[asterisk-users] Need application, CID number match list to call cell phone

[David Backeberg]

> They want an after hours application that checks inbound caller ID
> numbers and matches them to a list, say 5 to 10 numbers of special VIP
> customers, if there is a match on the list, then forward the call
> straight to a cell phone, instead of ringing local extension and then
> to voicemail.
>
> The customer also wants to be able to manage this VIP list and the
> call forward cell phone number themselves, so it needs to be
> configured, numbers added and deleted, through a web page on the PBX.

This functionality already exists in FreePBX, which is essentially a
web GUI with a database backend that makes some Asterisk programming
tasks quite easy for people who only know how to point and click. In
FreePBX speak,

* you would do the CID matching in "Internal Routes", and have the
various CID matches jump to
* the cell phones, which you configure as "Extensions"
* you also need a "Trunk" to do the outbound dialing for the cell
phones, but you configure which trunk to dial out on in the
"Extensions" dialogue.

This might be a pain to join to your existing Asterisk dialplan now,
but if you think they're going to keep adding similar features and
want web GUIs on them, you might want to go the "use something that
already does the job" route.