Database Develop

Changing surename/frontname order

I know this can be changed, and to my embarrisment I cannot find it on here anymore on how to do this. Could anyone please tell me the reg value I need to change to not have my TD show surnames first (who tought up this idiot setting to begin with?).

you can change it, go into contacts, edit and change it in "file as"

barkman said:
you can change it, go into contacts, edit and change it in "file as"
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funny enough, that doesn't really matter. At least not with the built in BT carkit in my C4 picasso. It will still show firstname/surname.
If there is indeed a registry key to change this, I would like to know. Perhaps that DOES give the result I am hoping for.

how i writr my contacts is as follows ( works in outlook contacts aswell ) where you have to put first ,name ,middle ,last, etc just write the full name in the first name column e.g you would write the name John Smith ,with john in the first column and smith in the last colume ,but just write john smith in the first column and it should be ok .hope you understand.

This is a way of entering/adding NEW contacts to the phone. As I understood, sjaak1234 wants to change this display mode for the contacts already in the phone. Manually editting of each contact is not a good way to follow...say you have 400 contacts...edit each one of them? Gee...I event don't wanna think about it.
An easier way (as I did it in the past since I couldn't find another way) is to export your contacts from Outlook into Excel, than concatenate the two text strings "First Name" and "Last Name" into one single text string (under "First Name" for ex) and import back the file in Outlook. Then, by syncing you should get the adress book properly sorted and displayed. It should take no more than 10 min.

That's in Outlook But that setting does not exist on my phone
barkman said:
you can change it, go into contacts, edit and change it in "file as"
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If you want your Contacts to be displayed as First name then Last name, use this cab else this one for the reverse.
Regards,
Carty..

That's great,
thanks a lot
Patrick
Carty said:
If you want your Contacts to be displayed as First name then Last name, use this cab else this one for the reverse.
Regards,
Carty..
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Um,
it is great but.... what do I do? I installed it and nothing has changed in my Contacts. What am I missing?
Patrick
edit: found it, I have to tap on a contact in the contact list and select first-last and do that with every contact. I get it

bozotheclown said:
Um,
it is great but.... what do I do? I installed it and nothing has changed in my Contacts. What am I missing?
Patrick
edit: found it, I have to tap on a contact in the contact list and select first-last and do that with every contact. I get it
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Thats a standard feature, you don't need to install anything to get that.

In that case I realy don't understand what installing the cab has added
kien said:
Thats a standard feature, you don't need to install anything to get that.
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[Help] Task firing X minutes before calendar entry?

I do not seem to get that working. I am not too much of an expert with Tasker even though I know the basics.

it's always a good idea to share your profile when it's not working as expected. Make sure it's named - not a default name assigned by tasker. Then long press on the name to highlight the profile. Go to the 3-dot menu and select export -> Description to Clipboard.
Then you'll be able to paste it. Be aware, it easier to use pastebin then link to a post here. If you paste in a post here, the forum software will convert all semicolons with characters after, typically "on" and "off", to emoticons making it very hard to read.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

- Business calendar(free/paid) has option to show notification prior to calendar events
- Test calendar action every certain minutes to query for coming event and act on it.

alienyd said:
- Business calendar(free/paid) has option to show notification prior to calendar events
- Test calendar action every certain minutes to query for coming event and act on it.
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That sounds interesting... I happen to use Business Calendar 2 as my calendar app.

isosika said:
That sounds interesting... I happen to use Business Calendar 2 as my calendar app.
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Exactly the one. You can have Tasker react to its Ongoing-Notifications.

[Q] Interact with notifications of apps in android work profile

My office device comes with Slack installed in the android work profile. I am trying to intercept the notifications from that app using AutoNotifications but somehow it is not executing the tasker profile when I receive the notification from slack.
Any tips/tricks to do that?

