[Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for Asterisk

[Brian West]

Their is this really nice ifdef which should really be a config file option
its called PRI_ANI in chan_zap.

/b


On 9/23/05 11:16 AM, "Gilmore, Gerry" <gerry.gilmore at intel.com> wrote:

> Chuck,
>  
> Actually, Caller ID cannot ­ so far as I know ­ ³easily be spoofed². While you
> can usually disable sending ³caller ID² by the *6x method, be aware that if
> you call an 800 number, that 800 number *will* get the calling party number.
> It¹s needed for billing the 800# recipient.
>  
> With PRI, if you have it correctly provisioned by the carrier and they support
> it, etc., you can legitimately spoof a caller name and number, but I doubt a
> nurse or janitor would maintain a PRI line to do this. J
>  
> Gerry
>  
> 
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and
> those who don't.
>  
> Gerry Gilmore
> Field Applications Engineer
> Intel Corporation
> (http://www.intel.com)
>  
> 
> 
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Bunn
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:14 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for Asterisk
>  
> Joseph wrote: 
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:34 -0600, Chuck Bunn wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I am in the process of developing a time card application that
>> integrates with Asterisk and I would like to know if anyone has done
>> this and if so can you recommend an open source time card application
>> that might reduce the amount of work required to connect it to Asterisk.
>> I do not want to reinvent the wheel and write a WEB based time card app,
>> I would rather spend my time getting Asterisk to connect to it. I will
>> be using LAMP so it will be written in PHP instead of C...
>>  
>> Thanks
>>     
>  
> Do you mean employee time-card? With mysql database this would be very
> interesting project.
> Do you have a short description of what it would do?
>  
>   
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for responding. The basic system would work as follows. An employee
> would call in and would transfer to a menu (either via an operator or via the
> phone system if no operator is available). Something like press 1 for sales
> and service press 2 for accounting and press 3 if you are an employee. Upon
> pressing three the user would be asked to enter their employee ID and
> password. The system would capture the employee ID , time of day and if
> available the caller ID from the location they are calling from. When they are
> finished they would repeat the process thus capturing the finish data for
> filling out a time card. The usage is a group of field nurses that need an
> easy way to enter data into there time cards since the Internet is not always
> available from the locations they call from. Although the caller ID can easily
> be spoofed this is not as important as capture of the time and employee data
> for filling out a time card. A second application uses the same theory but for
> janitors. The caller ID helps confirm they are where they are supposed to be.
> There are several PHP time cards out there but I am trying to find the best
> for interfacing with Asterisk. Phase one would be to capture the data to a
> flat file phase 2 would be to get it into a database, phase three would
> interface it to an existing LAMP based time card apt and phase 4 would allow
> for phone access to information stored in the time card such as how many hours
> worked, hours by day etc. A final phase would interface these to both
> Peachtree and Quickbooks.
> 
> I am working on a more definitive outline right now but I wanted some feedback
> from the development community before doing so, so that I did not reinvent the
> wheel.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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