Using Open URL to trigger a phone call

TWEAmazingApps

Hi GS Community i was wondering if someone can help me, i was searching the forums a couple of weeks ago in regards to the open url behavior and one thread was talking about how you can use the open url to trigger a phone call, but then at the end of the thread someone said that that feature was taken out of gamesalad with the most recent updates then that person when on to state that "you would have to link to a website that would trigger the phone call instead" i was wondering if anyone knew how to do this or knew how i can have an actor press a button and it calls a certain number. Thanks!

jonmulcahy

Open a webpage and have that page forward to a URL like

Tel://5554443321

MarkOnTheIron

Or send a bug report to GS asking to add it along with more useful things (itms-apps://) to the drop down menu of the Open URL behavior.

Maybe if more people ask them this they will do something. Come on how hard would it be to add them? [-O<

jonmulcahy

You could do it manually by having a bunch of forwarding webpages and a bunch of rules in gs.

I wish the URL field was an expression editor, I swear I saw it in a beta once, but it was so long ago i could have imagined it.

TWEAmazingApps

Thanks jon, that was insightful, the only problem is that i wanted to be able to have it call dynamically, in other words, have different numbers depending on the numbers in a table or something of that sort. I guess i cant do that with the message you gave.

@Mark
and its not a bad idea to drop a note to GS to add it, but i was hoping for more of a now solution

TWEAmazingApps

so lets say someone wants to dial 418-676-7777 what kind of rule i could possible make in gamesalad that would make my webpage forward to that number?

i wish there was an expression editor in their too it would have made doing this a piece of cake! thanks for all your help.

jonmulcahy

oh, so you are inputting the number? I thought you would have a bunch of pre-saved values. I'm not sure you can input a number and then dial it.

scitunes

Being able to send and receive attributes would be sooooooo nice! It would allow me to make an iPad version of my science curriculum with the added feature of being aboe to track the students' progress.

I so want this feature!

EatingMyHat

I actually liked the old URL that didn't restrict you to HTTP, HTTPS and MAILTO, but the one things that is really missing is an expression box to the URL. I believe this is the last behavior that doesn't have one.

TWEAmazingApps

@jonmulcahy yes i want the user to have a number that they want to dial.