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Group messages together for multiple numbers

wtfwjd

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Nov 20, 2013
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I'm looking for a way to group messages from multiple numbers into one thread.

Here's my situation. My work sends out a text everytime I am dispatched to a job location, but the number it comes from is always different. 555500001, then 555500002, etc. I have a profile set to change the SMS tone with numbers 55550**** so I at least know it's work related, but I'm looking to combine all of them into one thread. I'm up to 388 so far and it makes it pretty tough to find messages with people with all of those individually in the list.

Still pretty new to Tasker, so any help would be great.
 
I'm not actually sure that what you want to do is even possible. I don't think that Tasker has (or can get) the sort of low-level access it would need to be able to manipulate the SMS store like you're asking. The one thought that I did have was to use Tasker to add each new sending number to the same contact name in hopes that the threads would get merged together, but that doesn't appear to be (a) possible or (b) how it even works.

Sorry mate :(
 
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