[Asterisk-Users] RE: Q: Can I over-ride the value of ${CALLERIDNAME} ?

[Brian Christie]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:44:16 -0600, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
<eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> asterisk at draughon.org wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> >       Many thanks to Howard Lowndes who helped solve this problem; I ended
> > up using SetCallerID() instead of SetCIDName() as Howard suggested. Although
> > SetCIDName() changed the value correctly, desk set CID displays displayed
> > either "unavailable" or "out of area" on incoming calls from my cell phone.
> > Here's what I ended up with:
> >
> > ...
> > exten => s/3125882300,1,SetCallerID("ROB CELL" <${CALLERIDNUM}>)
> > exten => s/3125882300,2,Goto(100,1)
> >
> > exten => 100,1,Macro(exten_vm,Zap/1)
> 
> Some phones don't accept Caller*ID with quotes.  Try removing the quotes.

FWIW I believe the quotes are part of the syntax of SetCallerID...

Anyway, sounds like he's got it working.

-Brian