# Custom SMS & Phone Message error

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-sms-phone-message-error/31970>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-sms-phone-message-error/31970 "2020-02-05T22:09:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmohr623](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cmohr623](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cmohr623)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-sms-phone-message-error/31970/1 "2020-02-05T22:09:40Z")

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In version 7.9 I had created custom SMS and voice notification messages. After upgrading to 8.0 I had to revise ALL of those messages to include the concat( instruction to build the messages using strings and parameters. This was a very tedious proces, but I thought it was completed.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. When I get an actual voice notification, the message is not evaluating the {Timestamp} alarm parameter into hours:minutes:seconds, but rather saying the numerical values. How do I fix this?

Thanks!  
Christian