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July 1998




			NINO Contacts - Contact and actions manager
			   DDE Link to identify incoming calls


Nino Contacts can receive incoming calls indication from a specialized software through a DDE link. It will look in its internal database to find the name associated with the phone, as well the actions concerning this name. The external program may also query Nino Contacts for information related to a phone number.

1°. Send a phone number to Nino Contacts

The phone number may be accompanied by a date/time indication:

	nnnnn!date
or
	nnnnnn

Notes:

- The size of the phone number is not limited
- Nino Contacts ignores any character that is not digit (0-9)
- The separator between the phone/date indications is "!" 
- The date/time indication has to be Windows compatible.


The external programl must activate a dedicated internal form "F-InCall" in Nino Contacts, using the phone number indication as a parameter. Calling example "212 123-4567":
[OpenForm F-InCall,,,,,, "212 123-4567"]

Nino Contacts can also receive multiple calls through this link. Any call will be stored in an internal phone call log list.

Example - Visual Basic procedure:

Function testCall()
Dim entCanal1 
Dim strCmd As String
Dim phone As String
Const comd1 = "[OpenForm F-InCall,,,,,, "
Const comd2 = "]" 
phone1 = "" & "01 22 33 44 55" & "!" & Now   'test with date info
phone2 = "" & "01 22 33 44 55" & "" 'test without date info 

entCanal1 = DDEInitiate("MSAccess", "D:\testdde\nino2den.mdb") 

DDEExecute entCanal1, comd1 & phone1 & comd2
DDEExecute entCanal1, comd1 & phone2 & comd2 

End Function 


2°  Obtain an information related to a phone number:

The external program activates an internal query in Nino Contacts. The answer format is as follows:

Date-call  Phone-number  Phone-type Name  FirstName  Company

The information returned concernes the LAST call to Nino Contacts presenting a phone number. The phone type is an indication supplied by Nino Contacts (office, assistant, private etc.). It depends how the phone number was stored in Nino Contacts.

Example: Visual Basic procedure :

Function testAppelGet() 

Dim entCanal1
Dim entCanal2 
Dim strCmd As String
Dim phone As String
Const comd1 = "[OpenForm F-InCall,,,,,, "
Const comd2 = "]" 
phone1 = "" & "01 11 22 33 44 55" & "!" & Now 

entCanal1 = DDEInitiate("MSAccess", "D:\testdde\nino2den.mdb") 
DDEExecute entCanal1, comd1 & phone1 & comd2 'send the phone nr

entCanal2 = DDEInitiate("MSAccess", "D:\testdde\nino2den.mdb;QUERY 
RqCallInfo")
chreponse2 = DDERequest(entCanal2, "FirstRow") 'request info

MsgBox chreponse2 'affichage de la réponse 

DDETerminate entCanal2
DDETerminate entCanal1

End Function


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