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NMPAGE Method

The NMPAGE program provides a means for NMFIND to contact someone with a TAP alphanumeric or numeric pager. NMPAGE only communicates with TAP alphanumeric pager services. Therefore, you can only use NMPAGE to page a numeric pager if that pager is reachable with an alphanumeric pager service. You cannot call NMPAGE directly; rather, you must install it as the invocation string for a method in your Notification Manager database and use NMFIND to invoke it.

Specify the following items when defining a method that uses NMPAGE:

• The invocation string is NMPAGE.
• NMPAGE supports only the TELL parameter of NMFIND. For this reason, you must choose to make any method that invokes this program support only the TELL parameter.

As mentioned previously, NMPAGE supports the TELL parameter of NMFIND, but it does not support the ASK parameter of NMFIND (it can be used only as a TELL method). The text sent to a numeric pager is simply the phone number on which to call in and the item number. The text sent to an alphanumeric pager is the phone number on which to call in, the item number, and some or all the text of the TELL message.

Define the following parameters for any method that uses NMPAGE as its invocation string. If a parameter is marked as “required,” you must define it as a parameter for the method. If a parameter is not required, you do not need to define it in the database. If you do not define the parameter, the default value is to be used whenever the method is invoked. Remember, you cannot set a value for a parameter at the entity or time-block level (that is, override the default value) if you do not define the parameter at the method level.

The following table lists the method parameters that are stored in the Notification Manager database for each NMPAGE method definition: