Trying to share a calendar event over SMS. The text contains the datetime of the event, which iOS picks up as a link, which opens iCal (Create Event, Create Reminder, Show in Calendar, Copy Event).
When a user taps "Create Event" - it just creates an empty cal event for the datetime. Is there a way to auto-fill the event with details when the users taps "Create Event"? Perhaps through deeplinking a URL or similar?
The behaviour you describe is iphone ios doing some natural language processing and recognising that 'hey that looks like a date or time and location'. When you click on the text, it will offer to create the event but one still has to fill in the rest of the details. It is not yet clever enough to work out the Event subject, and may not be that good at it if it tried.
There is a term 'Rich Media Messaging'(RMM) which aims to get past the limitations of the basic sms (short message system). This is hard if one is looking for universal phone and phone provider support as not all phones do multi media messaging. RMM appears to basically be a combination of multi media messages and short links. So basically there is no 'markup' for simple text messaging.
The only reliable universally acceptable way to 'text' an event via sms, an event with full details that would be recognised by all smart phones is via a link to an ics file. As the standard SMS length is only 160 characters and most hyperlinks are pretty long (usually between 40 to 100 characters), they can eat up necessary space in your message. Unicode characters could use that up quicker, so a user friendly short link might be best.
The ics file has all the info to pass to the system:
the text/calendar mime type tells the system it's got events inside so pass the file to the calendar app
then the contents of the ics file inform the calendar app of all the bits of the event as per the RFC5545.
For demonstration, I texted the "5 May yoga" single event link from this page https://test.icalevents.com/agenda/ to a phone. That ics file only contains a single event.
When one clicks on the link in the text message, the smartphone does as described above and suggests to create an event. This method has the benefit that one could perhaps track the clicks to the short link.
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I am trying to create a teams app that will detect the message that user has typed in before the message is sent on clicking the send button or on the send button click event or before the recipient receives the message. The idea is to read the message and using AI grammatically correct the text or detect if any inappropriate message is being sent that violets office rules, kind of like Grammarly. My question is it possible to detect this text through any possible means like graph api. i am open to any suggestion, not just teams app it can be some kind of windows application that can interact with teams app . Will be taking care of AI part myself.
This isn't supported, there is no No event when user is typing message. You can get an event when user sends the message. For more info here
In SAP Marketing, I have the standard template for SMS messages in Content Studio.
I want to insert a link in TEXT-block of this template and send it via SMS, but there's a problem: for TEXT-block, there are no properties active that are necessary, except of "Insert Attribute". I can't find "Insert Link" attribute.
SMS Template in Content Studio (What I have now):
I want to have this result in the end because there's a property which makes it possible to insert a link in TEXT-block:
Instead of emails, where you send HTML, SMS contain simple text.
If you click on the link-button in emails, the editor inserts an HTML-element:
LINK TEXT
But luckily, most of the smartphones are highlighting links without you have to mark it as a link.
This is very similar to what happens with phone numbers or dates in SMS.
So you just have to paste in your link and you are fine.
Here you see how my iPhone renders an SMS from my provider informing me about my left data volume: nothing. :-(
My application (a DMS client) has strong ties to Microsoft technology, so my customers are on average much more likely to run Outlook for iOS than the default iOS Mail client.
However, Outlook does not respond to the MFMailComposeViewController, so that basically leaves two approaches on the table for sending email from the app:
Use the msoutlook:// URL scheme to open Outlook. This supports pre-populating recipients, subject, and a HTML styled body text, apparently without a maximum length. However, it does not seem to support attachments.
Use the UIActivityViewController (i.e. the "sharing" interface), which does allow for attachments (hurray!), but I don't know if it's possible to pre-populate any of the fields other than the content...and the sharing dialog itself is really unpleasant UI, interrupting the user flow with a complex choice.
Word (for iOS) presents the user with the following flow that directly opens a document as an attachment to a new email in Outlook. Assuming they don't use any private APIs, how are they doing that?
I have been looking for a way to send a hyperlink of a URL with a different appearance to a mobile phone via SMS or MMS.
The only example of this that i can think of is the following:
[url=http://www.google.co.uk]Click Here[/url]
So the above code will show:
Click Here
when you click the 'Click Here' link it will open up http://www.google.co.uk.
Is there anyway that this can be replicated by using SMS or MMS?
As far as I know, there is not a generally accepted specification for rendering text messages with modern content. Though certain mobile operating systems (or rather messaging applications to be precise) might support inline links, it is not fail-proof and it won't work on every device.
Also, those smart-ish applications would not rely on a custom syntax but rather search for urls and make those clickable. That means it's not possible to set a custom text for a hyperlink in this context.
You can´t include hiperlinks in text messages, although most mobile browsers allow click in links. Also You could send a wap push (it´s a special binary sms) that it includes one link.
I am developing on BlackBerry 4.7 Storm device.
Reminder:
My application will allow user to enter data and set Date&Time to remind the notes. Can someone please suggest me how do i handle "reminder with some small description" at that particular Date&Time? What API or code should i use to handle reminder alarm?
I also want to add recurrence in this reminder, so that it will remind based on the available recurrence. Does recurrence and reminder API supported in BB?
It should do the following features:
1. Remind Birthday whenever it occurs(i am stroring that particular user DateOfBirth in my app persistent). It can show in alert or dialog with a smal description message. Reminder alert should be able to show even my app is not launched(opened).
Reminder should handle recurrence. If there is a recurrence enabled for that particular DateOfBirth reminder, then reminder alarm should be able to handle recurrence feature.
SMS:
If i want to develop my application, which will be able to send SMS with predefined text automatically in the background to the particular number, how to do that? Is it possible, (or) my app will allow user to click "Send" kind of button which will take user to built-in SMS app and allow to send?
Please give me some link (or) sample source to have a look?
Thank you.
You can use Alert and Dialog notifications for reminder.
Yes, it's possible to open sms application, see this article:
Sending and receiving GSM SMS on Blackberry using RIM APIs
UPDATE
I don't know about reminders API in BlackBerry.
To show reminder without having your app running, you can try PushRegistry class, although you'll have to create some MIDlet to show this reminder message:
BlackBerry PushRegistry How-To
BB KB How To - Register a MIDlet with the PushRegistry
BB KB How To - Create an auto-start MIDlet using the PushRegistry
BB KB How To - Create an auto-start MIDlet
Using PushRegistry with SMS Communication
I don't know if I've understood your question well but here is answer according to what I've got.
You can use J2ME PIMs library which is personal information management system BB also implements PIM in its API. It is up to you which you want to use. BB deals with three stuff.
ToDO list, Event(Calander) and contacts. From this API you can attach a listener or anything to it.
Just google PIM api JME and Blackberry you will found thousands of examples