How to make meeting link open in sample app?

Meeting SDK macOS
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Hi, I downloaded the sample app for Mac OS and would like to give it my own name and logo and then have meetings open in it when users click meeting links. I have set a custom URL scheme in Xcode (myurlscheme://). What would be the next steps to get meetings to open automatically in the sample app by users clicking links with my custom URL scheme in their browsers? I don’t want users to have to log in to the sample app; I just want it to launch automatically and connect automatically to a meeting when someone clicks a link with my custom URL scheme. Thanks.

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Hi Bert,

Since you already defined your own URL shceme, I assume that now you can click the link and open the app, the next step for you is to fetch the meeting information in the URL. For example: meeting ID.

Best

Wei

 

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Hi Wei, thanks a lot for the reply. I should have been more clear in my question. The sample app is hard-coded to access only a single meeting room (in this case, 7171717171):

        if ([authService isAuthorized])

        {   meetingService.delegate = self;

            ret =[meetingService joinMeeting:ZoomSDKUserType_ZoomUser toke4enfrocelogin:nil webinarToken:nil  participantId:@“10” meetingNumber:@“7171717171” displayName:@“TOTTI” password:@"" isDirectShare:NO sharedApp:0 isVideoOff:NO isAuidoOff:NO];

        }

When I enter myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890 in my browser, the sample app opens (because I have modified it to recognize my URL scheme). however, no meeting begins. I need help figuring out how to modify the sample app code to that a meeting launches when myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890 is clicked.

Thanks,

Bert

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Hi Bert,

in the example you provided: myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890, 1234567890 is the meeting ID that you need to fetch and pass to the joinMeeting functions, you can make a place holder for the meeting ID: (NSString*)meeting ID. and replace meetingNumber:@“7171717171”. 

You can do some research on how to fetch and store information in URL in Objective-c.

Best

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Thanks a lot Wei. After reading your message I changed

meetingNumber:@“7171717171”

to

meetingNumber:(NSString*)meeting ID

but got a build error (“use of undeclared identifier ‘meeting’”) as in the attached screenshot. Is there something different I should do so that when people click myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890 the sample app launches meeting number 1234567890?

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Hi Bert,

you have to declare the meeting ID as a string object first, then you still need to figure out by yourself about how to get the id(1234567890) from the URL. Zoom iOS SDK won’t do that for you.

Best

 

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got it, thanks. i’ll research how to get the meeting id from the URL. in the meantime, is it possible to change the sample app to allow a user to input a meeting ID manually? something like:

meetingNumber:(NSString*)whatever-the-user-entered

could you point me in the right direction to get started trying with that? thanks

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and can you give me a few tips on where to look/what to read to get the meeting id from the URL to use it as a string object? i’m learning as a i go. thanks

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Hi Bert,

the sample provided by Zoom has sample about how to create a place holder and let user input, then get the user input value, please take a look.

for fetch string from URL, please take a look @ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17839058/objective-c-get-string-from-url

Best

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Thanks Wei. When you said, “The sample provided by Zoom has sample about how to create a place holder and let user input, then get the user input value, please take a look,” where did you mean to look?

I’ll look at that link you sent about getting strings from URLs. Thanks for the tip.

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Hi Bert,

for example, after you pass the authentication, you can click on H323 and you will see:

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you can take a look at how do we get the pair code and meeting number from the user input.

Best

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Hi Wei, I read the link you sent but it didn’t really help me make any progress on getting the ID string from a URL. Could you help me figure out what code I need to insert in the Zoom sample app to make that work? Thanks.

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Hi Bert,

please consider the URL as a string too. The problem here for you is to get a sub-string from a string object. That’s a programming issue and please do some research on it. 

Best

 

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Agree with Wei@Zoom. This should be pretty straightforward if you are an obj-C developer. 

If the URL is myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890

check out the pathComponent property https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsurl#//apple_ref/occ/instp/NSURL/pathComponents

NSURL *myUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"myurlscheme://zoom.us/j/1234567890"];NSString *lastPathComponent = [myUrl lastPathComponent];

This should give you the meeting id. 

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Thanks Frank. I actually don’t want to hard-code any particular meeting ID in the sample app. Rather, I just want the sample app to automatically open a conference based on the meeting ID in the URL when a link is clicked. Any idea how to do that? Thanks.

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why do you have to hard code anything ? Zoom meeting URL is just an URL and my 2 line code showed you how to get the last part of the URL which is a meeting id. 

 

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Marking as solved.

-Tommy