Dial Plan Replacement Value
 

Why can't the replacement field value in a Dial Plan be a literal string?

I would like to be able to dial 411 and have it go off to FWD as *18007270986. I tried to be clever with ${EXTEN:3}*18007270986, which is accepted, but dialing 411 always get a fast busy.

I think the problem may be with the 411 part and not the replacement. I tried *${EXTEN:2}8007270986 as the replacement and it came out as valid under number to test. However, when dialing from the phone I get a fast busy.

Here is an option I verified as working. Set 411 as the Speed Dial number and in the SIP URI enter sip:*18007270986@fwd.pulver.com. Then just dial **411. Not as elegant as simply dialing 411, but it works.

Speed dial would be an option, but I don't see any reason NOT to allow literal strings as the replacement value, expecially since you're allowed to apply prefixes and suffixes to ${EXTEN}. It appears the problem is simply a validation check issue on the web page form.

Here's another option that works. Using the Dial Plan on my SPA2000 I added <411:*18007270986><:@fwd.pulver.com> as the first entry. Of course this skips Voxalot, but using this method allows you to just dial 411.

Yes, I'm aware of all these work-arounds, but they don't get the bugs worked out of VoXaLot :) .

Yep it is a validation bug that we will fix. Thanks for letting us know.

Guys this should now be fixed. Please advise.

Martin,

The validation problem is gone, but it doesn't produce the correct results.

My dial plan is:

_4111 *18003733411 Free World Dialup

and the test is:

A call to:4111 will get forwarded to sip:4111@fwd.pulver.com.

It appears it's totally ignoring the subsitution operation.

Ron

Hmm it appears the corresponding SIP proxy change was not deployed. Can you please retry?

Both the web page test and actual dialing appear to be working properly now.

Thank you.

Ron