Use Phone Number?

[Keith Hubert]

Hi Guys,

Is there a method to use the phone number from a record that is being displayed, to make a call?

[Clipper87]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Keith,

You app will need to be wrapped into Phonegap for that so that it can access the phone's hardware

[Bill Griffin]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Keith
Look at the similar threads below, particularly "Active phone number on a smart phone"

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Thanks Guys,

I was hoping there was somthing built in. I'll have to come back to this later in development

[Clipper87]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Keith,

If you use google on your mobile to look up some company then they may show stuff from places & then there's 3 links: call, directkions & website. So it is possible without wrapping.

quickly googled around and found <a href="tel:+15555555555">1-555-555-5555</a> is what you need, don't know about different browser support though.

[kkfin]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Thanks Guys,

I was hoping there was somthing built in. I'll have to come back to this later in development

There is a difference in mobile: native or not native.

[Ted Thomas]

Re: Use Phone Number?

I had the same problem. I used the on click event with the following code:

var pno = {dialog.Object}.getValue('HOMEPHONE');

if (A5.flags.supportsTouch !=false) {
	window.location = 'tel:'+pno;
} else {
	alert('Not running on a mobile phone device.');
}

I then formatted my field to be highlighted and underlined.

[CharlesParker]

Re: Use Phone Number?

I had the same problem. I used the on click event with the following code:

var pno = {dialog.Object}.getValue('HOMEPHONE');

if (A5.flags.supportsTouch !=false) {
	window.location = 'tel:'+pno;
} else {
	alert('Not running on a mobile phone device.');
}

I then formatted my field to be highlighted and underlined.

Thank you Ted! so simple when you know how!

[CharlesParker]

Re: Use Phone Number?

I have used this code on a button for quite some time in a grid component that is in a Tabbedui.
I decided to put the component on it's own page and instead of inserting a button in the Tabbedui to call the component, I now use a button in the tabbedui to call the page that has the component on it.
Now, the button action kills the page on a mobile device instead of calling the phone number, can anyone give me an idea why this has stopped working?

The only difference is that the component is now on an a5w and called from a button in a tabbedui, whereas before the component was simply called by itself into the tabbedui pane.

[leiferikburoe]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Hi
Here is a video about it.
hope this can help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qsbhcn1Zak

[CharlesParker]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Just to clarify. I have a tabbedUI. To call a component, I used a tabbed UI button to call the component, in that component I have a button with some inline javascript.

var cfpl = {grid.Object}.getValue('D','CALLED_FROM');

if (A5.flags.supportsTouch !=false) {
	window.location = 'tel:'+cfpl;
	}else {
			alert('Not on a mobile device.');
			}

Everything has been working fine. I decided to put the component on an A5W page of it's own and in the tabbed UI I used a tabbedUI button to insert the A5W page that has the component in it. Now, when I click the same button on my mobile device, the page crashes (this is on an android device). If I use my desktop, I do get the error alert.

What do you guys think is the show stopper here? Is it window.location? seems like that is lost once the component is set in an a5w page to me but I do not know what would be appropriate

[CharlesParker]

Re: Use Phone Number?

I have a list control that works fine, this is a different issue, thanks for the video though!

*Further testing has revealed that this is an error that only appears in Chrome on android, Safari in Android still works as expected.

[CharlesParker]

Re: Use Phone Number?

Anybody have this same error in Chrome or is it just me? It is repeatable for me on several different android devices using Chrome