<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Avi Marcus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avi@avimarcus.net" target="_blank">avi@avimarcus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Indeed, <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px">outbound_caller_id_name is just a variable.</span><div>
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</span></font><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px">To use it you have to tell the dialplan to set </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px">effective_caller_id_name=${</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px">outbound_caller_id_name}.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px">effective_caller_id_name IS a variable that actually gets used.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px"><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_extra">(The default dialplan does this.)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I'm sorry, I should have explained it better.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I do use the method in the default dialplan that sets:</div>
<div style> effective_caller_id_name=${outbound_caller_id_name}</div><div style>and</div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"> effective_caller_id_number=${outbound_caller_id_number}</font><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">for outgoing calls through the gateway (Flowroute).</font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">The annoying issue is that while the outbound_caller_id_number gets sent correctly, the outbound_caller_id_name gets lost somewhere between the gateway and my POTS line, which seems to use a CNAM lookup instead. I have been told that this is because many parts of the PSTN do not pass the "NAME" part of the Caller-ID.</font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">-- </font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Steve</font></div></div></div></div>