Hi Henry,

I appreciate your faith in me but code snippets for Trixbox are beyond my
skill.  I rarely rise above dialplan hacks.  It's what I know and as the old
saying goes: "To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

You're right, the trick is coming up with something that doesn't get erased
every time you do an update of Trixbox.  Wait a minute, (he says, hammer
firmly in hand) if you take their dialing macro and copy it to the custom
file using the same macro name, you can make changes to it and yours will
override theirs.  The only problem with that is if they release an update
that changes their macro, you won't get the changes.  If it's causing you
and your client pain, you might consider this as a pretty good stop gap
measure.  Once you identified the macro and lines in question, it should be
a relatively straight forward matter to modify the callerID settings from
there.

Unfortunately it's been several months since I've rolled up my sleeves on a
Trixbox machine so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the macro names etc.  If you
had a box that we could look at and make some test calls on, maybe it would
be worth taking a look at.

Dave

On 3/8/07, Henry L.Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Dave, we can get under the hood of Trixbox by including modification
that don't get erased every time a refresh/update is done. If you have a
code snippet that can substitute the CID for the Trunk name that may be
enough to  do the job. We could get Trixbox to Incorporate this in a
future release.
All it would require is a field called Trunk name in the "Trunk" web page
or a check box to use the trunk name as is.. ie IAX/XYZ_INC.
Let me know if you want to take this on as a little project.


Henry L. Coleman.
Web: www.voip-pbx.ca
Tel: 1 866 415 5355


< Dave Donovan>
> On 3/8/07, Henry L.Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> So the receptionist needs to be able to answer "Hello this is the ABC
>> company" or this is the XYZ company depending on the incoming trunk/DID
>> or
>> extension DID extension username (it just displays to CID now)
>
>
> Henry,
>
> It would take some work to integrate this into trixbox, but Asterisk
would
> certainly allow you to prepend the called party info in a form like
> "416-NXX-XXXX for 234 Dave Donovan".  If you didn't care about the
Caller
> ID, you could just put in the callee info like "from abc co, x234, David
> Donovan".  That would make it super easy for the receptionist to just
say
> "Thank you for calling ABC Company, I'm sorry Mr Donovan isn't available
> right now....."
>
> I hope this helps.
> Dave
>


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