Then, I invoke the click action on the DOM element – as if you’d clicked it.

I then added this link to the page DOM (it had no text so you wouldn’t see it). The approach I ended up taking in the end was to create a new anchor tag with a link to a TEL address, made up of the selected text. I wanted to avoid doing this if at all possible. When I wrote the Internet Explorer version I had to open a new page and then use window.move to navigate to the TEL:// URI. It just falls into the slightly murky waters of websites controlling local applications, so it’s not something that browsers let you do easily. Invoking a local application using a protocol such as TEL from a website is actually quite tricky. There are thousands (millions?) of Chrome plugins, and so people will only find this one if it’s well rated. I just have one request: if you use it and like it, please rate it. The source is over at GitHub if you want to see how it’s done (or read on for more technical detail). The plugin is available now on the Chrome Web Store, totally free. (if this isn’t Skype for Business you can easily change it by going to Control Panel > Programs >Default Programs): This will take the selected text and parse it with the tel: protocol – this means that it will open with whatever application you have associated on your computer with the TEL protocol. It’s very simple, for any text you select and right-click on, a new “Call in Skype for Business” menu option will be shown. So I wrote a small Chrome plugin to automate this functionality. Skype for Business Click to Call Google Chrome ExtensionĪaaaages ago, I wrote a small plugin for Internet Explorer to allow you to select a phone number on a webpage and call it in (what was then) Lync.įast forward just over 4 years and I found myself selecting a phone number in Google Chrome and wondering why I couldn’t automatically call it in Skype for Business.

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