[Asterisk-Users] Outlook Integration

[Gareth Blades]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:57, Matt Riddell wrote:
> Dan Adams wrote:
> 
>  > Are you going to be making this one available to all. I am not sure if
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>  > or how it is possible, but maybe you would be able to have it so that 
> if you right click on the contact, it has an option to iniate a call from
> 
> 
> Well, you drag the contact from outlook onto one of the speed dial 
> buttons.  Then when you click on the contact it checks the length of the 
> phone number and prepends any digits necessary (i.e. a 4 digit number 
> will be dialed as it, whereas a 7 digit number will have 9 prepended if 
> it 9 is the predial code).
> 
>  > there. If I may ask, trying to think how the thing you are making 
> will interact with my asterisk server, would it use the telnet utility 
> or some sort of .call file thing?
> 
> 
> Telnet basically to the manager interface then uses originate to create 
> calls.


Personally what I would find very usefull would be to have the
application use Diax for making the voice calls. Diax's browser
integration could be used as an interface.