asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Outlook contacts -> Asterisk database (LookupCIDName)

Is it possible in any way to use an Outlook contacts database as the 
source for the internal Asterisk database that is used for callerid 
lookups?

Thanks!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Remco Barende" <asterisk@barendse.to>
To: "Asterisk Users List" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outlook contacts -> Asterisk 
database(LookupCIDName)

> Is it possible in any way to use an Outlook contacts database as the 
> source for the internal Asterisk database that is used for callerid 
> lookups?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Hi, 
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outlook contacts -> Asterisk 
> database(LookupCIDName)
> 
> Is it possible in any way to use an Outlook contacts database as the 
> source for the internal Asterisk database that is used for callerid 
> lookups?
Not directly. Outlook contacts are either stored on a workstation or on an
exchange server and are in a proprietary format. There are options to export
and/or synchronise them, which might help you. Then you could easily replace
LookupCIDName with an AGI script that does the same thing but looks in a
different database type...

The suggestion someone else made was to use ASTTAPI. This would include a
TAPI interface on your Windows PC which then can get the callerID on the
windows machine when the call comes in. A user application can then look up
the name in the Outlook DB directly. However, I don't think it can then feed
those results back into Asterisk, which is what LookupCIDname does, so the
functionality is a little different.

Florian

Export Outlook to CSV, import name and numbers to mysql, and use
cid_rewrite located at http://muware.com/asterisk

That's what I did.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remco Barende [mailto:asterisk@barendse.to] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:28 PM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outlook contacts -> Asterisk 
> database(LookupCIDName)
> 
> 
> Is it possible in any way to use an Outlook contacts database as the 
> source for the internal Asterisk database that is used for callerid 
> lookups?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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