Can called party's name be displayed?

Many people have asked for that feature. If you want we can ask Ethan if he wants to write it and post a bounty. I would certainly participate.

I thought you where working with Ethan on another Aastra issue you had.

Anyway, Ethan is the uber XML programmer over at Schmooze Communications. If a feature has a broad appeal he will code it and contribute it back to the community. We just need to collect up a reasonable bounty. I don't want to put words in his mouth but I thing $400 would be sufficient for this feature.

We just need to run the idea past Ethan (I can take care of that) and then post a message in the bounty forum.

The Aastra phones allow you to execute a script on action dial, you can't do that on a Cisco, sorry.

As somebody said in the thread, there is an action uri when the phone sends a SIP invite (action uri outgoing) where we can pass the dialed number, it would be very easy to create a script which lookups the number in the PBX directory, get the caller ID and displays 'Calling XYZ...' when the number is identified or do nothing when the number is not recognized.
This feature could be extended to perform a lookup in Exchange GAL or even your contacts but it could take some time.
Also the message should be displayed for a limited time because before 2.4.0 (next firmware) you cannot display the 'Drop', 'Xfer' and 'Conf' keys.
I believe that the script should be short enough to be published in the forum.

Let me know if this is what you are looking for.

aastra1

Or the really simple solution, create a phone directory entry for each local extension with the person's name. The phone will then display the name when dialing out.

Do you have to do anything special to get the Xfer, Conf and Drop keys to work?
I added the following lines to the code directly above $object->addSoftkey('6','','SoftKey:Exit');
but it does not display the keys. I am using the 2.4 firmware.

$object->addSoftKey('1','Drop','SoftKey:Drop');
$object->addSoftKey('2','Xfer','SoftKey:Xfer');
$object->addSoftKey('3','Conf','SoftKey:Conf');

I also copied the 2.4 php classes into the includes directory and made sure the permissions were correct.

This works really well! A few of us are going to test it here for a couple of days before rolling it out to the whole company.

I did change the timeout value to 3 seconds, as the original 6 seconds seemed way too long to me.

Eventually (with the new firmware?) it would be nice to have the called party's name displayed during the entire duration of the call. That would be especially helpful when switching between several active lines. But this script is a good compromise for now.

Thanks!

I've added to this script to support displaying Away status (see: http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/bounty-a...) and DND status.

<?php
#############################################################################
# Asterisk Outgoing
#
# Displays Away status, DND status of dialed number, if availble, otherwise
# extension's name, if available, otherwise nothing.
#
# Aastra SIP Phones 1.4.2 or better
#
# Copyright 2008 Ethan Schroeder (<a href="mailto:ethan.schroeder@gmail.com">ethan.schroeder@gmail.com</a>)
#
# Some code originally Copyright by Aastra Telecom Ltd
#
# script.php?number=XXX
# XXX is the remote phone number
#
#############################################################################

#############################################################################
# PHP customization for includes and warnings
#############################################################################
$os = strtolower(PHP_OS);
if(strpos($os, "win") === false) ini_set('include_path',ini_get('include_path').':include:../include');
else ini_set('include_path',ini_get('include_path').';include;..\include');
error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);

#############################################################################
# Includes
#############################################################################
require_once('AastraAsterisk.php');
require_once('AastraCommon.php');
require_once('AastraIPPhoneTextScreen.class.php');
require_once('AastraIPPhoneFormattedTextScreen.class.php');
require_once('AastraIPPhoneExecute.class.php');
@include_once('Away.class.php');
#############################################################################
# Retrieve parameters
$number=$_GET["number"];

# Not identified yet
$found=0;

# Trace
Aastra_trace_call('outgoing_asterisk','number='.$number);


# Lookup caller ID
$callerid=Aastra_get_callerid_Asterisk($number);

# Get Away status
$status = "";
if(class_exists("Away"))  {
        $away = new Away;
        $user = Aastra_get_userdevice_Asterisk($number);
        $status = $away->get_status($user);

}

$dnd = Aastra_manage_dnd_Asterisk($number,"get");

if($callerid == "entry not")  { // the database get performed in Aastra_get_callerid_Asterisk returned no results from the AstDB
        $callerid = "Unknown";
}
# Caller ID identified
if($callerid!='Unknown')
        {
        if($status)  {
                $extension = "is $status";
        }
        else if($dnd)  {
                $extension = "is in DND mode.";
        }
        else  {
                $extension = "Ext. $number";
        }

        if(Aastra_is_formattedtextscreen_supported())
                {
                $object = new AastraIPPhoneFormattedTextScreen();
                if(Aastra_size_formattedtextscreen()>3)
                        {
                        $object->addLine('');
                        $object->addLine('');
                        }
                $object->addLine($callerid);
                $object->addLine($extension);
                }
        else
                {
                $object = new AastraIPPhoneTextScreen();
                $object->setTitle($callerid);
                $object->setText($extension);
                }
        $object->addSoftkey('6','','SoftKey:Exit');
        $object->setDestroyOnExit();
        $object->setTimeout('6');
        $found=1;
        }

# No match whatsoever
if($found==0)
        {
        $object = new AastraIPPhoneExecute();
        $object->addEntry('');
        }

##########################################
# Display output
$object->output();
?>

Don't mind me; I'm an idiot. I followed the link and got the information on the Away status.

Great work on the above script!

Yes, but this is where it gets complicated. First, you would check all the open channels through AMI for anything matching the person you are calling. It's tricky but possible. Here's the kicker, though: as it stands right now you can't interrupt the actual dialing. So while the message could be displayed, the phone is going to continue dialing the number. It might be possible to do some voodoo with channel manipulation in the AMI to drop the channel if the other end is on a call, but then what if the user wants to continue to connect to that caller's voicemail regardless of whether or not they are on the phone? I suppose you could add a softkey to the notification screen that let's the user connect to the person's voicemail. In that case, you would have to use the AMI once again to originate an auto-answer call to the device and drop them into the other user's voicemail. Tricky, but possible, I suppose.

Hints send SIP messages directly to the phones, and as far as I know, the BLF status of a phone can't be queried through XML.

@necits:

Did you figure out using the addsoftkey for Drop, Xfer, and Conf? I'm playing with it right now too, and can't get it to work.

It would be great to display Name (Extension) is busy if the person is on is phone with another person. You could check that via core show hints.
If State:InUse then the person is on the phone.
If State:Idle then the person is available .

It would be great too to set a callback if the person is on the phone. When the person you've called finish is call Then it could beep on your phone and ask you if you want to call the person with a yes and no button.

There is a bounty going to camp on:
http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/camp-fre...