Whitelist from phonebook

General Help
1

I don’t know if this is possible. I’d like to establish a call flow for incoming calls.

incoming call
|
In Blacklist? (Yes) -> hangup
|
In Asterisk Phonebook? (Yes) -> send to ring group
|
Go to IVR
|
Correct option taken -> send to ring group
|
Hangup

Is that do-able?

2

I don’t know about is asterisk phonebook part but the rest is definitely doable.

3

if it is possible, it maybe call flow control option?

4

I know the rest is doable. It’s the phonebook whitelist that’s a bit iffy.

5

With a custom context, it is certainly doable. It seems to me that the Asterisk phonebook is maintained in the Asterisk real-time database, so it should be a simple enough matter to grab the record from dbget() and see what happens.

I don’t think there’s a simple way to do it from the GUI, though. I think you’re going to be delving into the deep magic that is custom context writing.

6

It is possible with custom dial plan, and the type of thing we do in paid support if you have the budget. You would need a block of code that checks for the existence of the database entry

cidname/${CALLERID(number)}

and fork the call based on the result.

7

Thanks.

It’s for my home PBX, not worth the money.

8

… and he gave you the tough part for free.

Lorne’s (@lgaetz) is a cool guy.

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9

A free (as in beer) book on how to make magic happen…

Chapters 5 and 6

10

Lorne is a cool guy.

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11

Cool, thanks.

Now for some light reading…:grin:

12

I saw a blog post in my Twitter feed a few days ago that included something a bit similar to this. It was at http://tech.iprock.com/?p=17563

Look for the line that says “;Special CallerID name lookup; uses Asterisk Phonebook which also acts as whitelist”, I think that might be somewhat close to what you are trying to do.

13

Thanks all. Great stuff for me to ponder.