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Auto text forward not working properly

mvtw

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Hi

I work for a company where all IT staff are enrolled in a monthly system monitoring rotation. Any system notifications are distributed directly to a company phone from an internal system via text message. Rather than having to carry two phones when we are "on duty" we currently have the company phone set up with sms auto forward to our personal phones using a feature native with the company phone OS. The problem is that the current company phone is on its dying breath. I have therefor purchased a new phone with no native auto forward text feature, Huawei y6 pro (Android 5.1. Lollipop). Since there is no native auto forward text support with this OS, I have installed Tasker for this purpose. The problem is that the text forwarding I have configured is not behaving per expectation. The text messages sent to the company phone is primarily from two recipients.

a) from a masked number with sender ID "warning"
b) from a visible 8 digit phone number

In order to successfully forward text messages from recipient a), I had to define a profile where Sender name explicitly is set as "warning". However, while profile (3) is active, any texts from recipient b) is not forwarded.

If I deactivate profile (3), auto forwarding from recipient b) is working, but not from recipient a). Why is auto text forwarding not working for both recipients simultaneously when both profiles are active?

Anyone understand why I face this issue?

Thanks!

Profile: Forward warning (3)
Event: Received Text [ Type:Any Sender:warning Content:* ]
Enter: Forward SMS (5)

Profile: Forward Any (4)
Event: Received Text [ Type:Any Sender:C:ANY Content:* ]
Enter: Forward SMS (5)

Task: Forward SMS (5)
A1: Send SMS [ Number:99999999 Message:%SMSRB Store In Messaging App:On ]
 
I would think the following would do what you want after you add a contact in your phonebook with the name warning.

Profile: Forward
Event: Received Text [ Type:Any Sender:C:ANY Content:* ]
Enter: Anon
A1: Send SMS [ Number:9999999999 Message:%SMSRB Store In Messaging App:Off ]

(I have no way to test it to make sure.)

... Thom
 
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