On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Savoy, Kevin - Williston, ND</b> <<a href="mailto:ksavoy@novo1.com">ksavoy@novo1.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Not sure
if this can be done or not, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on the
Wiki. When dialing interoffice with Asterisk 1.4.2, I would like to have the
caller id of the person I am dialing displayed and not the number I just
dialed. Is this possible? So, if extension 4023 is John Doe, and I dial 4023,
my display should read John Doe and not 4023. I am using a Polycom 501 by the
way in case that matters.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>On a Grandstream GXP-2000, this happens when the dialed number is in the XML phonebook that the phone sucks down from my provisioning server. It might work the same on the Polycom units. Of course, you need to have some process in place to keep the phonebook file up to date.
<br><br>To do it in a generic way where the name is looked up by * and sent back to your phone for display as part of the 100 Trying or 180 Ringing responses, is an entirely different matter. I suspect that the end-user experience would vary wildly based on the equipment each user was using. If this is possible, I'm sure people more knowledgeable than me will chirp in.
<br><br>The phonebook route might be the quickest bang for your buck though. If I recall from testing Polycom phones, you can have a central phonebook shared by all phones and a per-phone phonebook that is uploaded by the phone to your TFTP server so that even when re-provisioning from factory reset, nothing is lost. I didn't get far enough in the evaluation to set up a provisionin server of my own. The evaluation died in committee when an exec reported that she "didn't like the small buttons" on the IP430.
<br><br></div></div>-- <br>j.