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    Active Phone number on smart phone?

    I am not deploying my experiments in V12 yet (for a good reason), so I just wanted to ask whether smart phones can detect that a field in a grid component that is an embedded component in a panel has a phone number in it.. so that when user clicks it on a smart phone, it does the 'call' thing. Is there something I should be setting in the phone number field on my grid to make this happen?

    UPDATE: To save someone from reading through the trial and errors in this thread, the answer to my question was to put the following javascript code in the OnClick event of the phone number field on my embedded read-only grid:

    Code:
    \\In this case, MOBILE is the name of the field that holds the phone number.
    var pno = {grid.object}.getValue('G','MOBILE',{grid.rowNumber});
    
    if (A5.flags.supportsTouch !=false) {
    	window.location = 'tel:'+pno;
    } else {
    	alert('Not running on a mobile phone device.');
    }
    Last edited by kingcarol; 06-21-2013, 02:45 PM.
    Carol King
    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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    Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

    Hi Carol,

    I would think you want some sort of button that does the 'call' thing, otherwise any clicking in the field to edit/add would start calling the number. Not sure how you would access the 'call' thing though. It's probably different between Android, blackberry, iphone and windows phone.

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      #3
      Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

      On IOS devices (and I think android as well) you do not have to do anything other than display a phone number. Every site(whether its a mobile site or not) If I touch a phone number I am given the opportunity to call or not (cancel)
      Bill Griffin
      Parkell, Inc

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        #4
        Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

        Hi Bill,

        That works if the number is part of the web page, but if it is a field in a form on a web page it does not. You just get to edit the number that is in the field.

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          #5
          Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

          You are correct sir....
          Bill Griffin
          Parkell, Inc

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            #6
            Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

            So it sounds like I should take the grid I have in the panel and make an a5w page from the grid and put that in the panel. It's a non-updateable grid anyway, so I'll try that.
            Carol King
            Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
            http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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              #7
              Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

              Not sure if that will work( even though theoretically it should), but its worth a shot.
              Bill Griffin
              Parkell, Inc

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                #8
                Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                Just tried putting the grid in a page, and encountered various sizing, filtering, etc. obstacles with it in a panel. ANYWAY, would rather find out use a 'Call' button on the panel header where grid is embedded (as Lance mentioned). Any more ideas out there?

                Hmmm, I'm thinking that I might need to set a session variable in Xbasic that contains the phone number and send it into a page that is then opened in an IFrame panel.
                Carol King
                Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                  #9
                  Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                  This shouldn't be that difficult to do, yet.... I tried a couple of things, but to no avail. I am in contact with Bob Moore. I will let you know what I find out.
                  Bill Griffin
                  Parkell, Inc

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                    Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                    I've tried a bit, too. Having trouble getting the page I made to update the data in the session variable I'm using to send in the phone number. When 'Call' button clicked on panel, I call an Xbasic function that does an sql query to get the phone number where the contact id is supplied from a Contacts list object. It returns the phone number in the result set. Then the function sets a session variable to that phone number. Then the function sets focus to the panel with the page in it. The page has this on it: <%A5 ? session.ContactHomePhone %> The page displays a phone number, but it keeps remembering a previous value. I check marked that the page embedded in a panel should 'Refresh When Panel Card Gets Focus' but that's not helping. If I go back to Design Mode and then to Live Preview again, THEN I see the phone number value for the last contact selected in the contact list from LAST live preview.

                    I have verified that the session variable does get set to the proper value in the xbasic function by having the function pop up a message that shows the value. But somehow that doesn't get updated when setting focus to the panel with the page embedded in it.
                    Last edited by kingcarol; 06-20-2013, 11:23 AM.
                    Carol King
                    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                      Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                      So... for your thrilling entertainment of the day, I did a little video to show where I was at so far and trouble I'm having with session variables: http://screencast.com/t/oLwBMy9kp
                      Carol King
                      Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                      http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                        #12
                        Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                        Update: It appears that my session variable issue has been resolved by check marking 'Delay Render Until Visible' in the properties for my embedded a5w page of phone numbers.
                        Carol King
                        Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                        http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                          #13
                          Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                          Check out this video from Bob More: http://youtu.be/E8i899iDyKc

                          I think after you watch this you will be able to simplify what you are doing..
                          Last edited by Bill Griffin; 06-21-2013, 07:46 AM.
                          Bill Griffin
                          Parkell, Inc

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                            #14
                            Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                            That's really cool! And it taught me things as well.

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                              #15
                              Re: Active Phone number on smart phone?

                              Just watched Bob's video. Yes, Cool! Dumb question... when he shows the javascript in the List Events, is this line:
                              window.location = 'tel:'+this.value;
                              telling a touch device that this is a phone number? ie, is the prefix 'tel:' triggering the touch device to pop up the little Call window?
                              Last edited by kingcarol; 06-21-2013, 10:06 AM.
                              Carol King
                              Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                              http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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