[asterisk-users] Asterisk/Polycom Dialed Party Name

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Karl Fife wrote:

> Question about how Called Party ID feature is implemented in trunk/1.8:
> Will an instance be able to populate the Called Party ID with any dialplan 
> variable, (think CNAM dip to an external DB) or will the Called Party ID be 
> drawn from an asterisk-resident data structure such as from users.conf?
> I would assume the former, but I don't want to get my hopes up.  I 
> understand the implementation to be less-than-straightforward.

The CONNECTEDLINE() dialplan function and various macros that run at
defined times will allow you to specify anything you like; we've had
tests where app_voicemail spit out prompt file names as the 'connected
party ID', for example.

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