Comments on: Fetch the Initial Text of Any SMS or Instant Message on Tropo http://blog.tropo.com/2010/01/29/fetch-the-initial-text-of-any-sms-or-instant-message-on-tropo/ THE platform for building cloud communications applications Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jonathan http://blog.tropo.com/2010/01/29/fetch-the-initial-text-of-any-sms-or-instant-message-on-tropo/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Jonathan Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:57:26 +0000 http://blogs.voxeo.com/tropo/?p=295#comment-203 Important note: You can also access the initial message by using "ask" or "prompt". The initial SMS / IM message is also queued up and will be supplied as input to that initial ask/prompt. ie if you just do answer(); result=ask( "What can I do for you?", {choices:"[any]"} ); The initial inbound SMS / IM will be supplied as the input to the ask. Important note: You can also access the initial message by using “ask” or “prompt”.

The initial SMS / IM message is also queued up and will be supplied as input to that initial ask/prompt.

ie if you just do

answer();

result=ask( “What can I do for you?”, {choices:”[any]“} );

The initial inbound SMS / IM will be supplied as the input to the ask.

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