Hi All;
I'm a newbie so please be gentle.
I'm a new * user and am using it to control the 3 IP phones in my house. I'm using asterisk because I enjoy the flexibility and I'm sort of a tinkerer.
Here's my question: Everyone has used the "dial by directory" function where you dial the user's name to connect to that extension. Instead of an inward dial, I'm thinking how cool it'd be to have an outward "dial-by-name", where from any extension you can spell a name and dial it outbound via a trunk line.
Off the top of my head..
specify a context in voicemail.conf:
[outward-dial-by-name] 1000 => 1000,John Smith 1001 => 1000,George Lucas
then another context in extensions.conf
[outward-dial-by-name] 1000 => Zap/g1/5551234567 ; john smith's phone number 1001 => Zap/g1/5551238888 ; george's mobile phone
and finally in your dialplan (assuming you use a context called "internal" for all your internal phones..)
[internal] ; some other stuff exten => 123,1,Directory(outward-dial-by-name|outward-dial-by-name)
disclaimer: untested stuff. your mileage may vary. don't sue me if it don't work
Flynn
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