<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Message: 5<br>Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:11:09 +0100<br>From: "Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR)" <
<a href="mailto:S.Guenther@in-put.de">S.Guenther@in-put.de</a>><br>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Softphone with Lotus Notes support?<br>To: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>
<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200511110811.10285.S.Guenther@in-put.de">200511110811.10285.S.Guenther@in-put.de</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Hi,<br><br>has anyone of you heard of a softphone or client that support Lotus Notes?
<br>I just want to click on the telephone number of an account and my hard- or<br>softphone should get the call.<br><br>Something similar to the outlook clients from Thirdlane<br>(<a href="http://www.thirdlane.com/opensource.htm#dialer">
http://www.thirdlane.com/opensource.htm#dialer</a>)<br>or EyePMedia (<a href="http://www.eyepmedia.com/">http://www.eyepmedia.com/</a>)<br><br>Thanks for any suggestions,<br><br>Stefan<br>--<br><br>********************************************
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As someone who uses and develops Notes and Asterisk on an almost daily basis, I can tell you two things:<br>
1. Technically, all softphones 'support' Lotus Notes- if Notes knew how
to pass them a number, they'd dial it. Notes, however, especially
in it's address book, doesn't support anyone.<br>
2. Since Notes is one heck of a lot more programmer-friendly than
Outlook/Exchange will ever be (I'm not biased, really..), adding such
functionality to your address books would be a snap. Simply pick
a softphone you like that supports any sort of API to accept dialing,
preferably one that supports URI dialing (DIAX comes to mind, but it's
really up to you), and modify the design of your address book (personal
or system) to turn the Phone Number field into a link hotspot.
Click, done.<br>
<br>
What I have done goes another step farther into the dark side- since
Domino natively supports LDAP, I wrote a script to pull all names and
numbers (10,000 of them) out of Domino using LDAP, drop them into a
MySQL database, then re-present it on my Cisco phones as a directory,
and via Apache as a web service, which supports click to dial via call
files in Asterisk. I'm now working on an agent for individual user
Personal Address Books to 'synchronize' with this directory structure,
so I can combine a user's personal contacts with the main 'corporate'
directory when they are searching for contacts. I'd offer it here, and
someday I might, however, since each corporate Domino enviromnet is so
very different, I have to basically restructure the code for each
implementation- and I havent made the code mature enough to have anyone
other than me do it. So for now, it's a single-client application. But,
I'd be happy to share implementation details with anyone who wants to
email me offline.<br>
<br>
-pbd<br>