I have been trying to get a well formatted text from zapier to send through twilio, the message should be send like this:
New patient!
Name
Phone Number
email#email.com
Contacting him ASAP!
Instead I'm receiving
New patient!NamePhone Numberemail!email.comContacting him ASAP!
How do I solve this?
David here, from the Zapier Platform team.
I got curious and tested it out. Wasn't able to reproduce your issue:
I just typed a regular "enter" for the newlines and also tried with your copied text. If it's still not working, can you update your question with screenshots of the zap input?
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im new to this form and joined because I use Twilio for my business and had no other place to go for help. Long story short, I sometimes use my Twilio number to send text messages to our customers regarding new products/updates - usually 500 - 1000 messages at a time (over the period of maybe once or twice a month).
Usually how I use Twilio is through ZAPIER, once a contact has a certain tag added from my CRM, I set it so that the tagged contacts will get a text message - it usually works but in May I've tried it several times and it hasn't worked at all.
So I switched to using Google sheets with the script feature of adding my Twilio information and tapping "send sms" on top (Today was the first time I used it). Initially it said all of the messages were sent, but when I checked my Twilio balance - it was relatively the same... so I dug deeper and checked my logs, I realized that all but 3 of the 550 text messages were "delivered" and only those three were received.
It seems like there is some type of issue, as its impossible that only 3 people would open a text message - I usually get a good amount of interest from these blasts.
When I used Zapier this month none of the messages would even get sent, so I'm not sure what's going on.
Has anyone dealt with anything like this? Please share! NOTE: Im a newbie here.
I would like to design the SMS referral link for a lead alerts application. (So the pro would receive the SMS message on their device with a link to click through to the job request details.) I'd like to make it secure and scalable. The link below arrives in the SMS as a shortened URL. That much I understand.
Porch.com does something similar and I'd like to know what the strategy is behind each segment in the URL (or your best estimation). Can someone help me understand?
Here is an example: (Thanks Porch.com)
https://porch.com/pro/project/3fd55669-d7cf-4655-892e-252080c34a79?c=50145918&email=12345#yahoo.com&referrerSource=sms
Twilio developer evangelist here.
First of all, this isn't really a question for Stack Overflow. This is a place for asking questions about code that doesn't work in order to get it to work.
Having said that, the more I looked at the URL as I was commenting on this question, the more I feel I worked out. This is my idea of what the URL is saying.
Here's the URL again: https://porch.com/pro/project/3fd55669-d7cf-4655-892e-252080c34a79?c=50145918&email=12345#yahoo.com&referrerSource=sms
The random string in the URL, 3fd55669-d7cf-4655-892e-252080c34a79, looks like it is the identifier for the project itself. It's long and random, like a uuid, so it would be hard to guess, but can uniquely identify the project.
The email is presumably the email address of the pro that the SMS was sent to, so that the return on sending SMS projects to them can be measured.
The referrerSource is then used to measure how each of their referring sources is performing.
The only parameter that is impossible to really guess at is the c. Removing it (in fact, removing any or all of the query parameters) didn't change the result of loading the page. This implies that it is just another tracking parameter.
Hope that helps.
I have posted this as, although I worked out the answer, I could not find anything about it in a Google/stackoverflow search. I hope it might help someone in the future.
My C# MVC app generates a link and emails it to the user. In the email the html is simply a link tag with the url used as the href and the link text.
In the email in Outlook the link displays as below:
http://mydomain.com/Foo/Bar?id=6***************
When you hover over the link it shows as
http://mydomain.com/Foo/Bar?id=6523054102058710
The numbers should always show, otherwise the user may be suspicious.
It turns out that the number I was generating was 16 digits, inadvertently the same as a credit/debit card number. This meant that some email clients were hiding the number to protect privacy.
To solve the problem I simply changed the number of digits.
This is my first post here although I use this forum all the time and it usually provides me with a solution, however I've searched all over the web for an answer to this and I can't find anything.
I'm developing a website which provides software support. Users log on to it and add a "support call" which a member of a support team will answer.
The problem I am facing is that when users describe their problem (inside the TextBoxFor shown below), they can type out their problem, and format the text as they please, however when the call is submitted, sometimes (it appears randomly) the formatting just disappears, e.g. some spacing and paragraph use just disappears, here is an example:
Correct formatting:
Hi I'm having difficulty with x, and y and I need some assistance.
Could somebody help me out?
How it appears sometimes:
Hi I'm having difficulty with x,and y and I need some assistance.Could somebody help me out?"
This, of course is highly simplified, and some people have to write many paragraphs and text lines.
Here is the code for the textbox (in the view):
#Html.TextBoxFor(Function(model) model.SupportCall.Subject, New With {.maxLength = "254", .style = "width:500px;"})
It is worth mentioning that when a support call is submitted, it goes to a folder which is picked up by another internal piece of software, which then creates a database record for the call, meaning that an email notification can be sent to the support team, then the list of calls to be answered is updated from that database model, therefore I'm pretty sure it's possible that this process could be what is changing the text formatting.
A reason why this is happening is just as useful as a solution to me so any input is welcome.
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I'd like to be able to get all my Google chat logs so that I can use them for training a chat bot type of thing.
I am aware of the limitations that have been imposed by Google so that chats cannot be simply downloaded through IMAP. I'm looking for workarounds.
As of September 2011, Google removed the restriction on downloading chats. Google now allows export of chatlogs using IMAP.
It's not possible to download the chat logs unless they're attached to an email conversation - maybe you could fwd all of the logs that are held in your 'chats' folder and then download the conversations over IMAP or POP?
I recently had to do the same thing and coded a quick ruby script. http://9seats.com/2011/04/archiving-gmail-chat-logs-with-ruby/
If you're looking to make a program to do this, you could use a greasemonkey script and a local PHP server.
The greasemonkey script would pick up chats as you visit them, parse them, and send them to the local PHP server, which could then dump it to a TXT, SQL, whatever.
Contact me if you want some help, I might be interested in this, though I'll be on holidays the next months :)
Take a wander through the Google Talk API. And this may, or may not, help too: GMailAPI
If you know how to download a email. You can do the same to chat. Because chats are nothing but an email tagged with label chat. If you see chats, they are actually sent from the person you chatted with to you.