Storing phonenumbers

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Hi Devs!

I am wondering how to store phonenumbers.

Example:

Rwanda phone numbers are like this. +250783114729

Should I store 783114729, 250783114729 or +250783114729?

When I report data through the gateway DHIS2 recieves data on +250783114729 and maps it correctly to my user, but sends a message back on 250783114729 (without the ‘+’ sign) which does not map to my user.

I tried to send a message to myself on the MTN network and it does not accept a number without the ‘+’ sign before 250783114729.

-Kenneth

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Typically you should use 250783114729 in the user settings (i.e. with country code, but without +), but this doesn’t make much sense. We’ve talked so much about fixing this to something more consistent and understandable, but it hasn’t been done yet.

Lars

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2014-04-02 10:54 GMT+02:00 Kenneth Børtveit kenneth.bortveit@gmail.com:

Hi Devs!

I am wondering how to store phonenumbers.

Example:

Rwanda phone numbers are like this. +250783114729

Should I store 783114729, 250783114729 or +250783114729?

When I report data through the gateway DHIS2 recieves data on +250783114729 and maps it correctly to my user, but sends a message back on 250783114729 (without the ‘+’ sign) which does not map to my user.

I tried to send a message to myself on the MTN network and it does not accept a number without the ‘+’ sign before 250783114729.

-Kenneth

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Which gateway are you using to send messages?

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On 02. april 2014 10:54, Kenneth
Børtveit wrote:

Hi Devs!

I am wondering how to store phonenumbers.

Example:

Rwanda phone numbers are like this. +250783114729

Should I store 783114729, 250783114729 or +250783114729?

      When I report data through the gateway DHIS2 recieves data

on +250783114729 and maps it correctly to my user, but sends a
message back on 250783114729 (without the ‘+’ sign) which does
not map to my user.

      I tried to send a message to myself on the MTN network and

it does not accept a number without the ‘+’ sign before
250783114729.

-Kenneth

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I will use a ‘SMPP’ gateway, but for now I am using ‘Generic HTTP’ gateway.

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2014-04-02 12:53 GMT+02:00 Peder Andreas Nergaard andreasn@ifi.uio.no:

Which gateway are you using to send messages?

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  On 02. april 2014 10:54, Kenneth Børtveit wrote:

Hi Devs!

I am wondering how to store phonenumbers.

Example:

Rwanda phone numbers are like this. +250783114729

Should I store 783114729, 250783114729 or +250783114729?

      When I report data through the gateway DHIS2 recieves data on +250783114729 and maps it correctly to my user, but sends a message back on 250783114729 (without the '+' sign) which does not map to my user.

      I tried to send a message to myself on the MTN network and it does not accept a number without the '+' sign before 250783114729.

-Kenneth

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