On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Rui Mota <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. I am replacing a legacy Alcatel PBX for asterisk and now i'm facing a > request i can't answer yet: I need to replicate the "Call Pickup" function > from Alcatel, mostly when used by a secretary picking up a call from his > manager. The pickup function, as i'm already using her is not enough, i > need the pickedup number to be shown in the secretary phone. Is this > doable, using pickup or any other way? > > The situation is: The manager's phone is ringing. The secretary has a > module keys with his key blinking. She presses the key to pickup the call, > and needs to see the original caller id, to know how she should answer the > phone (internal/external call, other manager calling, a friend, etc) >
What you are asking about is connected line functionality. Asterisk has had this functionality since v1.8. See https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Manipulating+Party+ID+Information for more information. Richard
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