Python-powered chat apps with Twilio and SendGrid Transcripts
Chapter: Messaging and workflows with Twilio Studio
Lecture: Twilio dashboard

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0:00 To begin building our application. We're going to start over on twilio.com,
0:04 and you need to create an account.
0:06 It's free, but you have to set one up, since I've already logged in.
0:09 If I click log in, it takes me straight to the Twilio dashboard.
0:13 And over here there's a couple of things you can use to manage your account and
0:17 notice. I have a few things that are stuck to the side that might not
0:20 show up in yours. So the first thing that we want to do is actually
0:24 find the relevant sections because there's many things you can do over here in the twilio
0:28 dashboard, and we want to pin those, so we can just quickly jump around them
0:32 and not get distracted with other stuff.
0:34 So if you expand this out,
0:35 what we want to do is we're gonna pin programmable messaging.
0:38 Just click that so we we pin that one.
0:43 If you scroll down, we're going to use the studio to develop our workflow and
0:47 our message exchange. Once we've done,
0:49 those two things should have them pinned on the left.
0:53 In the messaging Section though does a little information about what's been going on.
0:58 A few errors we may have had potentially as we're developing our application,
1:03 Now the part that's going to be relevant for this course is under the try it out
1:07 section and we can do SMS text messages.
1:10 But we're going to do whatsApp. Now
1:13 In order to use WhatsApp, you have to set up your account.
1:17 You have to come over here and you have a unique joint code for this number
1:22 here. What you need to do is find that code and text it to this
1:26 number you can see down here.
1:27 It says your sandbox for a particular WhatsApp account is valid for three days and worked
1:33 on it for a while. It's going to expire,
1:34 and you have to come back and reactivate it with this same code.
1:37 So it says, we're waiting for you to send a message.
1:40 Let's go and do that. Now you saw I was already working with this earlier
1:45 so it's actually okay, but just to take you through the workflow,
1:48 I'm going to send that message here, as it's fantastic.
1:53 You're all set. You can now send and receive to this particular message.
1:57 You can reply Stop to make it stop or if you wait too long,
2:01 it's going to expire, right,
2:02 So now we're going to be able to interact with this.
2:05 As we develop our application through our WhatsApp account,
2:09 you'll notice here that I'm using WhatsApp the desktop version.
2:12 But of course, you can use it from your phone or your tablet or whatever
2:14 It doesn't really matter. The app you're using to send the WhatsApp messages.
2:19 And there it is. Message received.
2:21 So we've pinned are programmable messaging and we've set up our WhatsApp sandbox here.
2:27 The other thing that's interesting is studio,
2:29 which we pinned, and this is where we're going to build out our application, notice
2:33 It has our recent workflows.
2:36 This is the one I built ahead of time to show you what's going on.
2:39 We could delete it. It opened the logs and in the logs,
2:42 you'll actually see running workflow. So here's somebody who is partially through one of these
2:46 workflow conversations, and you can actually stop it to reset it.
2:51 But what we're gonna do is we'll go create a new one,
2:53 a cloud city one, that will build up through this entire course, so those are
2:57 the three things. Well, two things.
2:59 So we've got our dashboard, but we also need to pin programmable messaging and enable
3:03 our WhatsApp sandbox for our particular account.
3:06 And then we're going to use studio to create these workflows that orchestrate the messages that
3:11 come in from WhatsApp, interact with the various API's and send messages ultimately over to our Flask web app.