On 11 Nov 2005, at 12:49, Paul Davidson wrote:
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As someone who uses and develops Notes and Asterisk on an almost
daily basis, I can tell you two things:
1. Technically, all softphones 'support' Lotus Notes- if Notes knew
how to pass them a number, they'd dial it. Notes, however,
especially in it's address book, doesn't support anyone.
2. Since Notes is one heck of a lot more programmer-friendly than
Outlook/Exchange will ever be (I'm not biased, really..), adding
such functionality to your address books would be a snap. Simply
pick a softphone you like that supports any sort of API to accept
dialing, preferably one that supports URI dialing (DIAX comes to
mind, but it's really up to you), and modify the design of your
address book (personal or system) to turn the Phone Number field
into a link hotspot. Click, done.
What I have done goes another step farther into the dark side-
since Domino natively supports LDAP, I wrote a script to pull all
names and numbers (10,000 of them) out of Domino using LDAP, drop
them into a MySQL database, then re-present it on my Cisco phones
as a directory, and via Apache as a web service, which supports
click to dial via call files in Asterisk. I'm now working on an
agent for individual user Personal Address Books to 'synchronize'
with this directory structure, so I can combine a user's personal
contacts with the main 'corporate' directory when they are
searching for contacts. I'd offer it here, and someday I might,
however, since each corporate Domino enviromnet is so very
different, I have to basically restructure the code for each
implementation- and I havent made the code mature enough to have
anyone other than me do it. So for now, it's a single-client
application. But, I'd be happy to share implementation details with
anyone who wants to email me offline.
-pbd
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Do you think there would be any interest in a softphone that supports
LDAP ?
T.
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