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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Invoking a URL through the campaign


Whenever we make contact with a number in the outgoing campaign and we would like to use a third-party software or application, we can invoke a URL providing the information of the call to this software as parameters.

How to do it…

  1. To add a URL, go to the Call Center | Outgoing Calls | External URLs menu. In this menu, we can see the status of all the created URLs.

  2. Clicking on Show Filter | New URL will redirect us to the URL creation web page.

  3. Enter the following information:

    • URL Template: This is the complete URL we are creating. For example, we will create the following URL: http://ipadress/program.php?agent={__AGENT_NUMBER__}&phone={__PHONE__}&campaign={_CAMPAIGN_ID_}

      Where: http://ipaddress/ is the protocol and IP address where the external application resides.

      program.php is the application itself.

      We pass the values {__AGENT_NUMBER __}, {__PHONE__}, and {_CAMPAIGN_ID_} to the parameters agent, phone, and campaign, respectively.

    • URL Description: The...