Obviously I'm not using the right keyword/phrases to find the information that I need. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
I've generated an ICS file. I put a link to this file in an email. What I would like to happen is that the recipient clicks the link and it updates their calendar (regardless of OS, platform). Currently the link simply downloads the ICS file but does not update any calendar.
Background: I belong to a non-profit organisation that runs several courses that members can subscribe to. This means that each members course list will be different therefore I can not simply send out a single list or have people subscribe to lots of different 'events' to have their calendars updated.
Is this doable or am I simply dreaming :-)
Jeff, what happens when some one clicks on an ics link depends on their device and the program that they are reading the email in, and how they have setup their defaults - eg what calednar app. EG: I have mine setuo to download ics files for testing purposes, and if i click on a downloaded one it opens in notepad++.
Of course most people will not have that. However, not that easy to make it happen automatically, have to tell users.
To have updates (ie syncing) happen, recipients need to subscribe to the link, not import the data. If they are not familiar with using multiple calendars, they can get confused.
instructions on google: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100 on apple calendars https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/calendar/subscribe-to-calendars-icl1022/mac. Rather annoyingly, iphones will offer a user who clicks on a normal http..ics url an option to import all events. To make the iphone offer the subscribe option one has to use the unofficial apple icalendar prefix webcal. So one ends up either showing both link options on a webpage, or doing device detection and showing webcal for macs.
hope that clarifies.
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I have tried searching for a way to download some basic stats, or even a time series plot, that tallies the amount of facebook messenger activity between myself and my significant other. This is a much needed step to expedite some paperwork we need for a government application. Scrolling through a multi-year history and counting which days we used Messenger seems tortuous. Even if there was a way to download a vector of timestamps of messages between us, that would help a lot. I could code my own plot for the paperwork. Some blogs have mentioned using the "download a copy of your facebook data" from the support inbox, but I do not see that link on the appropriate page anymore. Does anyone know where it moved to?
Thank you.
I haven't tried this myself, but hopefully it works:
Go to your settings (the little downward pointing arrow, then choose settings),and right below all the options within the main box there should be a message saying "Download a copy of your Facebook data.", click the link, start the archive and apparently it should work. But whether or not it has timestamps and such, is a mystery for me (but likely).
edit: If this does not work, depending on your computer/volume of messages, what you could also do is open the mobile browser messenger (to reduce processing power needed), and start scrolling up within your conversation right up until to the top, then ctrl+a and copy everything to a word document. But obviously this would not work for conversations in the multiple thousand message territory
Facebook recently announced the introduction of messenger codes which can be used to add new contacts and, more importantly, communicate directly with businesses and business pages (which is why I'm interested in it).
It took me ages to find it but on the bottom left of the messages tab on my Facebook page I have the option to download my code in three different sizes - clicking the disc will open a modal window where you can click the Download button and choose from 300, 600 or 1000px PNG file downloads.
NOTE: While they are PNG files the background is not transparent which seems like a bit of an oversight to me but hey ho that's what Photoshop is for I guess.
The problem is that while I can download my code I can't find any way to test it on printed materials (or even electronically at the moment!). The scanning feature doesn't seem to have been rolled out for me yet (I tried re-installing the Messenger app to see if I got a newer version but that didn't work) and nor for anyone I know (I'm in the UK). The codes are bespoke to Messenger so can't be scanned or tested using any other app.
I'm probably too far ahead of the game but is there any way I can test to see if my code scans correctly, or anywhere I can go to find out? I would like to use it on some promotional material which is likely to be long term materials that I don't want to have to update in the near future (several years, by which time it's likely these codes will be more commonplace).
I also need to know what the redundancy is like. For example the high redundancy QR codes I generate can have up to 30% of the code covered while still being usable, which is great for design purposes. I can't find any official documentation as yet for these codes at all, let alone what is required, what the spec. is etc.
I know the most likely option is 'sit and wait' but I really would rather not if possible. I've never been very patient...
Thanks
UPDATE: My Messenger app has now been updated so I can test, but I'm leaving this here in case anyone knows of another way to test perhaps? If someone doesn't have Messenger on their phone for example.
I'm trying to make an app that allows the user to put in information and then transfer the information over to Microsoft word to automatically organize it into an invoice. However, I cannot find the information about the Microsoft word app in order to do this. This website http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/learn/reference/other/activitystarter.html states that you require the package name and class name, or the appropriate intent, in order to work an activity starter.
I'm using MIT App Inventor and I'm kind of new at this. Please help.
If you can't find the package/class name (online) for the application, you can't start an activity. Most likely that it is not open source, so it is not available for the public.
From http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/other/activitystarter.html:
These can be App Inventor apps created by you or others. They can
also be apps like Camera and Maps that are pre-installed on the
device. Or they be any app at all as long as you have the
necessary information to provide to the activity starter.
For example:
To start an acitivity for the camera use the package android.hardware.camera2. (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/package-summary.html)
I don't know if you want to consider it, but you can also use FusionTables. The information you submit in your app will be inserted into a table in your Google Drive. (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/pizzaparty.html)
I started looking into OwnCloud app development to add some capabilities I would like to my server. To me it seems like Apps can't modify anything like the Login page or User Management page. Is this the case?
I want to build a user registration app and would love to integrate it into the user management page (if not and it has to exist as its own app page not a big deal). The one big problem I see so far is not being able to add a "Register" link to the login page. I could just go in and add it to the source manually, but I would like to keep the App self contained so others can use it too.
If this is not possible to do in an App I may just need to modify the core application and then see if they will accept my feature addition in a pull request.
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this for me. I don't want to waste my time trying to figure out how to do it with an App on the platform if it wont be doable.
After a lot of digging around I did figure out a way to do this.
In the App's app.php file, you can force a script to be loaded if the plugin is enabled:
$api->addScript('script_name'); // without .js
In that script jQuery can be used to add the elements to the page where you need them.
This was a good solution for me since I only needed to add a single button to the login page. I can see this being a bad idea if you want to make vast modifications. At that point you might as well just create a separate page that you have full control over.
There's a system search in iOS that allows users to search though the whole device by searching entered keyword for app names, mail messages, calendar and etc. Is it possible to provide some additional information (content info) about my app to system search? We are developing some rich-graphic-content app and there are various objects there.
The customer asked us, is it possible to implement such use case: a user enters the name of some object and system search finds that object and shows our app name in the result list :) Maybe it's possible to create some "sitemap" with information about the app content, to put that somewhere into plist and to ask system search to use that for search index. I'm pretty sure it's impossible, just want to be 100% sure :)
UPDATE: One thought on that - maybe system search also uses app description text from itunes? If so then we could place additional information there and to workaround that :)
For static keywords (that are pre-defined when building the app), you can do this: How to get an iPhone app to appear in Spotlight with a query that doesn't exactly match
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to add keywords dynamically, e.g. for the objects/files created with your app, like the Apple-provided apps do. Hopefully, the ability to add your app's contents to Spotlight will be added in a future version of iOS (7+).