On 12/02/2010 03:56 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jonas Kellens wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> I have Snom, Cisco, Grandstream& YeaLink phones. >> >> Is there a way to push a centralized phone book to these phones ?? >> > Grandstreams support an XML format phone book download - it would susprice > me if the others didn't, but I've no 1st hand experience of them. > > So you'd need to get some central process to generate the phone books for > each type of phone then arrange the phones to download ther own phonebook. > > Alternatively, use a programmable PBX such as Asterisk to maintain the > phone book centrally for you - have it update the name field for incoming > calls and allow it to take a short-code for outbound speed-dialling - > which can be accessed via a web interface to the PBX in a click to dial > sort of thing. > > Well, that's what I do anyway. It's better than mucking about downloading > phone books to all the different types of phones. > > Gordon >
Gordon, your idea is not that bad... I will seriously take this into consideration... This is the input I needed :-)... Now to implement it ! Kind regards, Jonas. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
