[GUIDE][Difficulty: Beginner] Prompt to add Previous Caller as Contact

MishaalRahman · Mar 7, 2016

Do you find yourself annoyed having to manually add someone as a contact after receiving a phone call from them? Would you rather be prompted with the option to add them as a contact before you fumble going through the proper menus? This short tasker task will do just that for you, using the power of intents.

Prerequisites

OPTIONAL: Snackbar Tasker Plugin to make a neat prompt asking you to add the previous caller as a contact

Instructions

Click + to create a new Profile and name it "Add Contact" or anything else you want.
Choose a "State" context, go to "Phone" and select "Call." Set the Type to "Incoming" and leave the Number field blank.
Back out, and name the task that pops up whatever it is you want.

Here's what your Profile should look like. Now, let's move on to the task itself.

Task --> If. For the first condition, put %CNAME ~ %CNUM. This checks whether or not the previous caller already has a set name by comparing it to the phone number they called from. If the two match, then that means the contact is not recognized. Press the + icon to create another Condition, and make sure that the two Conditions are linked by an And. For the second Condition, set it to %CNUM !~ 0. This checks to see if the previous caller was an unknown/private number, and if so, you won't be prompted to add them as a contact.
OPTIONAL: Plugin --> Snackbar Tasker Plugin. Select a "Bottom Sheet". Enter the configuration for the snackbar, and enter a title for the dialog that will pop-up (I put "Add caller as contact?"). Under "Items to appear in sheet separated by ","" put down Yes,No. Under "Commands to be sent separated by "," enter yes,no. Take note that there should be NO space between the comma. For the color name fields, enter the hex name for however you want the snackbar to be themed. When you're done, exit out by pressing the checkmark, then press the back key when you're back inside Tasker.
System --> Send Intent. Under Action put in android.intent.action.INSERT For Cat, leave it at None. For the Mime Type, type in vnd.android.cursor.dir/raw_contact. Next, for the first Extra field type in phone:[%CNUM] Finally, scroll down to Target and select Activity. If you followed the optional step above to make a snackbar, then under If set the condition to %bs_command ~ yes. This means the intent will only be sent if you select yes when the snackbar pops up after a phone call.
Task --> End If

That's it! Let me know if there are any suggestions you would make.

Dovidhalevi · Mar 7, 2016

MishaalRahman said:
Do you find yourself annoyed having to manually add someone as a contact after receiving a phone call from them? Would you rather be prompted with the option to add them as a contact before you fumble going through the proper menus? This short tasker task will do just that for you, using the power of intents.

Prerequisites

OPTIONAL: Snackbar Tasker Plugin to make a neat prompt asking you to add the previous caller as a contact

Instructions

Click + to create a new Profile and name it "Add Contact" or anything else you want.

Choose a "State" context, go to "Phone" and select "Call." Set the Type to "Incoming" and leave the Number field blank.

Back out, and name the task that pops up whatever it is you want.

Here's what your Profile should look like. Now, let's move on to the task itself.

Task --> If. For the first condition, put %CNAME ~ %CNUM. This checks whether or not the previous caller already has a set name by comparing it to the phone number they called from. If the two match, then that means the contact is not recognized. Press the + icon to create another Condition, and make sure that the two Conditions are linked by an And. For the second Condition, set it to %CNUM !~ 0. This checks to see if the previous caller was an unknown/private number, and if so, you won't be prompted to add them as a contact.

OPTIONAL: Plugin --> Snackbar Tasker Plugin. Select a "Bottom Sheet". Enter the configuration for the snackbar, and enter a title for the dialog that will pop-up (I put "Add caller as contact?"). Under "Items to appear in sheet separated by ","" put down Yes,No. Under "Commands to be sent separated by "," enter yes,no. Take note that there should be NO space between the comma. For the color name fields, enter the hex name for however you want the snackbar to be themed. When you're done, exit out by pressing the checkmark, then press the back key when you're back inside Tasker.

System --> Send Intent. Under Action put in android.intent.action.INSERT For Cat, leave it at None. For the Mime Type, type in vnd.android.cursor.dir/raw_contact. Next, for the first Extra field type in phone:[%CNUM] Finally, scroll down to Target and select Activity. If you followed the optional step above to make a snackbar, then under If set the condition to %bs_command ~ yes. This means the intent will only be sent if you select yes when the snackbar pops up after a phone call.

Task --> End If

That's it! Let me know if there are any suggestions you would make.

Very nice, except I will never get this typed-in. Maybe publish the script that can be downloaded and inserted from tasker.

MishaalRahman · Mar 7, 2016

Dovidhalevi said:
Very nice, except I will never get this typed-in. Maybe publish the script that can be downloaded and inserted from tasker.

I added it as an attachment.

iamronin · Mar 8, 2016

Working great. Thank you.

AKW · Mar 8, 2016

Good stuff man. I'll test tomorrow.

Dovidhalevi · Mar 8, 2016

MishaalRahman said:
I added it as an attachment.

