[Asterisk-Users] CallerID

[Miles Scruggs]

Could you give me an example code of how this would work, and how to 
setup the database, I'm pretty new and while what you have written makes 
sense, and sounds like a good plan I'm not sure I can implement it.

Thanks

Miles

Waldo Rubinstein wrote:
> AFAIK, you can use database lookups to fetch the "internal" caller id 
> and "external" caller id depending on the channel that is placing the 
> call. Then, simply set the corresponding caller id before placing the 
> call. Alternatively, which is what I currently do, since I don't use 
> account codes, I set the accountcode parameter in my sip peer 
> definitions to the external caller id I want to show, and then I force 
> the caller id to the ${CDR(accountcode)} variable before placing 
> external calls.
>
> I don't know if there are any other more efficient methods.
>
> - Waldo
>
> On Apr 6, 2006, at 3:02 AM, Miles Scruggs wrote:
>
>> how do you set two types of caller id one for internal calling and 
>> one for external?  Basically everyone calling out from asterisk from 
>> one context I want to assign a single callerid.  On all other 
>> contexts I want to assign a caller ID specific to each line for all 
>> calls going out to asterisk.
>>
>> Finally for all calls that remain behind the asterisk box (ext to 
>> ext) the Caller ID is set to the specific extension of the caller.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Miles
>>
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