How to auto truncate a message to forward with Outlook Rules

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Hello,

I need to be able to auto truncate an email message before forwarding it. Here is the scenario. I receive certain alerts from my telephone system. I need to be able to forward these alerts to cell phones. I don't need to send the entire body of the email (most cell phones cut off the important part because of too many characters anyway). The email subject is always the same so I can use Outlook rules to forward, but I need a script to truncate the message to just the info I need.

The subject is always: ShoreWare Event Notification: Switch: (1319)

The body of the email is always:

Computer: Servername

Version: 12.15.6700.0

Type: Warning

Date: 8/3/2010 9:53:33 AM

Source: ShoreWare

Category: (1) Switch

Event ID: 1319

Description:

Switch Switchname: Emergency Services Call to 911 on port 10.42.107.80 from user (Username) at (extension)

All I need to forward is the Description.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!
 
I'd suggest using an SMS addin - they can limit to 160 characters but not pick out a line within the message.

I'll ask around and see if anyone has a ready-to-use script that does this - if so, the run a script rule is what you'd use.
 
It is always the last line?

If so, from http://www.slovaktech.com offers this as starter code:

If it’s always the last line in Body the Body can be retrieved as a string and then parsed into lines using Split(sBody, vbCRLF) where sBody is the body string. That would return an array and the last array member is the return value:

Function ReturnLastLine(Item As Outlook.MailItem) As String

Dim sBody As String

Dim sLines() As String

Dim ret As String

sBody = Item.Body

sLines = Split(sBody, vbCRLF)

ret = sLines(UBound(sLines))

ReturnLastLine = ret

End Function
 
I'd suggest using an SMS addin - they can limit to 160 characters but not pick out a line within the message.

I'll ask around and see if anyone has a ready-to-use script that does this - if so, the run a script rule is what you'd use.

Thanks for checking:cool:
 
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