is there a Thunderbird add-on that would find and parse mails like the following and give the user the ability to quickly add the given time and date to the calendar?
Dear Foo,
I suggest we meet _tomorrow at 10am_.
The idea here would be to transform tomorrow at 10am to a clickable link that would result in the creation of a new event in the calendar.
This is more of a superuser.com question the way you are phrasing it. The built in way to do it is to use the context menu, then convert to, then event or task. It may not catch all kinds of dates, so "tomorrow at 10am" may not work.
There is also a toolbar button you can add from the customize menu that does the same thing but allows you to select the language to use for detection. Make sure you are using a multi-locale Lightning for that (e.g. one from addons.mozilla.org).
I've always been wanting to write an extension that allows you to select event details manually, but I never got around to finishing it.
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I am trying to create a script that will auto-email a person. Basically, this sheet is going to have a list of items and track those items, and I need to assign each item when it comes it. When I assign it to a person's name, I want the script to then email that person. There are only about 15 people, but I assume I would need a script for each person aka if I put "Sally" in the sheet, there is a script to now email "Sally" to say she has been added to this task.
Ideally, I would like a way to also generate an email again to "Sally" if I update her task, add a comment to it, or do another input to do some sort of follow-up.
Any help would be appreciated immensely!
It wont be good to directly post the complete solution but I will mention the required functionalities which I get in my mind , please use them to solve your task:
onEdit(e) - use this to trigger a particular set of functions whenever a particular range or cell value is changed(it may be automated or manual both can trigger this function) look into the official documentation for how to detect the changes occurred in which cell(https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers)
once the new task is assigned to a person(for first time) send an email to that person using GmailApp(install the library in app script) , get the ThreadById of this email and store it into the sheet along the same row, if any changes are made afterwords like adding comments or something,use this threadId to reply to the same email using "thread.reply"(How do you reply to email thread with google Mailapp?)
I think you have also asked how to make the system dynamic, I mean you are right now coding as if each member needs a code for his/her entry. Please study a bit deeper you will easily find an approach to make it dynamic using the onEdit and some for loops as the way you are thinking is not recommended in automation scenarios.
I am looking to create a timer on a quiz that I am creating in Google Forms. I have found this post here - How to add a timer to Google Forms for a School Quiz? - from 2013 where it's mentioned that scripting might make this possible eventually. I am wondering if anyone has figured this out or has a solution. Ideally I would like to have the timer start when someone opens the form and auto submit or stop receiving submissions after a set elapsed time.
Thanks in advance :)
A Previous Question has mentioned this before. Right now you are correct, you cannot time a quiz using a script at the moment. Though this question does mention some "workarounds" such as using the Form Limiter tool posted in that question.
Also this was mentioned as a viable solution:
One way is to use Qualtrics. It has a "timing" question which can
automatically submit the page once the time is complete.
So, if your sections can be placed in 3 different pages, its quite
easy: Place a timing question on the top of each section with the time
settings.
And This link Tells you how to set the general settings of time limits (such as, open test on April 14th close on April 15th). You can set specific date limits but still no timer.
For Further Reference View this Google Product Forum.
Use an addon. Some work well, others don’t. A good one is Quilgo Time and Proctoring. But as with any addon, you have to sign in. If you decide to use a different addon, be wary of the requirements. You will also have to make a Quilgo account if you use the suggested addon. But to have it stop accepting responses, you can either use an addon (Form Limit Response - Limit Form Close) or just do it in the form settings (manual turn off). Where to find manual switch for turning off responses
I am using the regular input date-picker. But after selecting a date, there is no convenient way to confirm the selection. Something like a DONE button that will elegant than clicking anywhere outside to "select". Like the 'clear" button, which is there on the frame. Any suggestions where to get a good date-time picker?
I understand there is no easy Calendar-Date pickup available in MAF unless one installs the Cordova-PhoneGap-Calendar for iOS!
BTW, I found a good date-Picker in Oracle-Wiki (Link Below). In fact, I want something imilar,but either the given code is not the right one or I am missing something.
