[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Enhancements to connected line and redirecting work.

[Benny Amorsen]

"Mark Michelson" <mmichelson at digium.com> writes:

> Third, app_dial has two new options, s and u. The s option lets a dialplan writer force a specific
> caller ID tag to be placed on the outgoing channel.

I am probably just dense, but what does this offer which just setting
CALLERID() cannot do?

We are in the strange position of often having to set CALLERID(num)
differently for two dial targets when doing Dial(a&b), so anything
which is per-dial-statement does not really work for us.


/Benny