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RE: Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for new xAP software


  • Subject: RE: Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for new xAP software
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:39:04 -0000


OK, that makes sense.

What I couldn't see is how would you send variable data to be
spoken/displayed e.g. if I wanted new messages that match an Outlook filter
to be spoken as such:

"New email message from Peter Smith. Subject is <pause> Hi, how
are you?"

Can that kind of message be constructed?

Thanks,

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 February 2005 23:52
To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for new
xAP software


Paul,
It will basically have this featureset at launch,  as well as the
syncing of address data with CIDlookup.

Calendar reminders with a category of 'xAP' are sent out over xAP as
Outlook.Reminder messages
Calendar reminders with a category of 'xAPTTS' will be spoken via a xAP
TTS app
Calendar reminders with a category of 'xAPDisplay' will be sent to to
xAP display devices
Calendar reminders with a body containing <xAP> </xAP> tags
will be
processed and sent (more later)
New mail alerts with a category of 'xAP'  are sent over xAP as
Outlook.NewMail messages
New mail alerts with a category of 'xAPSend' and containing <xAP>
</xAP>
will be processed and sent


An example <xAP> </xAP> tag is

<xAP>
Class=message.display
<msg>
Display
{
Line1=Hello
Line2=World
}
</xAP>

and you can have as many of these tags per reminder / email as you
like.  So basically you can schedule any number of xAP messages to be
sent by using your outlook calendar or email xAP messages home to be
sent, and it's all under the control of how you setup your
categories/filters in outlook.

James


Paul Gale wrote:

>Thanks,
>
>...and you set the actions to be performed in your app?
>
>I still don't run xAP on my HA server (I've played with it but the
functionality hasn't been there for what I want to do  - this will change
that hopefully!).
>
>Paul.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Traynor [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 20 February 2005 22:25
>To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for
new xAP software
>
>
>Paul,
>
>While the outlook plugin's main purpose is to provide and sync address
>book data with the callerid app, it will have some more functions.
>Currently the plugin generates an event on new mail and when a reminder
>pops up, but only if the mail or appointment is a member of the 'xAP'
>category. This should make it pretty flexible as to what generates
>events. An event will be both the sending of an alert xap message but
>also a configurable sequence of messages for things like message
>displays or tts.
>
>
>HTH
>
>James
>
>Paul Gale wrote:
>
>
>>James,
>>
>>Apart from your xAP TV, what else can be done with the data
extracted from Outlook - i.e. can it be parsed and spoken by a TTS app?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Paul.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: James [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 21 February 2005 18:58
>>To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea
for new xAP software
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>>
>>Patrick Lidstone (Personal E-mail) wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>I love this syncing approach. I think it has great potential
for a
>>>myriad of other xAP applications - like publishing public
calendar
>>>entries to a web server. Have you got anything we can beta test
yet?
>>>
>>>
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>>The main logging application is done as is the updated xAP TV. 
Give me
>>a couple more days on the outlook plugin. Currently outlook
contacts get
>>sent to the main app, any change of any contact get resent, changes
on
>>through the web interface update outlook and incoming calls that
are
>>matched to an outlook contact cause that contact to popup. All this
can
>>happen to as many outlooks as you like. Things like deletions and
>>general checkups need to be added. I'll let you all know when it's
>>ready. The initial release will need outlook 2k3 as thats all i
have
>>here  but it should support 2k and xp  once i get the necessary
files to
>>build against.
>>
>>James
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