Re: OGo and Asterisk
Helge Hess <[email protected]>
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On Aug 10, 2004, at 12:55, Mark Harrison wrote: > to set up a call between an > extension and an outgoing line, you have to dump a file in a spool > directory which follows a fairly arcane and deployment-specific format. OK, anyone got a link with information on this? > The benefit of putting xAP in between comes from Yes, understood. Standards are always a good thing :-) Doing one thing doesn't prohibit to do the other. >> b) is there a low-level example on how such a transaction looks like? > To dial a number from outlook, you send a message which looks a bit > like the following on UDP broadcast port 3639 (an official IANA > allocation to xAP): Hm, looks rather complicated. Since UDP is not reliable it sounds like quite an effort (not a major one, but a different class than just writing a file in /spool ;-) > It would be very nice to rewrite the current outlook VBA code as a > proper outlook plugin, so that incoming calls can also do direct lookup > against the local outlook instance, and the install/setup pain that > goes > with using VBA can be circumvented. In my understanding this would be an xAP TAPI driver? > This is a bit irrelevant to OGo, maybe? Possibly not.... No, this isn't relevant. Its interesting for people who want to use Outlook with OGo. Maybe you can setup a page on docs.opengroupware.org which explains how to integrate Asterisk with OGo by using Outlook/ZideLook? Greets, Helge -- http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/ OpenGroupware.org -- OpenGroupware.org Discussion [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss