Answers.Body: <p>You could schedule a bulk sms mailing (not send immediately), and then go into the database and change two values.</p>
  
  <p>In the table civicrm_mailing, set the value 0 (from 1) on the fields url_tracking and open_tracking</p>
  
  <p>Then you could send (or wait until the scheduled time is met)</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>My preferred solution is to use this extension (which should be 4.4 compatible) rather than manually digging around the database. Hope that helps!</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/PalanteJon/coop.palantetech.nosmsurltracking" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/PalanteJon/coop.palantetech.nosmsurltracking</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: @Flying I wrote this extension!  If it does NOT work on 4.4, please open an issue with the error message on its Github page.
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Answers.Text: @JonG I have not seen this extension, sounds perfect. Have you tried to have it in core for newer versions? However, I do think it is a bit too much to install an extension just for this, as I am concerned for the overhead costs of having too many extensions running...
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Answers.Text: @Flying Extensions add relatively little overhead.  However, if you'd like to submit this as a patch to core, please do so!
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Answers.Body: <p>Disable tracking!</p>
  
  <p>Need to add another 13 chars to sub answer...</p>
  
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Answers.Text: But you cannot disable tracking for bulk sms. At least not on 4.4
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Body: <p>When I send out a bulk sms with an URL, the URL is changed before it is sent out.</p>
  
  <p>Original message in template:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Hi John! Check out this link: wikipedia.org/somethingfunny</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Received message on phone:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Hi John! Check out this link: <a href="https://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=43&amp;qid=70242" rel="nofollow">https://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=43&amp;qid=70242</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>How to make CiviCRM not change this?</p>
  
Tags: <sms><civisms>
Title: Bulk sms is changing my URL
ThreadText: # Bulk sms is changing my URL
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-30)
  
  When I send out a bulk sms with an URL, the URL is changed before it is sent out.
  
  Original message in template:
  
  * Hi John! Check out this link: wikipedia.org/somethingfunny
  
  Received message on phone:
  
  * Hi John! Check out this link: <https://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=43&qid=70242>
  
  How to make CiviCRM not change this?
  
  **Tags:** sms, civisms
  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2016-09-30. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  You could schedule a bulk sms mailing (not send immediately), and then go into the database and change two values.
  
  In the table civicrm\_mailing, set the value 0 (from 1) on the fields url\_tracking and open\_tracking
  
  Then you could send (or wait until the scheduled time is met)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Ah that is a nice hack  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-10-03. Score: 2
  
  My preferred solution is to use this extension (which should be 4.4 compatible) rather than manually digging around the database. Hope that helps!
  
  <https://github.com/PalanteJon/coop.palantetech.nosmsurltracking>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: @username_0 I wrote this extension!  If it does NOT work on 4.4, please open an issue with the error message on its Github page.  
  > **username_0**: @JonG I have not seen this extension, sounds perfect. Have you tried to have it in core for newer versions? However, I do think it is a bit too much to install an extension just for this, as I am concerned for the overhead costs of having too many extensions running...  
  > **username_2**: @JonG Sorry, had looked at the info.xml file and it said it was compatible with 4.4  
  > **username_3**: @username_0 Extensions add relatively little overhead.  However, if you'd like to submit this as a patch to core, please do so!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2016-09-30. Score: 0
  
  Disable tracking!
  
  Need to add another 13 chars to sub answer...
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: But you cannot disable tracking for bulk sms. At least not on 4.4  
  
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