I have an addon in Outlook which adds warning to mailbody and links in the email when email is coming from external or untrusted sources.
Anyway, when I replace something in body, when email is opened in full view (no reading pane, double click full view of mail item), I hook mailItem close even and I discard changes, everything works well. (mailitem.onclose(olDiscard))
When I do this with reading pane on, when I discard the changes, Outlook still either saves the changes or when user is trying to close Outlook it asks user "Do you want to save changes to ....." and if user clicked on multiple emails during this period, it shows popup question for ALL emails user clicked and we replaced its body.
What's the solution here? What can I do to fix this? I want to make changes to link and to body, but discard them when user clicks away on another email. End goal is not having Outlook to ask user "Do you want to save changes ..." popups. Please advise.
I can't also make changes to inspector, because inspector is read-only.
P.S. plugin is written in C++.
The solution is to avoid modifying the message body if you do not want to keep the changes.
If you want to show a warning to the user, add a task pane to the inspector. Or simply stamp the message with a category - it will be shown in the inspector.
The Outlook object model doesn't provide anything for handling hyperlinks clicks. As a possible workaround you may consider implementing the following functionality:
When the item is selected or opened in Outlook you may replace the original URL with your own where you can pass the original URL as an encoded parameter if needed. So, if it is allowed to open the URL you can redirect the request further. Note, you can use the SelectionChange event of the Explorer class which is fired when the user selects a different or additional Microsoft Outlook item programmatically or by interacting with the user interface. This event also occurs when the user (either programmatically or via the user interface) clicks or switches to a different folder that contains items, because Outlook automatically selects the first item in that folder. However, this event does not occur if the folder is a file-system folder or if any folder with a current Web view is displayed.
Also you may consider handling the Open event of Outlook items which is fired when an instance of the parent object is being opened in an Inspector. When this event occurs, the Inspector object is initialized but not yet displayed. The Open event differs from the Read event in that Read occurs whenever the user selects the item in a view that supports in-cell editing as well as when the item is being opened in an inspector.
Another possible solution is to register a custom URL handler. So, basically, your registered application will be launched instead of a web browser where you can decide whether to launch a web browser and follow the URL or not. See Installing and Registering Protocol Handlers for more information.
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Dialogflow ES has an event called 'WELCOME' which makes it possible for the bot to initiate the conversation.
How can I do the same in Dialogflow CX?
There is no entry fulfillment option in the Start Page of Dialogflow CX.
Edit:
Delete the 'Default Welcome Intent' route.
I am unable to perform this. I get the following error.
In 'Default Welcome Intent' change the intent from 'WELCOME' to nothing.
I get the following error. I have set the condition to true. I have also set the page transition to 'onboarding' page.
Please let me know if more screenshots are required.
To accomplish what you're asking, the easiest way would be to:
Open the "Default Start Flow" and select its Start page.
Remove all routes and add a new one.
This new route takes a "custom condition" in the form of true (in the condition pane, click on customize expression and then just type true) and goes to a new page
called "Onboarding" (on the bottom of the route creation page, click on new page and name it Onboarding).
Go to the Onboarding page and add an entry fulfilment "Hello there, how are you doing today?"
in this way every time the default start flow is activated (window is opened) the bot will use that fulfilment.
EDIT:
ok, i tried creating a new agent and i think i solved the problem.
it seems as though we can't erase the default welcome intent, but it doesn't matter.
i created two pages: onboarding and first page. from start i added an always true route to the onboarding page, and i did the same with the onboarding and first page. As you can see from the testing console we only get the expected behaviour for the second transition, look at this:
start page:
onboarding page:
"first" page:
After looking for info on the documentation i think i understood this: from the testing console, google doesn't let you see the actual behaviour of the conversation. If you see the screenshots, when i say "hi" and go the the onboarding page, i get immediately brought to the next page by that "true" transition. Since the same exact sequence is on the start page, the same behaviour should apply there: you only can't see it in the console because "opening the window" in the console is not the same as opening the conversation "in real life".
