Re: OGo and Asterisk

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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