I have no idea, how to use the Oracle WiKi. Any help on a good Date-Time picker is appreciated.
https://wikis.oracle.com/display/ADFMobileDesign/Component+-+Input+Date
I'm not exactly sure what to call the thing i am searching for. If I knew what to call it I might find the answer, so if you have an answer to my question or even know what I can search for that would be very helpful.
I am trying to create a simple php form that has standard fields like name, email, etc. I want to add an event type field that is a drop down with pre-selected values (i.e wedding, birthday, etc). Once they select a particular event I want other options to appear.
For exmaple they would select wedding and then date, venue, etc would then come up. If they selected birthday, then different additional options would appear.
Does anyone know the technical term for this, or where I can find a tutorial on it? Does it require ajax or jquery or something else?
Thanks for your help.
You could do this with jQuery. It sounds like you want more than just dynamic select (drop down) inputs. You could check this blog post out, but that really only covers the drop down fields.
It sounds like you want something fairly custom. You could separate your form into the individual steps and hide many of the fields to start. With jQuery, you can apply event handlers to fire functions when something is selected and then the function would determine what fields to show.
You don't really need to use AJAX unless you need the options (specifically drop downs) to contain options which are pulled from a dynamic source (e.g. a database).
I want to be able to search an html page that is refreshing every 10 seconds for the word "stat". If the word is found I then want to alert the user through a pop up dialog and possibly a repeating sound until the user acknowledges it.
UPDATE:
Sorry the question was a bit ambiguous. I do not know a great deal about this stuff I just do it as a hobby.
OK so here is the deal. I work as Biomedical Electronics Technician for a hospital. We have a work order system that is web based. Nurses can enter a work order into this system. I have a browser window open at all times that refreshes periodically through an add-on for IE so I can always be up to date on the status of the work orders coming in. When a nurse the enters enters a work order they have the option of choosing Stat, High, Medium, or Low for the priority. When a stat work order is placed our response time should be within five minutes theoretically. I want some way to alert myself when a stat work order has been placed so I can respond accordingly. And I know a repeating sound would be annoying, but that might be the best way to get my attention.
Another caveat to this is the work order status can be changed by me, the tech. So when a work order is initially placed the status is Not assigned or something like that. Once I go start on a work order I change the status to In Progress. If I have to order a part I change the status to Hold for Parts, etc. So basically, what I am saying is I don't want to alerted if the status is anything but "Not assigned". If it will help I will get a copy of the source of the page when I get to work tomorrow.
Our IT department seems unwilling to help and the company that made the product is so busy chasing the daily bugs that show up to add new features such as this at this time. If I knew more a Google search might help, but alas I am a bit noobish in the programming realm, however I am 2 years from a C.S. degree so I am not a complete novice.
To answer another question, I do not have access to the page I am just viewing it so any sort of script would need to run on my client machine.
Thanks
I found this, try it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3028/
Maybe it can search for STAT on the entire page?
Based off your description, it doesn't sound like you have access to the server to change the code of the page itself, correct?
If that's the case, spend some time learning how to use Greasemonkey (or rather Greasemonkey for IE). It allows you to add functionality to a web page from the client (browser) side, regardless of what's on the server.
You'll need to find the elements that hold the "stat" term your after, and have it check periodically those elements periodically. Look into the setTimeout method for that periodicity. The rest you'll have to work out specific to that page.
What you're looking for, since you have python available, is to build a simple, easy to use webscraper.
First link is how i would do it quick and dirty.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4436125_read-web-page-using-python.html
Second link is a bit more robust and nifty with BeautifulSoup
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/python/soa/Build-a-basic-Web-scraper-in-Python/0,2000064084,339281476,00.htm
Basically, read the page (even set the whole loop on a 10 second refresh timer).
Go line by line with a while readline loop.
See if one of your magic words exists with a regular expression
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profit?
(... meaning do your alert song and dance)
(profit being rejoice!)