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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: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:16:20 -0000


Any idea James? :)

Thanks,

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 February 2005 16:55
To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xap_automation] Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for new
xAP software


Cool - right you've sold me on it now - so when are you releasing the first
version?

:)

Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 February 2005 15:37
To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Outlook, Caller ID, Intranet was Idea for new
xAP software


That's pretty much what you get by default by setting a message to the
'xAPTTS' category.
The actual message is preset in the config file by something that looks
like, with a separate line for email and reminders.
eTTS=New email message from **FromName**. Subject is, **Subject**
rTTS=Reminder, **Title** will be starting at **StartTime**

This is the part of the plugin i'm doing at the moment, so the actual
method of how this will look might change a bit but it is working!

James

Paul Gale wrote:

>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:
>
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>
>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----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
>>>
>>>
>>>Patrick Lidstone (Personal E-mail) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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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