[Freeswitch-users] effective_caller_id_name in user directory not being passed to SIP endpoint

[Brian West]

Sounds like you may have turned off auth calls and its never actually
setting anything and just letting the calls thru.



On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Gavin Hamill <gavin at bashton.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm starting out with FS 1.4.7 on CentOS 6 (installed via the FS repo at
> http://files.freeswitch.org) and have a simple working config with two
> sofia profiles, internal and external. I can register SIP clients, call
> between internal extensions and call external numbers through a SIP gateway.
>
> Each user in directory/default/*.xml looks like this:
>
> <include>
>   <user id="106">
>     <params>
>       <param name="password" value="xxx"/>
>     </params>
>     <variables>
>       <variable name="accountcode" value="106"/>
>       <variable name="user_context" value="default"/>
>       <variable name="effective_caller_id_name" value="Gavin Hamill"/>
>       <variable name="outbound_caller_id_name" value="Gavin Hamill"/>
>     </variables>
>   </user>
> </include>
>
> However, when I call from 106 -> 105, I only see '105' appear in the
> destination client when I would expect to see 'Gavin Hamill' If I force the
> effective_caller_id_name to be a fixed string:
>
>   <context name="default">
>     <extension name="bashton_office_staff">
>       <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(10[0-9])quot;>
>         <action application="set"
> data="effective_caller_id_name=QWERTYUIOP" />
>         <action application="bridge" data="user/$1"/>
>       </condition>
>   ...
>   </context>
>
> Then sure enough calls always appear as coming from 'QWERTYUIOP'  At
> https://confluence.freeswitch.org/display/FREESWITCH/XML+User+Directory
> there is a section 'Variables' which states:
>
>   Any variables defined in the domain or user will be defined as channel
>   variables when there is a call to user or when there is an inbound calls
> from that user.
>
> That's exactly the behaviour I was expecting - any pointers where I'm
> going wrong would be warmly received.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
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