changed.

    Table 1 Parameter descriptions

    Parameter

    Description

    Subject

    (Optional) The message subject must be fewer than 512 bytes.

    Message Format

    The message format can be Text, JSON, or Template. In this context, select Text.

    Message

    This is the message content, which cannot be left blank nor exceed 256 KB.

    **Figure 1** Text message example

    Figure 1 Text message example

  7. Click OK.

    SMN delivers your message to all subscription endpoints. For details about the messages received by each endpoint, see Messages Using Different Protocols.