[asterisk-users] Rewriting caller ID from database?

[Doug Lytle]

Vincent Delporte wrote:
> Hi
>
> Most of our customers have generic names like "Hospital", so I need to 
> rewrite their caller ID name by looking up the number in a database on 
> the Asterisk server, and rewriting the name such as "Reading Hospital" 
> so that we know who's calling.
>
> Any idea if this can be done with Asterisk, and how to do it?
>

Entries are stored in the internal database.  Then at the incoming 
context I have:

exten => _XXXXXXXXXX,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=${DB(CIDNAME/${CALLERIDNUM})})
exten => _XXXXXXXXXX,n,Set(CALLERID(number)=91${CALLERIDNUM})

Doug

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