[Asterisk-Users] CallerID Name in dialplan

[Colin Anderson]

I have had good luck with this:

exten => 1000,1,SetCallerID(YourMessageHere)

works fine on my phones (Snoms) but the problem there is that SetCallerID
only works from the perspective of the callee. A hack might be to make a
.call file that the user instantiates from a web page that calls the
extension and then bridges the contexta to voicemail, then SetCallerID would
work (or caller ID in the .call file itself)

Otherwise, something like that would have to be provided by the phone itself
or pushed out-of-band to the phone (Ciscos can do this, can't they?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Vega [mailto:openpbx at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:33 PM
To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] CallerID Name in dialplan


Is it possible to show CallerID names for dialplan applications? When I call
from phone-to-phone, it shows the CallerID from sip.conf or iax.conf, but I
don't know of any way to show CallerID Name when I call the extension for an
application (voicemail for example):

exten => 1000,1,Answer
exten => 1000,n,VoicemailMain

I'd like the display to read "VOICE MAIL" when I dial extension 1000.