So, what i suggest you to do is create a new integration or develop a testing environment for the bot, say a website with the messenger integration, a telephony integration or whatever else, and test this onboarding on there. Speaking from personal experience, try with the messenger one maybe: you get a link and you just embed the script in any webpage (works well and easy).
It should work, as in, as soon as you open the conversation, the bot should go the onboarding page and say "hello there!"
So, I'm not sure what your end use-case is, but DFCX (at it's core) isn't exactly designed to initiate an unsolicited message because it's really just a language model with a bunch of features built on top of it.
With that being said, if you want to create a pop-up window for your website chat-widget, you can actually configure this in the integration settings with your embed code. Here's an example:
//The DF Messenger element:
<df-messenger df-cx="true" chat-title="Agent Name" agent-id="<your agent ID>" language-code="en" expand="true"></df-messenger>
//The window load script :
<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/dialogflow-console/fast/messenger-cx/bootstrap.js?v=1"></script><script>
window.addEventListener('dfMessengerLoaded', function (event) {
const dfMessenger = document.querySelector('df-messenger');
const openText = ('<The Text You Want To Display On Page Load>');
dfMessenger.renderCustomText(openText);
});
</script>
Please note this will only work if you have the DF Messenger Integration enabled on your agent. See the docs for integrating DF Messenger here
1.Use the attribute intent inside the df-messenger tag in your UI/HTML page
2.Then create a Custom Event in Dialogflow CX (By clicking on Event handler '+' icon)
3.Check the 'use custom event' checkbox and provide event name and provide a text response in fulfillment section of this custom event.
4.Finally provide this custom event name as value to the attribute intent(mentioned in step 1)
please refer to this document for df-messenger HTML customizations https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/cx/docs/concept/integration/dialogflow-messenger#html-customize
According to Dialogflow CX documentation, the WELCOME event (although not visible in the Start flow) is also available. As you can see in this link and the picture below.
To invoke this event, you have to use the detectIntent method of a Session client. You'll need to specify the event name in queryInput.event.event of the request used in detectIntent.
Hope this helps!
I'm using Postman to test API and like its GUI and ease of use. But some things it does are completely incomprehensible to me. Example: I save an API request to a collection. Sometime later I try to recall it and it has changed. Why?
Scenario: testing against ElasticSearch API
GET _cat/indices.
Save to collection ElasticSearch.
Send other ES API requests.
Delete an index: DELETE /index0
Recall saved _cat/indices
Instead DELETE /index0 is recalled. Why?
It is possible that you turned off the "Always ask when closing unsaved tabs" option in Settings -> General. When this is off, it does not require you to hit Save, it will automatically save when the tab is closed.
Postman has tabs along the top, where each tab holds the data for a given request. When you edit the contents of a tab, you are editing the saved request as well. If you manually hit "save", the changes to the request are saved.
The way to avoid this would be to make sure that any time you are writing a new request and not intending to make it a change to an existing one, you do it in a new request tab (click the + button on the tab line), which you can then optionally save as a new named request.
To Turn Off Autosave, do the following:
Go to Settings -> General
Turn On Always ask when closing unsaved tabs.
Open a saved request, then change something in the request.
Close the request tab. Postman will ask if you want to save the changes. There will be a checkbox "to always discard unsaved changes". Tick the checkbox.
Click on "Don't Save".
I have created an Outlook add-in. When any mail is opened/previewed in Outlook, I want my add-in to update the body of the mail. And when the mail is closed or the preview is closed, I want the changes to be reverted back to the original changes.
For this I have tracked the SelectionChange event.
Inside its handler:
I have obtained the Active Explorer using mApp->ActiveExplorer(&mExplorer) function
Then obtained selection from explorer using mExplorer->get_Selection(&lSelection)
Then obtained the mail item from Selection using QueryInterface()
On this mail item, I am updating the body using put_HTMLBody() function
Now, when the user clicks on any other mail, I want to discard the changes I made.
However, the mail item gets saved and Outlook also creates another mail as well.
