Instant Messaging Actions, specifically Microsoft Office Communicator

FinalBuilder Feature Requests
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I would like to see Instant Messaging support added to FinalBuilder, specifically Microsoft Office Communicator.

Currently, our office uses Spark (a jabber client) for internal instant messaging.  I wrote a VB Script that I call from FinalBuilder through the DOS Command action (the script took various parameters, one of which was a list of users).  I used the instant messaging to notify users of code cutoffs, when servers were going down for the installation, when they came back up, etc.

Soon we may be moving away from Spark and implementing Microsoft Office Communicator.  I am searching for the API to allow me to write a similar script to the one used for send Jabber messages, but I haven't found it yet.

I would be much cleaner if FinalBuilder could provide an action for sending an instant message through Communicator and other IM (Yahoo, AIM, etc.).

I do LOVE the improvement to the email action that allows for providing a list instead of having to specify each user in the dialog.

I am a consultant and have recommended FinalBuilder to many of my clients and colleagues.

Thanks!

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We read from .ini file information like smtp host and recipient list (emails are seperated by semicolon char) and store those to FB project variables. in smtp email sending action, those variables are used in smtp host and recipient address list.

In that approach was one problem (it was due smtp limitations I think) that if the recipient list was long (over 1000 chars) the emails never arrived to the smtp server, so I had to make a batch email sender action group, which I called instead (it'll send emails in sets of 10 persons at time, til all recipients have been processed).

 

Maybe you could use similar approach.

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It will be nice to support Microsoft Office Communicator

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Any chance adding office communicator in FB 7 ?