[Asterisk-Users] Persistent variables disappear when dialingLocalextension

[Falck Kenneth]

Matt Florell wrote:
> We struggled with this a couple years back before CVS_head 
> had that function. What we ended up doing was using the 
> CallerIDName field for a 20 character unique identifier and 
> we used the callerIDnum as usual (telcos in the US only use 
> callerIDnum anyway).

Thanks! I applied this to our case, and I can now store the recipient's
CallerID in CALLERIDNAME, and then restore it in the Local context into
CALLERIDNUM.

The solution is still a little dirty, since CALLERIDNAME will show up in
the SIP From header. But I think I can work around that by dialling both
calls in the fork through a Local channel that clears CALLERIDNAME
before connecting to the real destination.

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