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Re: How do I catch href tel web link to dial a phone number?
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Re: How do I catch href tel web link to dial a phone number?


  • Subject: Re: How do I catch href tel web link to dial a phone number?
  • From: Takaaki Naganoya <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 00:07:55 +0900

> 2017/11/30 6:40、Bill Vlahos <email@hidden>のメール:
>
> I would like to catch the href tel link from a phone number on a web page to
> enable click to dial from a web page with our Zultys unified communications
> applications MXIE and ZAC.
>
> https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/native-hardware/click-to-call/
> has a great discussion and link on this which should work for Firefox and
> Chrome on Macintosh OS. For example Firefox prompts the user to choose which
> application to send it to.
>
> I wrote the following Automator Application expecting input to include
> “tel:+1-303-449-7111” as the input for Automator application but nothings
> seems to be passed to it. There probably is a way to catch it just with an
> AppleScript application but I don’t know how to do that.
>
> The Automator AppleScript portion is below.
>
> on run {input, parameters}
>       display dialog input
>       set output to ""
>       set vTemp to input as string
>       repeat with i from 1 to count of characters of vTemp
>               if "1234567890" contains item i of vTemp then set output to
> output & item i of vTemp
>       end repeat
>       display dialog output
>       return output
> end run
>
> How do I capture and pass the phone number to my script?

To receive the URL scheme “tel:”, the script have to run as an applet and have
a Info.plist entry to describe to receive URL scheme “tel:”.

I don’t have the experience with MXIE and ZAC (VoIP apps?). So, I don’t
understand why you want to write the script with Automator not with Script
Editor.


--
Takaaki Naganoya
email@hidden
http://piyocast.com/as/



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