Re: Can Tasker be made to manage calls by Group name?

[Pent]

> Can Tasker be made to do call blocking or sending to voice mail based on
> Group name in the Android Contacts?

Sorry, not yet.

> And this is probably the easy one:
> Anonymous (caller has hidden his caller ID) goes straight to voice mail.

Should be if you put x in the caller field (if I remember right). You
could
also try !+ (translation: not one or more characters).

Pent

[Brad Minion]

I wonder if you could work around this by adding a prefix to the names in your contact list such as G1- for group 1, G2- for group 2, etc. Then could you direct calls based on "G1*", "G2*, etc?

 

For people and businesses that I want to keep in my contact list but don't want them to be mixed in with my main contact list, I add a lower case "z" to the front of their name. This forces them to the bottom of my contact list. They are still there but just out of the way.

[Petr Řezníček]

Hi Pent.

Will be this feature ever made?

There are many people that waiting for this.

Dne středa, 5. září 2012 8:05:45 UTC+2 Pent napsal(a):

[Pent]

> Will be this feature ever made?

I hope so.

> There are many people that waiting for this.

Unfortunately, a lot more were complaining about the UI.

Pent

[Hertfordkc]

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:24:07 AM UTC-4, Brad Minion wrote:

I wonder if you could work around this by adding a prefix to the names in your contact list such as G1- for group 1, G2- for group 2, etc. Then could you direct calls based on "G1*", "G2*, etc?

 

For people and businesses that I want to keep in my contact list but don't want them to be mixed in with my main contact list, I add a lower case "z" to the front of their name. This forces them to the bottom of my contact list. They are still there but just out of the way.

This is the way to go.  I searched and struggled for more than a year before solving the problem with this technique.  Not only is it applicable to call blocking, but also tailoring how you answer your calls.