Pros and Cons of using OBiTALK Provisioning and OBiTALK portal for configuration
MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: MurrayB on May 23, 2012, 10:39:19 am
How can individual Obi 110 be set up with different speed dial lists with ObiTalk provisioning enabled? I am under the impression that the speed dial lists would be under the control of the portal.
The only way I know of to do that (short of not using the OBiTALK portal for configuration) is to create a separate OBiTALK account for each device. That approach may have drawbacks of its own, particularly if you use the "Circle of Trust" feature, which only works if all devices are on the same account. If you don't use the CoT, then just create a new account for each device. Note you'll have to unregister the device from the existing account, which will wipe all the existing settings, and then register it to the new account, and recreate your settings. But because it's on a separate account, you can configure the speed dials separately.
infin8loop:
Quote from: MurrayB on May 23, 2012, 10:39:19 am
How can individual Obi 110 be set up with different speed dial lists with ObiTalk provisioning enabled? I am under the impression that the speed dial lists would be under the control of the portal.
I don't know how many Obi's and speed dials you are dealing with but another option may be to use a range of speed dial numbers for each Obi device. Speed dial #1 is forced to a soft phone when managed by ObiTalk, so skipping it you could have something like:
Obi#1: speed dial range 2-29
Obi#2: speed dial range 30-59
etc.
All the speed dials would be on all the Obi's but the user(s) of a particular Obi would know that a range applied to them.
Obviously this too has limitations if you have many Obi's and a large number of speed dials. It would keep it all in one ObiTalk portal account if the limitations work for you.
I have mentally reserved speed dial range 91-99 to use with "Single-Stage Dialing Through Any Trunk" documented in another thread. I use speed dial 91 for Obi#1 and 92 for Obi#2. I only have two devices at the moment. Mentally the first "9" equates to the 9 in **9 used to dial Obi numbers and the second digit (1-9) is a particular Obi. This is incidental to your question but is something else to think about when setting up a speed dial plan.
MurrayB:
Good Data - food for thought!
Thanks!
piperspace:
I am regretfully turning Obi provisioning OFF on my two units only because I need separate speed dials.
This discussion was very helpful in clarifying the issues. Thanks!
Felix:
Quote from: piperspace on May 27, 2012, 05:00:26 pm
I am regretfully turning Obi provisioning OFF on my two units only because I need separate speed dials.
This discussion was very helpful in clarifying the issues. Thanks!
Another solution would be to keep several ObiTalk accounts; so separate speed dials are getting pushed to different devices.
I have the same dilemma, and haven't decided yet which way to go ???
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