I'v just noticed that this exact problem was mentioned a few days ago. Sorry for starting another thread. Still, this doesn't look right to me either. I assumed caller_id_name is considered read only? What's best practice here? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 14:58, Mike <motosota@gmail.com> wrote:

In case it's of use to anyone else:

Thanks to the guys on the IRC - the solution to this is to set the caller_id_name variable in the dialplan before calling the callcenter application thuswise:

<action application="set" data="caller_id_name=Wookie"/> <action application="callcenter" data="support@default"/>

This works a treat.

The other methods we tried - using effective_caller_id_name or orignination_caller_id_name with either export, set or bridge_export didn't work.

Mike

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 13:37, Markus Lindenberg <markus.lindenberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

my dialplan goes like this:

<action application="export" data="effective_caller_id_name=HOTLINE ${caller_id_name}"/> <action application="callcenter" data="hotline@${domain_name}"/>

Setting/exporting effective_caller_id_name has no effect when the call is presented to a callback agent. the original callerid and calleridname will be used.

for now i worked around the problem like this:

<extension name="hotline">  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^42$">    <action application="export" data="effective_caller_id_name=HOTLINE ${caller_id_name}"/>    <action application="bridge" data="loopback/hotline_queue"/>  </condition> </extension>

<extension name="hotline_queue">  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^hotline_queue$">    <action application="callcenter" data="hotline@${domain_name}"/>  </condition> </extension>

while this works, it just doesn't look right to me and means i have to take additional actions if i want the dialplan to continue after bridging into the queue.

To me the obvious solution would be to have mod_callcenter.c (line 2479 "INSERT INTO members...") check for origination/effective caller id variables and use them, if available.

I'm already doing this kind of check over and over in some lua code i call before bridging (e.g. for sending xmpp notifications):

       cidnum = session:getVariable("effective_caller_id_number")        if not cidnum then                cidnum = session:getVariable ("origination_caller_id_number")        end        if not cidnum then                cidnum = session:getVariable ("caller_id_number")        end

This doesn't feel entirely right either. Shouldn't there be a command that always gives me the computed callerid after possible manipulations? or should i generally do this stuff in the b leg, where the effective_caller_id_name is available as caller_id_name?

Thanks,

Markus