[asterisk-users] Called party identification - where to takecalledname?

[Yuan LIU]

>From: "Dan Austin" <Dan_Austin at Phoenix.com>
>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:01:25 -0700
>
>Yehavi wrote:
> >  I am trying to apply the "called party identification"
> > patch (patch 8824) and managed to make it work with a
> > static data. Where do I take the name of the called person
> > (the "equivalent" of CALLERID, but the other way...)?
>Short answer is that you cannot.
>
>Longer answer is that it is possible, but requires new
>functionality to be added to the core and a new API call
>be added that can check if the called party is a local
>endpoint and retrieve the caller-id values.

It will depend on actual application.  For some small sites, manually 
setting up an AstDB family should suffice.  This can even be semi automated.

Yuan Liu

>At least that was what I found when working on the patch.
>If anyone knows a way to lookup a peer/friend from the
>dialplan and collect such details, it would be possible to
>use the existing patch without any more changes in the core.
>
> > BTW, one note to the above patch: To make it work the device
> > should have the parameter sendrpid set to true.
>
>Dan