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New speed dial feature

Posted by cbbs70a on Sun, 03/01/2009

Has anyone taken a look at the new speed dial feature in the newest release? There are references to it, but no documentation anyplace on what it does or how to use it.


Submitted by beedsley on Tue, 03/24/2009 Permalink

I have looked at this also. But it appears to be just for the "Click to Dial" web interface in the User Portal.

And would like a simple way to create speed dial lists for each tenant.

Should we do it with this speed dial, or some other way?

Suggestions appreciated.

Submitted by cbbs70a on Wed, 03/25/2009 Permalink

To me, the best feature that Thirdlane has is its flexibility. I wrote a speeddial page for the user portal that stores 99 name/number pairs in MySQL (slots 01-99 although of course there is no upper bound). Speed dialing is accomplished by prefacing a numbered slot by a # sign such as #01, #02, etc. The

dialplan for this is feature is only about a dozen lines. If there is any interest in this I may release it publicly. The only thing to remember is that anytime you add a feature or modification, the possibility always exists that an upgrade may overwrite your customizations so upgrading needs to be done cautiously.

Submitted by beedsley on Wed, 03/25/2009 Permalink

Would love to see it, and it may cause others to write additional customizations. We may even get TL to include it.

Submitted by eeman on Wed, 03/25/2009 Permalink

to clarify, the speeddial you saw in the patch notes pertains to phone provisioning. Some phones support setting up a line key as a speed dial or BLF to monitor the status of another extension. The framework is now in place to write speed dial and BLF provisioning into the phone provisioning tool.