# 122. Automatically send SMS alerts for employees’ sick leave updates

**URL:** <https://community.triggre.com/t/122-automatically-send-sms-alerts-for-employees-sick-leave-updates/898>\
**Category:** Weekend masterclass\
**Tags:** templates, human-resources\
**Created:** [June 13, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://community.triggre.com/t/122-automatically-send-sms-alerts-for-employees-sick-leave-updates/898 "2025-06-13T07:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marta](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.triggre.com/marta/32/87_2.png) [@Marta](https://community.triggre.com/u/Marta)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 7:25am UTC](https://community.triggre.com/t/122-automatically-send-sms-alerts-for-employees-sick-leave-updates/898/1 "2025-06-13T07:25:06Z")

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In this episode of Triggre Weekend Masterclass, Eddie shows you how to extend “Patty Portal”, our free self-service employee portal template, by automatically sending SMS alerts for sick leave updates. In the previous tutorial, we added a system for reporting sick leave to the portal. This extension builds on that by automatically sending supervisors an SMS in addition to the email whenever a sick leave update is submitted. The SMS is sent by CC’ing the existing email to an SMS provider’s email-to-text address, which then delivers it as a text message — no API required. We used ClickSend for this example.

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/triggre/original/1X/bce003cebd975185555c67cdd256a3d6782c1e52.jpeg "Automatically send SMS alerts for employees’ sick leave updates | Triggre Weekend Masterclass") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbtcufxvR5c)