We are having some trouble with receiving scheduled surveys via text using Twilio and are unsure whether it is an issue with the logic we are using to send out the texts or an issue receiving the texts. Below, I attached a screenshot of the survey invitation log. The current settings that we are using for the automated survey invitations appear to be working here, as we can see the scheduled invitations in the survey invitation log. However, we are not receiving these scheduled texts. Because they are not actually being sent out, they are not showing up when I click “view past invitations” and no error messages are showing up for those that were sent. I also attached a screenshot of the automated survey invitation settings we were hoping to use. We will be sending out this survey every day for 49 days, changing the datediff function to the respective number of days. Does anyone have advice on where we may be going wrong (e.g., if logic won’t work in step 3 or if this is a Twilio issue)?
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I'm using the "incoming webhooks" feature of Slack to post notifications to a channel. I'm also using the "icon_emoji" feature to decorate the messages and to highlight the different types of messages. However I find that the image doesn't show up consistently:
Ie. only when it says BOT does the image also show up.
Any ideas what the issue is? Ideally I would like for the image to show up each message so that they can be scanned easily (some messages are more informative and others need to be acted upon in a timely manner).
Slack is automatically consolidating consecutive messages that are sent within a certain time frame. So the bot icon will show for the first message only and consecutive messages will display beneath the first without the bot icon.
This is standard behavior of Slack and works the same for user messages. Don't believe there is any way to turn that off.
I'm looking to have a user type something like
/makemeeting today # 4:00pm
this fires a outgoing webhook, which stores the info, then it fires a incoming webhook which would display a message in a channel saying meeting scheduled, and have two links
yes | no
Here's where I'm stuck. I can do everything up till this point. I'd love for any user to be able to click on one of those links and have it perform another outgoing webhook with the proper response.
I know I can just make those links point to a website, but I'd love to keep it all within slack without having to open a browser.
Is this possible? I swear I've seen yes|no, true|false replies before in other commands and bots, but I might be imagining that.
Any help would be appreciated...
thanks
This isn't supported yet but is on Slack's roadmap for the "near term".
https://trello.com/c/DVrJLbxX/12-interactive-messages
A work around is to add reactions to your message. When the user clicks the reaction (to bump up its count), an RTM event will be dispatched for you to handle: https://api.slack.com/events/reaction_added
An live example can be seen with the Meekan calendar app: https://meekan.com/slack/
So you could have two reactions: thumbs up and a thumbs down. And handle which reaction the user clicked.
so I'm developing an application where a user might get a notification based on some action but I only want the user to receive one notification of a specific type. An example might illustrate this better:
Say a user on facebook makes a facebook post. If someone likes the post they'll get a notification. However, if 20 different people like that post I don't want 20 separate notifications when they finally check their phone. I want one notification that says '20 people have liked your post.' I also only want to track the new notifications. Say 20 people have liked your post. I don't want the notification for the next 5 who've liked your post to be '25 people have liked your post.' I want it to be '5 new people have liked your post.'
What I don't know how to do is delete a notification that got sent using Parse. An idea I thought of off the top of my head for recording new posts was to keep track of what the user has seen for that post but that seems silly. It's a large amount of data to keep track of, compared to querying for a previous notification to that user for that channel (is that possible?).
Anyways, I was hoping other users of Parse using push notifications might've faced this problem and how you all might've gotten around it. I would like to implement my own backend but I don't have the expertise and I'm currently focused on the client side. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The thing is, you have don't have the control to cancel a Push Notification. However, you do have a control when to send even how to send it. If you want to implement something like you say, you have to do custom works on that. You might observe a period of time like 2-3 minutes whether there are more than for example 10 notifications you want to send. If so, send one instead.
Before iOS 8, Push Notification did have so many limitations like we can not have our own custom action. But now, I think Apple will let us do more as time goes by.
This might not be the best way but here's how I plan on implementing the feature. I'm going to add a notifications array to the user ([Notification objects]), this will also allow me to query for notifications for a possible notifications page. Say this were facebook and the user gets a new like notification on a post (1 like total).
I will create a new notification object and add it to the User object's notifications array with properties 'seen' set to false, 'prevNotificationLikes' set to 1, and then send out a notification. The message will be generic for singular/plural #'s of likes.
If someone else likes the post before the user responded to the push notification, I will see that the user hasn't 'seen' (false) the first notification and I will not send out a new notification.
Say 19 people like the post and then the user checks the initial notification and sets the 'seen' property to true. The next notification check on the cloud code for the 21st like will query to see if there are any previous notifications for that post/user. Parse cloud will then find a corresponding notification for that post/like where prevNotificationLikes is equal to 1 and update that number to 21. If the 'seen' property is set to true, then it'll send out a notification '20 new people have liked your post.' I know that the notifications are sent 1 step late with the fact that the user probably already knows that 19 people have liked the post but it'll be a compromise to get the job done.
Any critique is welcome. Sorry for wall of text instead of code. I'm just writing out my idea before writing the code so that I have something to follow along.
How do I set limit for how many times mandrill webhook can be triggered? I need to trigger click event only once per email. So if someone clicks 100 times, webhook sends POST request only for the first click.
Mandrill will always send on each occasion. It is up to the receiving application to decide what to do with the webhook content.
On a simple level you could record the details of the request in a database using the message ID as a reference, the next time you receive the same information and know it has already been read, you can ignore the duplicate "read" event.
If you are having issues with excessive load due to the quantity of data via webhooks, you can set different URLs per hook type (send, open, click, spam, reject etc).
More information can be found here. http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21738186-Introduction-to-Webhooks
I am working with a calendar and scheduling application. The requirements are to work in Notes and on Blackberry devices. Currently when I do a send using a NotesDocument, it works fine for the first meeting send on all. However, if you update the meeting, it only sends a correct message to the Notes client. The Blackberry will receive a rich text only e-mail. All MIMEs are correct in sending as well.
Changing this to send using NotesUIDocument will work fine for all instances on the Blackberry but, in Notes gives the error:
Part or all of this meeting is already on your calendar. You must decline those entries first before processing this notice.
I'm kind of at a loss here because what works in one won't work in the other. I am using Notes 8.5.1 and BES 5.0.2. Any help is really appreciated.
Have you considered using a MailOptions field (computed to itself and set via code) to control a send on UI save? That's how mailing works reliably with web apps -- it seems to invoke some voodoo to which I am not privy to add all of the jots and tittles to the right messages to the right parts of the system.