SNS Publish Activity

The SNS Publish activity can be used to publish a message to an existing Amazon SNS topic. You can send an SMS directly to a mobile phone. You can also use this activity to send a message directly to a mobile endpoint.

Settings

On the Settings tab, configure the following settings:

Field Type Required Default Value Description
AWS Connection Name Connector Yes None AWS connection to create the session and perform various operations.
Message Type Drop-down Yes None The type of the message to be published by the activity.
You can choose the type of the message from the following options:
  • Plain Text
  • Custom or Platform Specific

Input

The Input element on the Input tab displays the input schema of the activity as a tree structure. The input values vary depending on the configurations selected on the Settings tab. On the Input tab, you can specify the following information:
Field Required Description
Message Yes The message you want to send to an Amazon SNS topic.
MessageAttributes No User-defined message attributes that are used to filter the messages.
PhoneNumber No The phone number to which you want to send an SMS message. The phone number must be in E.164 international telephone number format. If you do not specify a value for the PhoneNumber parameter, you must specify a value for the TargetArn or TopicArn parameter.
Subject No The subject line when the message is delivered to an email endpoint.
TargetArn No To publish the message to a mobile endpoint like a kindle device or a mobile phone, you must specify the EndpointArn for the TargetArn parameter. If you do not specify a value for the TargetArn parameter, you must specify a value for the PhoneNumber or TopicArn parameter.
TopicArn No The topic to which you want to publish a message. If you do not specify a value for the TopicArn parameter, you must specify a value for the PhoneNumber or TargetArn parameter.

Output

The Output tab displays the output schema of the activity as a tree structure. The output is read-only. The properties that are displayed in the schema correspond to the output of this activity and can be used as input by subsequent activities in the flow. The output of the activity is static and contains only the generated message ID.

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