Follow Me CID

Hi,

 I am wondering how to get fix a CID issue that I have.  I have a DID that is answered by and IVR.  Option 4 of the IVR sends a call to a particular extension.  This extension is a phone connected to an ATA, setup as an SIP extension in FreePBX/TrixBox.  When calls are sent to this extension, I want the call to also ring a cell phone.  I have effected this two ways, one being to use Follow Me and send the call to the cell phone using ringall.  The other is to define a ring group that includes the extension and the cell phone number.  When calls come to the cell phone, they show the CID of the caller.  I would like the CID to be that of the DID so that I know the call cam in on that DID, rather than a caller calling the cell phone directly.

 What is the easiest method to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Lou

The easiest way to do this, off the top of my head, is to make the cell phone a custom extension with it’s own simple dialplan. Use that custom extension in the ringgroup/followme and have the custom dialplan use the original DID as the CID before making the call. That’s the basic concept, it does take a bit of understanding of how the CIDs are manipulated to make this work.

Philippe Lindheimer - FreePBX Project Lead
http//freepbx.org - IRC #freepbx

I think I understand, but do I need to make entries in any place other than extensions?

you would have the dialplan for the custom extension implemented in extensions_custom.conf.

Philippe Lindheimer - FreePBX Project Lead
http//freepbx.org - IRC #freepbx