There is a post where a profile was made so that a user could explore how to use Auto notification intercept. Find it here.
Otherwise, it's a good idea to share your profile when it's not working as expected. Make sure it's named - not a default name assigned by tasker. Then long press on the name to highlight the profile. Go to the 3-dot menu and select export -> Description to Clipboard.
Then you'll be able to paste it. Be aware, it easier to use pastebin then link to a post here. If you paste in a post here, the forum software will convert all semicolons with characters after, typically "on" and "off" to emoticons making it very hard to read.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

How to extract phone# from incoming SMS in Tasker

I am working on Tasker to reply to an incoming text message using the GET VOICE and SEND SMS commands (for use while driving). After an incoming message Tasker listens to my reply using GET VOICE and sends the reply using SEND SMS with %VOICE in the Message field and some other variable with the phone# in the Number field... and here I'm stuck because I found no way of extracting the phone number from an incoming SMS (it works when the variable has a phone number already assigned to it).
Can anyone help?

Have you tried using the %SMSRF variable? Typically I set a local variable to the value of %SMSRF as the first action in case another text comes in while the task is processing.
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini

Thanks ktmom!
Worked like a charm!
No more struggling with the phone when driving!
Actually, now you have encouraged me to rewrite my task to give an option of when a new SMS arrives to either Text back, Call the sender or just Quit. I have also put to use your tip on setting local variables for all the parts of the incoming text message - just in case
Have a nice day!

tasker and Google voice

Morning all.
Running tasker on a rooted Nexus 6.
Working on something between tasker and Google voice.
When connected to Bluetooth, I want to hear the contract nickname not the phone number.
I have a trigger with notification intercept focusing on GV.
Task. reads the contact.
But the notification isn't triggering. Any ideas?
I've been using tasker for a couple years so I'm comfortable with it, I just think I got myself a little lost
Cheers

This works natively on my N6. Is contact sharing "enabled" in the headset settings (under Bluetooth)?
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini

ktmom said:
This works natively on my N6. Is contact sharing "enabled" in the headset settings (under Bluetooth)?
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
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Yes it is. That was the first thing I circled when I started trying to build this recipe.

Could you please post the *description* of the profile.
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini

Sure
Profile.
State:
Call, incoming : %C:ANY or %CNAME
Also tried auto notification intercept pointed at Google voice.
Task.
Say:
Call from %CNAME or %C:ANY . I've tried these together and separately with both upper and lower case combinations.
I didn't know if I need to set a variable, or even what variable I should set?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers

The exported description provides much more information than than that.
To export the description of the profile:
Make sure it's named - not a default name assigned by tasker. To name the profile if it isn't already, long press on the name to highlight the profile and, at the top, tap the square with the A.
Long press on the name to highlight the profile. Go to the 3-dot menu and select export -> Description to Clipboard.
Now you'll be able to paste it. Be aware, it easier to use pastebin.com and link to a post here. If you paste in a post here, the forum software will convert all semicolons with characters directly after to emoticons making it very hard to read.
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini

ktmom said:
The exported description provides much more information than than that.
To export the description of the profile:
Make sure it's named - not a default name assigned by tasker. To name the profile if it isn't already, long press on the name to highlight the profile and, at the top, tap the square with the A.
Long press on the name to highlight the profile. Go to the 3-dot menu and select export -> Description to Clipboard.
Now you'll be able to paste it. Be aware, it easier to use pastebin.com and link to a post here. If you paste in a post here, the forum software will convert all semicolons with characters directly after to emoticons making it very hard to read.
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini
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That is too cool. Thanks for the tip. Cant get to pastebin.com from here. I exported to a google Doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19b7ktHdYNQwYl54qbNBeHiog0elXDandxsKJliPZ6Q8/edit?usp=sharing
thanks again for the great tip!!!
Cheers.

I have no experience with the notification listener plug-in. I use AutoNotification which is from the same developer as the current Tasker developer. It works reliably for me.
If the profile is not triggering, I would test the plug-in function by creating a simple test using a notification you can control. Then see if the notification listener is triggering on that notification using a beep action. It's possible that the notification listener plug-in requires the title of the notification or such.
"find somebody that you think is undeserving of your compassion and give it to them" - Christian Picciolini

ktmom said:
I have no experience with the notification listener plug-in. I use AutoNotification which is from the same developer as the current Tasker developer. It works reliably for me.
If the profile is not triggering, I would test the plug-in function by creating a simple test using a notification you can control. Then see if the notification listener is triggering on that notification using a beep action. It's possible that the notification listener plug-in requires the title of the notification or such.
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Thanks for the suggestion. You have given me some things to try.
Cheers and happy holidays