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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

Configuring a speed dial list


With the Elastix UCS, we can have a centralized list of numbers that can be accessed by the users. Each number of this list has a special code in order to dial it quicker than by dialing the number itself.

How to do it…

  1. To configure the speed dial list, click on the PBX | PBX Configuration | Unembedded FreePBX menu.

  2. In the FreePBX configuration WebGUI, go to the Tools | Asterisk Phonebook menu.

  3. Add a speed dial number by using the following information in the Add or Replace Entry section:

    • Name: Name of the speed dial

    • Number: Destination external number

    • Speed dial code: A number to associate this code to the external number to dial

    • Set Speed Dial?: This option must be checked

The next screenshot shows this configuration:

How it works…

To dial this speed dial number, we dial *088, where *0 is to access the speed dial system's feature and 88 is the speed dial code we entered.

Some actions that we can perform on the speed dial administration web page are as follows:

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