[Asterisk-Users] 2 companies - one asterisk

[Noah Silverman]

Thanks,

That is the direction that I'm leaning.

I just have to figure out the best way to abrevite the "prefix" that I 
add to the caller id.  In a perfect world, I would find a way to insert 
a carriage return so that I could have my "code" at the top line, and 
the actual ID underneath it.  Unfortunately, I don't think that this is 
possible.

-N

C F wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0800, Noah Silverman <noah at allresearch.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have working with a polycom IP500 phone.
>>
>>I like the idea of having each line button on the phone as a separate
>>sip device.  If I understand it right, each phone could have three
>>extensions (one for each line.)  This would be great since I could then
>>use the dialplan to forward calls to the desired extension.
>>
>>I envision something like this:
>>Extenson 101  - Company-A
>>Extension 102 - Company B
>>
>>I've adjusted my dialplan to prepend a "hint" to the callerid so that I
>>know which menu choice the caller picked:
>>exten => 1,2,SetCIDName(A-Sales:  ${CALLERIDNAME})
>>exten => 1,3,Macro(stdexten,101,SIP/ext101)
>>exten => 2,2,SetCIDName(A-Sup:  ${CALLERIDNAME})
>>exten => 3,3,Macro(stdexten,101,SIP/ext101)
>>
>>Now if I could get multiple extensions on one phone (one for each
>>button.) I would be all set.
>>
>>Thanks!!
>>
> 
> The way you describe what you want, there is no need for multiple
> buttons on your phones, just callerid is good enought since it gives
> the best visual for the users. In fact long before callerid was
> available to the comsumer markets, companies used this when ppl called
> different DIDs or groups from menus.
> All you would do would be to change the caller id and then have the
> call go thru the regular dialplan of ringing your extensions. You only
> need the new extensions if you want a different voicemail (which can
> also be accomplished in other ways, but some times this is the
> easiest).
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