I want to discard the changes in all cases like if the user double clicks and opens the mail and closes it.
How can I discard the changes made to any mail item?
Don't do that. Temporary changing anything in Outlook never works well. If you want to display your own data, display it in your own control / custom form /etc.
Currently, the below FB.api function is invoked on a click event and posts a user story on the user's timeline (the FB app is in sandbox mode right now and the user story is still pending review):
FB.api( // creating the user story
'/userid/mynamespace:myaction',
'post',
{
myobject: fbObjectId, // retrieved in an earlier FB.api call
access_token: accessToken, // retrieved in an earlier FB.getLoginStatus call
message: customTextFromUser, // prefilled by my app (FB doesn't approve of this)
image: ImageURL, // prefilled by my app (FB is OK with this I think)
'fb:explicitly_shared': true // requires that I take the user out of the normal flow of the app which is why I want to show a modal first
},
function(response) {
// handle the response
console.log(response);
if (response.id) {
alert("Success! The user story has been shared on Facebook!");
} else {
alert("Woops! Something went wrong sharing the user story on Facebook. Please try again.");
}
}
);
What I think I need to do is show a modal dialog box such as in the case of when FB.ui is invoked to give the user an opportunity to add a User Message and then post the user story along with the User Message (if any).
Will I need to create my own custom modal dialog box or can I use FB.ui in some way to achieve this?
Note: The above API call works fine in my tests. Granted, variables such as mynamespace, myobject, and myaction have been obscured in the above code sample.
My real problem is the user story is just not being approved by Facebook because I supposedly need to "take the user out of the normal flow of the app" in order to Explicitly Share the user story with an additional optional User Message. I guess I need a strategy to address this issue rather than a specific code sample answer.
Here is the latest feedback I got from Facebook:
Your action doesn’t follow section IV.2 of the Platform Policies:
https://developers.facebook.com/policy/.
Words in the user message field must be manually written by the user
and can’t be pre-filled by the app, even if the user can edit or
delete the words. Learn more about user messages:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/submission-process/opengraph/guidelines/action-properties/#usermessages.
Posting explicitly shared content needs to be optional for users. A
sharing control needs to be in-line whenever a user shares something
and it can’t be in a separate settings area. The content should have a
user-generated component or the user needs to be taken out of the
natural flow of the app in order to decide to publish the story back
to Facebook. Your current action integration shouldn’t be labeled as
“explicitly shared.” Learn more about explicitly shared content:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/submission-process/opengraph/guidelines/action-properties/#explicitlyshared.
If you use a test user created for your App, or use your developer account, you should be able to see the story published before it's approved.
The API call you're making also needs to be updated slightly. Instead of using User ID in the FB.api, just use /me/mynamespace:myaction. The access_token also doesn't need to be included, as it's automatically passed by the call providing the user is logged in.
Finally, is your object actually called myobject? The name must match the settings you entered for your story, e.g. 'article` or another valid type.
To help debug the issue, try a simple API call first (e.g. remove message and image) and see what happens. Then add the other parameters back one by one to see which one is causing the issue.
Edit
To get the action approved, you need to make sure the user is entering a custom message in one form or another - usually via text input on the page. If you are sharing pre-defined text the user hasn't entered, facebook won't approve it.
If you want to share a pre-written message, it might be better to share it in another way, like a caption in the story itself.
I am working in an application. In this user enter his email id to get the some application setting.
After some time he will get mail with settings embedded and an apply button. Once user click on that we need to set the setting (in some file or registry).
Desktop application will read the setting(File / Registry) once it is launched.
This is the requirement. My question is,
How to call Win32/MFC application on clicking apply button with setting parameter.
You cannot arbitrarily execute something in an email message for obvious reasons.
The closest integration you could get would be to pass the configuration data as an argument to a custom URL handler in an HTML anchor; your mileage would likely vary wildly depending on browser/email client/webmail service so this is a bad idea.
Far better to simply send the configuration as an attachment with a file extension associated with your application and tell the user to open it, your app reads the config file and your done.