Hi, We are in the process of moving from an Avaya Definity to Asterisk for our institution's phone system. I got one feature that the Avaya had, which I have not been able to reproduce with Polycom phones and Asterisk; since this feature seemed so small and useless to me when testing, I kind of ignored it. Now I am getting more "I miss that" requests than I expected. =)
On the Avaya's, when you dialed another user's internal extension, on the phone you are dialing from, it would display the user's name that you're dialing. Basically it was matching the contact/extension you dialed on your phone to an entry in the directory, and displaying that contact/extension's full name (eg, when I type in 20467 on my phone and hit dial, my phone would then display Marc Smith while it was ringing Marc Smith's phone). I've Google'd quite a bit and haven't really found any solutions; I found one other guy asking for the same thing, but no answer for him: http://forum.voxilla.com/polycom-voip-support-forum/see-you-call-polycom-ip330-37297.html Has anyone been able to replicate this with Asterisk and Polycom phones? If not with Polycoms, maybe another brand of phone? I see an option in the Polycom SIP administrator manual that comes close, but it clearly states this will not work for outgoing calls: --snip-- up.useDirectoryNames 0 or 1 Default: 0 If set to 1, the name fields of the local contact directory entries which match incoming calls will be used for caller identification display and in the call lists instead of the name provided through network signaling. Note: There is no matching of outgoing calls. There is no matching to corporate directory entries. --snip-- Currently on Asterisk 1.6.1.1 and Polycom SIP version 3.2.2.0477 (Polycom 330s and 560s). --Marc -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
