I have implemented a calendar in my website (Ruby on Rails) and i have also successfully generated an .ics file. I want to send this file as an attachment in an email.
I have set the mime as text/calendar
I also set the content_type as multipart/alternative
The attachment is sent successfully in the email on all major email clients except gmail
How to make the .ics attachment appear in the email. has anyone faced this kind of a problem before. I checked in various google help forums and many have faced this issue, but no concrete solution has been found.
In Gmail, click the "more" down arrow. One of the options is "Show original". Select that.
When the window opens, scroll down. You should see the VCalendar area. Gmail is ignoring it.
In this area, look for the line that starts as "Organizer;" If you are listed as the organizer, then gmail ignores the ics file. This is a "feature"
We built a web page for ourselves that we copy that text into and it strips that line out and re-emails the ics to us. Then it works fine. (with just a little more work, you could set up an email intercept wherein you forward that email to someplace where you have a parser that grabs the VCalendar, strips out the organizer, and emails it back to you.
We asked Google to put a feature request in to change this, but it's unlikely to happen.
Good Luck.
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I've created report a problem form for a website. So, whenever user experiences a problem, he/she can report a problem. They have to submit it using the google form. Some of the values like URL and browser details are fetched automatically in the form and user doesn't have to enter it manually. After each submission of the report, I get email notification of the forms values filled by that user in Outlook. I'm using Outlook Desktop App.
My Problem:
For one of the reports, what I'm facing is that when I click the URL, it doesn't work. If I copy paste the URL, it works fine.
What I tested so far:
I have tried to click the link in Outlook windows app, Outlook(web), gmail(web) and yahoo(web) and Outlook(Android App), but it's not working in either of them.
Please let me know if you have any idea why this happens. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
It happened because the link had the double quotes in itself. So, whenever I clicked the link, it would only open the URL till first instance of double quotes is encountered.
Solution:
I need to encode the URL in order to behave properly
I am using twilio to send SMS messages to phone numbers. What I am having problems with is making sure that once a user gets the message the preview of what is at a certain link actually loads in the message the user sees on the phone.
What is the proper way to send a link that automatically shows the preview?
EDIT:
I tried the open graph api. Apple does have a tech note on that. But, then, why does this link provided a proper preview in messages when I send this link to another phone? It works, and it does not use open graph.
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a couple of things you can try
have the link at start of the message or end of the message
the link should be properly formatted with either http:// or https://
iOS uses The Open Graph protocol to support what image to show in the link . http://ogp.me/
I have created a Gmail Wrapper Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT) application using Webview. When I try to compose an Email and try to add attachments, file picker is not displayed and nothing happens.
However when I use the Internet Explorer and login to the same Gmail account and click on Attach, the file picker is shown with different options to choose the attachment from.
I have enabled the required capabilities in App Manifest, however the file picker is not shown in the Wrapper application.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
The hosted browser (WebView) cannot show the native file picker. You'd need to proxy the request somehow and show the picker from C# for example. But, as you don't own the gmail source code, making the proper surgical changes would be difficult (and subject to be changed).
I don't want to write my own email app. All I want is to be able redirect to mail with a preconfigured search string to display relevant emails. There doesn't appear to be a way to read or list emails from mail.app from within another app. Am I overlooking something? Is there a workaround for this?
I am fully aware of and able to use message UI in my app. What I want is to read, not send, email that has already been downloaded and exists in mail.app.
The only way that you can use to connect apps with other apps in iOS is thought url scheme.
You can take a look at Url Scheme reference
but it seems like you can't make this action.
UPDATE:
you can take a look the extra functionalities at Wikipedia
I have a UIWebview that loads the e-mail website for my school. When you log in, you can view and read mail with no problem, but if you goto compose an e-mail or reply to one, you are unable to touch inside the message text box to write your e-mail.
I thought it was a problem with the actual e-mail client my school uses, but when I goto the website on Safari I am able to touch in the message box and write an e-mail as usual.
If you have any insight on why this would happening, i'd appreciate it!!
Also, I basically built my own web browser, how would I go about allowing users to save their user/password, for example for the e-mail link (I have other links to school related websites where it would be nice for it to save your user/pass).
Thanks!
MobileSafari (and UIWebView) don't support contenteditable, only normal inputs and textareas