Question

I was looking the way to create a Task from an email at my Google Account with a filter. I’ve read this tutorial and it worked like a charm: http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/2011/10/automated-email-to-task-mechanism-with-google-apps-script/

The only bad thing is that the script creates a task with the subject of the message, and it’s not really descriptive for me, because they are automatic messages, and all of them have the same subject.
I want the Task Title be a specific line of the email body, can anybody helpme with this?

Answer 1

Yes, basically you would get the message body and extract what you need from it. I’m not sure about the structure of your email but you need something in there that tells you the start and end of the task title, once you tell me what it is i can incorporate it in to the code. For now this is how you would set the body as the title.

var message     = thread.getMessages()[0]; // get first message
var messagebody = message.getBody(); 
var body_array  = messagebody.split('Sender:'); 
var taskTitle   = ''; 

if( body_array.length < 2 ) 
    taskTitle = 'No title specified in email after Sender:'; 
else 
{
    var text    = body_array[1]; 
    taskTitle   = text.split('<br />')[0].trim();  

}