Posted: January 29 2003 at 15:42 | IP Logged

Chris,

Ive modified the Process Email functionality based upon the information you've provided above.  It will be available in the next release .

What I've done is allow the format that you tried above...specify the type of email control followed by a single space followed by the actual formula.

BTW, would you happen to know if this is standard for SMS messaging?  I would hope to come up with a scheme which would be universal for everyone.  I have AT&T wireless, which I'll be testing tonight to confirm the fix.

Thanks,

Dave.

Posted: January 29 2003 at 16:11 | IP Logged

I have Cingular, and it allows a unique subject. Maybe this should be a setup option?

Tony

Posted: January 29 2003 at 23:23 | IP Logged

Errr, ummm, uhhh...

I may have wasted your time.  Sorry 'bout that.  After looking at it closer, the outgoing SMS message was mangled more than just repeating a fraction as the subject line.   Although I couldn't find any reference to this in Verizon's or Motorola's documentation or web sites, there is an explanation.  Whether a subject line is directly entered is a function of the phone, rather than the service, based on the limited research I did.  For example, http://www.suncom.com/messaging/2way_SMS_faq.html .  I didn't spend a lot of time checking multiple phones & services & countries however, so you might want to check further before publishing instructions in your powerhome manual.

Anyway, my phone (motorola t720) interprets a parentheses pair as enclosing the subject line of the outgoing message.  Would have been nice to see that tidbit in the 192 page owner's manual.   It throws away the portion before, and puts the remainder in the message body.  As you can imagine, this wreaks havoc with a sendkeys formula email.  Actually, it could wreak havoc on an innocent (non-geeky) text message too.  However, knowing this trick provides the answer:

Instead of entering subject sendkeys body ph_rtne(ph_macro("MACRONAME")) as one would on a quality phone such as Tony's, one can enter (sendkeys)ph_rtne((ph_macro("MACRONAME"))  as the message.  A trailing space also seems to be required, to avoid having the phone enter a carriage return for you.  It works fine now, using this trick.

Actually though, I kind of like the idea of the one line email entry to fire off a macro-- I vote you keep that option in your software, though admittedly it doesn't solve the problem that I had originally posed (and again, sorry for the misleading post). 

Posted: January 30 2003 at 07:56 | IP Logged

Then, my post should have been, "my Nokia 8260 allows a subject line"!

Tony

Posted: January 30 2003 at 11:37 | IP Logged

I went ahead and changed the code back to the way it was. 

I couldn't leave it and get the functionality that you were wanting with being able to place everything in the message body because I was still relying upon the first part of the body being copied to the subject.  This way when scanning the email, I only need to read the envelope and don't have to read the actual message to determine if PowerHome is going to use it.  By having the "trigger" in the subject, PowerHome will only "read" the message if it determines that it is a piece of Control Email.

In any event, Im glad you got it working .

Chris,

As a side note, you would probably be better off using the subject of "formula" with a body of "ph_macro("STATUS REPORT")" rather than the sendkeys.  It should save you some typing.  Actually...now that I think about it, you would be better off in the above case by using a subject of "macro" with a body of "STATUS REPORT".  It will save you even more typing.  In the last case, you don't even have to capitalize the macro name as it will be done automatically for you if that makes entry into your SMS any easier.

Dave.

Posted: January 31 2003 at 10:45 | IP Logged

Glad I could help.

Dave.