[asterisk-users] Dialing from phonebook, and hiding the dialed number from the user.

[Antonio Gómez Soto]

Hi AJ,

Yes, interesting idea, thanks!

Antonio

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:09 AM, A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Monday 26 Jan 2015, Antonio Gómez Soto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does anyone have a recommendation for a SIP phone, which
> > allows dialing from a phonebook, and hiding the dialed number
> > from the end users? Also from the call history of course.
> >
> > It seems Mitel can do this, and I have a use case where this is
> > a requirement.
>
> If I have this right, you want to make sure the number can *only* be called
> through your Asterisk system  (so the call gets recorded)  and *not*
> directly
> from an agent's mobile phone or similar  (so they cannot make
> off-the-record
> calls).
>
> Why not just use Asterisk itself to give the number an alias?  So the end
> user
> dials some number that connects them to the destination, but of course it
> won't work from anywhere else besides your configured Asterisk system.
>
>
> My home Asterisk installation  (yes, some people are crazy enough to play
> with
> phones for entertainment :) )  includes aliases to call people in the
> village
> where I grew up, using their old 4-digit phone numbers  (even though those
> numbers have now grown to 6 digits, and I have moved across an STD code
> boundary).  Also I have a friend whose mobile number ended with 911, so it
> was
> too delicious to avoid using that as an alias;
>
>
> exten => 911,1,Dial(${GSM}/07xxxxxx911)
> exten => 911,n,Hangup()
>
> exten => _[23]XXX,1,Dial(${GSM}/0128373${EXTEN})
> exten => _[23]XXX,n,Hangup()
>
>
> If you need many aliases and this is going to look messy in your dialplan,
> you
> could always use an AGI script to look up the number in a database.
>
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