[asterisk-users] Integration with outlook

[A J Stiles]

On Tuesday 28 January 2014, bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> Is there a method "way" to be able to dial the phone number through
> asterisk from the outlook email contact?

If Outlook works anything like the KDE mail / news / calendar app Kontact, 
then you can specify a command to be run whenever a phone number is clicked 
on, and insert the number into the command by means of a placeholder.  
Ordinarily, this would simply launch a softphone client.

What we did to get Asterisk-integrated fuctionality in Kontact was simply set 
the "call" command to invoke wget and fire a CGI script on the Asterisk box, 
which generated a callfile.  The script knows the IP address from which it was 
invoked, and therefrom can determine the extension number of the nearest 
phone.


-- 
AJS

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