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Local Messages ! Bill Walters Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:40:02 -0500

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All - 

Since I had been one of the proponents of being able to leave "Local
Phone Messages" on your system, just like you used to be able to do with
ECS 3.X and Bigmouth, I thought it only proper that I thank Mark for
making it all possible in ECS 4.1!

THANKS MARK!

If you're interested, it's really simple and easy.  Here's what you need
to do:

Local Phone Messages:  Here's what I did.  First, created a true/false
item named "Flag_Rcd Local Msgs", and a text item "Rcd Local Msg" which
says "Pick up line one now and begin after the tone. Hang up when
done".  Then made my event as follows:

Event:Rcd Local Messages
Called ?: No

If       Flag_Rcd Local Msg      Is Now     True

; now turn on intercom via relay for ECS to speak

Then     Intercom                Set        High
Then     Msg_Rcd Local Msg       Set        Speak/W

; speaking done so turn the relay off

Then     Intercom                Set        Low
Then     Phone-Interface-C       Set        Record/W Local Msg
Then     Flag_Rcd Local Msg      Set        False



That's all there is to it!  Ecs will then name the message and put it in
your que of messages, just like telephone messages (incoming), or
rather, I guess, just like the old ECS 3.3 & Bigmouth card.

Anyway, it works like a champ and now on our touchscreen, we have a
button which says "Leave Message"; it will get a lot of use as we're
always leaving notes since we converted to ECS 4.X.

Bill Walters

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