[Asterisk-Users] Anyone ever implement an *outbound* dial-by-name??

[Alfredo Manrique]

Also off the top of my head.. How about:

specify a context in voicemail.conf:

[outward-dial-by-name]
2125551212 => 1000,John Smith
3055551212 => 1000,George Lucas

or if you use 9 to dial out:

[outward-dial-by-name]
92125551212 => 1000,John Smith
93055551212 => 1000,George Lucas

Again, I have not tried this.


On 5/12/05, El Flynn <el_flynn at lanvik-icu.com> wrote:
> Michael Jones wrote:
> > Hi All;
> >
> > I'm a newbie so please be gentle.
> >
> > I'm a new * user and am using it to control the 3 IP phones in my
> > house.  I'm using asterisk because I enjoy the flexibility and I'm  sort
> > of a tinkerer.
> >
> > Here's my question:  Everyone has used the "dial by directory"  function
> > where you dial the user's name to connect to that  extension.  Instead
> > of an inward dial, I'm thinking how cool it'd be  to have an outward
> > "dial-by-name", where from any extension you can  spell a name and dial
> > it outbound via a trunk line.
> >
> 
> Off the top of my head..
> 
> specify a context in voicemail.conf:
> 
> [outward-dial-by-name]
> 1000 => 1000,John Smith
> 1001 => 1000,George Lucas
> 
> then another context in extensions.conf
> 
> [outward-dial-by-name]
> 1000 => Zap/g1/5551234567  ; john smith's phone number
> 1001 => Zap/g1/5551238888  ; george's mobile phone
> 
> and finally in your dialplan (assuming you use a context called "internal" for
> all your internal phones..)
> 
> [internal]
> ; some other stuff
> exten => 123,1,Directory(outward-dial-by-name|outward-dial-by-name)
> 
> disclaimer: untested stuff. your mileage may vary. don't sue me if it don't work
> 
> Flynn
> 
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