API, CRM, IT Guide

Asterisk Queue-names Integration

Dynamics Telephony can get and use the name of the Asterisk Queue that an inbound call came in on. Example use cases are:

  • You want to pop a particular form based on the Queue-name
  • You want to auto-populate the Queue-name into a custom field – e.g. in a phonecall, lead or case (incident)
  • You want per-queue statistics in CRM
  • You want to filter the customer search using Queue-name (e.g., if you have a queue per “brand”)
  • You want to search one of multiple CRM instances based on queue name.

Setting up Asterisk to pass queue-name

You have to set up Asterisk so that the queue-name is passed to Dynamics Telephony. You do this by pre-pending the queue-name to the callers name. You do this with a pattern so that Dynamics Telephony can parse out the queue-name. The standard pattern Dynamics Telephony accepts from Asterisk is D:queuename:number, for example

D:Support:070989887889

However, you can use another pattern if you wish by changing the RegEx in Dynamics Telephony Settings > Provider Configuration: DNIS RegEx. For the above pattern, use DNIS RegEX   D:(.+?):

For example, in freePbx, you set the prefix in Applications > Queues > [pick a queue] >General > CID Name Prefix = D:My Test Queue:
asterisk_queue_CID_prefix

Setting up Dynamics Telephony to accept Queue-name

Dynamics Telephony will parse the queue-name, set up in above section, to a DNIS in Dynamics Telephony. DNIS stands for Dialed Number Identification Service. So it identifies the destination the caller reached. The queue in this case.

Set up a DNIS in Dynamics Telephony with the same DNIS and Label as the queue-name (case sensitive), as shown below.

NOTE: If the incoming queue-name does not have a matching DNIS definition, the incoming queue-name will still be saved in the DNIS field of the phonecall.
dnis_setup

Now what can you do?

Some of these require use of the Dynamics Telephony API – See here for more

– The inbound call dialog will show the DNIS name when a call arrives via that queue. You can also have a per-DNIS color and logo.

– To pop a particular form, your JavaScript running in the originally popped form can query Dynamics Telephony via the API to get the DNIS and change the form.

– You can show a different script in the Dynamics Telephony Scripting Pane depending on the DNIS.

– To auto-populate a custom field, your JavaScript running in the originally popped form can query Dynamics Telephony via the API to get the DNIS and populate the field

– The Dynamics Telephony Entity for statistics (dialerCall) will now have the DNIS as a field

– You can auto-populate the phonecall Description field, or the auto-added Note, by using the placeholder <<dnis>> in Dynamics Telephony Settings > General : Phonecall Description or Other Party Note

– You can direct the CRM search on inbound call to a particular CRM by picking from the list in the DNIS configuration.

– You can filter inbound call search results to only those where queue-name matches any field in the entity. You set this in Dynamics Telephony Settings > Inbound > DNIS Filter, with a value something like {“entity”:”contact”, “attribute”:”new_brand_name”, “type”:”string”}