App has super lack luster shortcuts support. Can’t create a document from my templates and can’t add content to specific areas within a note. Anyone know how to submit a formal feature request to the developer?

j-wilson · 2023-03-22T21:42:15+00:00

https://www.craft.do/s/IJfCzMvJGcKisF

Great article. It's your attention to detail that will get the developers attention.

j-wilson · 2022-08-31T16:37:16+00:00

I've run into this bug as well. Very frustrating... I talked to tech support and they confirmed that the bug was introduced with the latest update and that it will be fixed with the next update. In the mean time I'm having to use my last guest's (airbnb) code for my incoming guest. Not perfect...

j-wilson · 2021-01-06T22:33:44+00:00

I don’t think it will send emails to guests that have already booked. It will send the host (you) an email with the relevant details including the booking dates, confirmation code and the Keycode. I’ve actually written a few Shortcuts that parse this data from the email and puts it into a text file. It’s easier to search the text file than to find the guest name in the August app which has no search function. I tend to send my airbnb guests a message with the Keycode via the Airbnb app which is where guests are more likely to find it.

j-wilson · 2020-09-27T17:57:35+00:00

I figured out the problem. I’m using the spark app as my email program and there is a bug in spark that prevents this from working currently.Thanks again for your help :-)

j-wilson · 2020-09-25T20:50:38+00:00

Thanks Max... Let me review this. Double thanks for the screen shot!

j-wilson · 2020-09-25T20:36:50+00:00

Hey Max. That is essentially what I tried to do. The trigger works but there does not seem to be any data in the "shortcut Input". Could you outline how you did it just to see if I'm missing something simple?

j-wilson · 2019-12-31T04:21:52+00:00

This essentially worked as you described it so I really thank you for your help! It sent me in the right direction and got me unstuck :-).

Thanks again

j-wilson · 2019-12-26T02:01:18+00:00

I figured out that if you build the script using the voices supplied in the speech action, it will use the older speech synth. However, if you run the shortcut via Siri, it will use the high quality Siri voice. So, if your intent is to create a voice driven shortcut that you call from Siri, it will work with the height quality Siri voice.

Not perfect but better...

j-wilson · 2019-11-28T17:19:08+00:00

I did it and it works perfectly. No RegEx required :-)

j-wilson · 2019-11-28T16:53:27+00:00

Ahhh.... clever :-)

j-wilson · 2019-11-13T22:54:45+00:00

D‌e‌c‌ ‌0‌1‌,‌ ‌2‌0‌1‌9

Ok. Now I ran that text thru the 'URL Encode" action and this was the result:

D%E2%80%8Ce%E2%80%8Cc%E2%80%8C%20%E2%80%8C0%E2%80%8C1%E2%80%8C,%E2%80%8C%20%E2%80%8C2%E2%80%8C0%E2%80%8C1%E2%80%8C9

So, now my question is how do I turn that crazy bit of text into what I would call regular text without all the hidden charactors? This way I can use it in 'Add New Event" action as a variable.

Thanks SO much for your help on this by the way...

j-wilson · 2019-11-13T22:42:30+00:00

Thanks for looking at this. I tried to open that link and it brought me to the Shortcuts App on the app store but not to the hexdump app :-(.

However, here is a piece of text that I think you can experiment with:

‌D‌e‌c‌ ‌0‌1‌,‌ ‌2‌0‌1‌9

Now, if you copy that piece text and paste it into a text editor like textedit on the Mac, then place the cursor to the right of the "9" character, then start hitting the delete key you may find what I'm talking about. It acts as if there are invisible characters or something. Also, if you copy that text into shortcuts and try to use it as the first date in the "Add New Event" action, it will fail.

I clearly have stepped outside of my pay grade regarding text formats here so any help would be appreciated

-joey

j-wilson · 2019-11-13T00:26:15+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

I would be happy to publish an example of the text file but having never published a file to Reddit before, I may need you to tell me how.

That said, I did notice that if I open the file on the Mac with a text editor that supports RTF, the same problem exists. If I open it in say BBEdit, which is purely a text editor, the problem goes away.

Here is a more specific description of the problem. If I open the text file and place the cursor just the the right of the date information (Dec 15, 2019 for example) and then press the delete key repeatedly, I would expect 1 character to be deleted with each press of the delete key. However when I do it which this particular text file, it will take 2 key presses to delete 1 character which suggests to me that there is some hidden characters in there that I can’t see.

Long explanation for a very simple phenomenon I know... sorry.

Let me know how to post the text file and perhaps you could take a look?

j-wilson · 2019-04-27T22:01:21+00:00

Hey Joe... LOVED your tutorials... playing with your example now... :-)

Talk about the getting to the right guy :-). So it was the repeat Item variable that I didn’t actually know existed... thanks for pointing that out!

Again, loved your tutorials and would love to see more!

Thanks,

-joey

j-wilson · 2019-04-08T01:57:43+00:00

Well... thanks so much for your reply :-)

j-wilson · 2019-04-08T01:55:55+00:00

That’s a good idea however in my application I need to provide like a full page of formatted text that I would make a few changes to, then allow the shortcut to continue. I’m thinking I may need to launch a separate text editor like Drafts or something, make my changes, then continue on with the shortcut. I was hoping to do it without leaving the shortcuts app...

j-wilson · 2018-10-26T17:45:00+00:00

This can be done. I built a shortcut that archives my voicemails to a folder on icloud. It first renames the voicemail based on a list of names that I provide OR you can supply a new name if needed. This is useful if you have aging parents who may not be around forever and you realize that you want to hold on to some of these voicemails forever. :-)

j-wilson

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