Marketing Cloud How to preview SMS?

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When I try to select a contact to preview SMS, there’s no available data extension showing up.
How to preview the SMS?

When you are in SMS Subscriber preview mode, you may find there's no data extension available for preview. How to preview SMS?
When you are in SMS Subscriber preview mode, you may find there’s no data extension available for preview. How to preview SMS?

Step to preview SMS content with data extension

In order to preview the SMS with the selected contact, the key is to add the field Locale with type Locale into your data extension.

Here are the steps:

  1. Add Locale to your data extension with type Locale. (key steps)
Add Locale Column with type Locale io order to show up in the Subscriber preview page
Add Locale Column with type Locale io order to show up in the Subscriber preview page
  1. Browse to your SMS Subscriber preview mode, you can find the data extension showing up. You now can choose a contact and preview the SMS content.
Now you can select the target data extension and preview!
Now you can select the target data extension and preview!

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