I had succeeded in doing this before. However, Tasker does not "see" this in either the projects or autimport folders. To where might I push it?

MishaalRahman · Mar 8, 2016

Dovidhalevi said:
I had succeeded in doing this before. However, Tasker does not "see" this in either the projects or autimport folders. To where might I push it?

It's a profile so it should go in the profile folder. To import a profile, you long-press on the "PROFILES" tab up top.

AKW · Mar 8, 2016

I notice that when I click "Yes" to add the caller as a contact, the phone number comes in the format [##########] with the brackets around it. Is there a way to make it come in the format +1 ###-###-#### ?

MishaalRahman · Mar 8, 2016

Akw6190 said:
I notice that when I click "Yes" to add the caller as a contact, the phone number comes in the format [##########] with the brackets around it. Is there a way to make it come in the format +1 ###-###-#### ?

The default intent action requires it to be formatted as such, as anything else simply makes the PHONE field end up as blank (not sure why). However, you can use AutoShare's intent builder with this intent in order to get around this. Credits to redditor /u/YoungKnave for this intent. You download this, import it into AutoShare, then inside Tasker rather than sending an intent through itself you would go to Plugin --> AutoShare and select the intent you imported. Then for the phone number, put %CNUM. I found that doing it this way properly formats it, however I didn't mention it above because AutoShare isn't a free app.

AKW · Mar 8, 2016

MishaalRahman said:
The default intent action requires it to be formatted as such, as anything else simply makes the PHONE field end up as blank (not sure why). However, you can use AutoShare's intent builder with this intent in order to get around this. Credits to redditor /u/YoungKnave for this intent. You download this, import it into AutoShare, then inside Tasker rather than sending an intent through itself you would go to Plugin --> AutoShare and select the intent you imported. Then for the phone number, put %CNUM. I found that doing it this way properly formats it, however I didn't mention it above because AutoShare isn't a free app.

Understood. I'll look into it. Thank you, sir.

Dovidhalevi · Mar 8, 2016

MishaalRahman said:
It's a profile so it should go in the profile folder. To import a profile, you long-press on the "PROFILES" tab up top.

Found the profiles folder and moved it to there and was able to import it (one thing about tasker are all those non-intuitive, even hidden functions to try out, somehow

)

Needs a Bottom Sheet and an AutoShare plugin. What do I install? A lot of plugins with paid additions by one author.

arbolarc · Mar 8, 2016

I tried this but I keep getting red marks on the if statement. Is there something I did wrong? Also, I couldnt download the file. How do I download it?
Thanks

arbolarc · Mar 8, 2016

Also, when I tried to import the profile, it kept saying failed to import profile data :/

C114 · Mar 8, 2016

Ok, most stupid question ever. Where do i get the tasker from?

MishaalRahman · Mar 9, 2016

Dovidhalevi said:
Found the profiles folder and moved it to there and was able to import it (one thing about tasker are all those non-intuitive, even hidden functions to try out, somehow )

Needs a Bottom Sheet and an AutoShare plugin. What do I install? A lot of plugins with paid additions by one author.

Snackbar Tasker Plugin and AutoShare are completely optional for this profile. The XML I attached uses it because I have paid for it and already use it frequently, but if you follow the instructions I've written above then you do not need to use either.

It might seem odd, but once you get into Tasker you will notice a recurring name in the most frequently recommended plugins: joaomgcd. This guy is a wizard at Tasker, and has made dozens of Tasker plugins. While you CAN do things without his plugins (as I've written) it does make things neater and simpler. It's up to you though.

arbolarc said:
I tried this but I keep getting red marks on the if statement. Is there something I did wrong? Also, I couldnt download the file. How do I download it?
Thanks

The red marks are fine. They simply mean that RIGHT NOW if you were to run the task it would fail the If statement. Meaning, the last phone call you had was from a recognized phone number, hence Tasker would fail this condition since it should only fire when the previous caller is not a recognized contact.

C114 said:
Ok, most stupid question ever. Where do i get the tasker from?

There are no stupid questions here! Here you go.

Dovidhalevi · Mar 9, 2016

MishaalRahman said:
Snackbar Tasker Plugin and AutoShare are completely optional for this profile. The XML I attached uses it because I have paid for it and already use it frequently, but if you follow the instructions I've written above then you do not need to use either.

I installed them, not yet paid up. However, if I can get along without them, I already have a pretty crowded phone so a couple less apps would not hurt.

As I said, the problem is hand-entering all this stuff. Please attach a "virgin" version as well. Folks could try them both, see if they prefer snackbar's eye-candy or going bare is good enough. Unless I intend very involved usage, AutoShare might be overkill.

crunchybutternut · Mar 9, 2016

Not sure what I am missing, but the Send Intent action never fires for me, as the IF statement never passes.
I added a Flash action to verify that the %bs_command variable is being set correctly, and it appears to be.
Any ideas?

EDIT: Scratch that.. looks like my phone autocorrected one of the commands in the Send Intent action. Working now!

pencari · Mar 10, 2016

Nevernind i found the way

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