Speed Dial

[dennist]

Is there a way to print or export the Speed Dial list?

When the speed dial is used, it seems the phone does not display the telephone number dialed on the screen. Is there a way to see the speed dialed telephone number?

[pc44]

Hi dennist,

Unfortunately, if you are using the OBI Speed Dial function, I do not know of any way to see the speed dialed number on your telephone's display while the dial is in progress.

The good news, however, is that you should be able to print out the OBI Speed Dial list from inside your OBI at User Settings -> Speed Dials.

pc44

[MurrayB]

I have never been successful printing out a speed dial list. Please explain how you did it.

[pc44]

I have never been successful printing out a speed dial list. Please explain how you did it.

I don't use the speed dial feature, but this is how I would print out the speed dial list.  Log in to your OBI device, go to the last option in the menu, User Settings then Speed Dials.  You should now see a listing of all of your speed dial numbers.  From here, I just go to Print Preview to make sure it looks right, and then I hit Print.  For test purposes, I just sent a test page to my PDF Printer, and it looks fine to me.  Are these the steps you are following, and am I missing something else here? 

pc44

[QBZappy]

MurrayB,

If you needed a txt file of that screen, you could use an OCR software to pull out the names and numbers.

[MurrayB]

Print preview only shows 1 page of 1 to number 34.

[Stewart]

For me, the main frame previews and prints correctly in Chrome and IE; Firefox previewed only the first page, but printing the frame to PDF gave three pages as expected.

[infin8loop]

Another option is to navigate directly to page http://ipaddress_here/SPEEDDIAL_.xml  which is normally displayed in the frame.  Probably better to be logged in first via http://ipaddress_here  and then in the same browser window go to http://ipaddress_here/SPEEDDIAL_.xml and print that page (no frames to deal with).

Or create a backup configuration xml file (locally) and import the xml it into MS Excel.  The speed dials are in the config file.

[pc44]

Print preview only shows 1 page of 1 to number 34.

So what happens when you actually hit the Print button?  It seems to work for us.

Also, if you are concerned about the Print Preview problem, you can always open the following address to print your list of Speed Dials:

http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI/SPEEDDIAL_.xml         (where IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI is your OBI's IP Address)

That should bring up the Speed Dial list all by itself,
pc44


EDIT:  infin8loop types too fast Beat me to it... in fact, his instructions are better because they include the export to spreadsheet option!!! Nice one!

[dennist]

Print preview only shows 1 page of 1 to number 34.

So what happens when you actually hit the Print button?  It seems to work for us.

Also, if you are concerned about the Print Preview problem, you can always open the following address to print your list of Speed Dials:

http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI/SPEEDDIAL_.xml         (where IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI is your OBI's IP Address)

That should bring up the Speed Dial list all by itself,
pc44


EDIT:  infin8loop types too fast Beat me to it... in fact, his instructions are better because they include the export to spreadsheet option!!! Nice one!

The name values are missing in this page.

[QBZappy]

The speed dials are in the config file.

+1

[MurrayB]

Five pages were printed. I never thought of that method. I tried to highlight etc. Thanks!

[infin8loop]

Print preview only shows 1 page of 1 to number 34.

So what happens when you actually hit the Print button?  It seems to work for us.

Also, if you are concerned about the Print Preview problem, you can always open the following address to print your list of Speed Dials:

http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI/SPEEDDIAL_.xml         (where IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI is your OBI's IP Address)

That should bring up the Speed Dial list all by itself,
pc44


EDIT:  infin8loop types too fast Beat me to it... in fact, his instructions are better because they include the export to spreadsheet option!!! Nice one!

The name values are missing in this page.

The "Parameter Name" is the number of the speed dial position.   So you should see 1, 2, 3 .... 99 in the "Parameter Name" column.  The numbers are left justified making them look like line numbers when they are in fact "name values". 

[dennist]

Print preview only shows 1 page of 1 to number 34.

So what happens when you actually hit the Print button?  It seems to work for us.

Also, if you are concerned about the Print Preview problem, you can always open the following address to print your list of Speed Dials:

http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI/SPEEDDIAL_.xml         (where IP_ADDRESS_OF_OBI is your OBI's IP Address)

That should bring up the Speed Dial list all by itself,
pc44


EDIT:  infin8loop types too fast Beat me to it... in fact, his instructions are better because they include the export to spreadsheet option!!! Nice one!

The name values are missing in this page.

The "Parameter Name" is the number of the speed dial position.   So you should see 1, 2, 3 .... 99 in the "Parameter Name" column.  The numbers are left justified making them look like line numbers when they are in fact "name values". 

There are three columns, ID#, Name and Number/Address, in Speed Dial Settings.

On http://ip_address_of_obi/SPEEDDIAL_.xml page, it shows only the ID# and Number/Address. The second column, Name, is not there. 

[pc44]

There are three columns, ID#, Name and Number/Address, in Speed Dial Settings.

On http://ip_address_of_obi/SPEEDDIAL_.xml page, it shows only the ID# and Number/Address. The second column, Name, is not there.

Hi dennist,

Where are you seeing this?  On my Speed Dial Settings, I only have the following three columns:

• Parameter Name
• Value
• Default

Where are you seeing the "Name" field?
pc44

[MichiganTelephone]

I think he confusion here comes from the fact that the OBiTALK portal lets you store a name next to each speed dial entry for identification purposes, but on the device itself, only the speed dial position and actual number are stored, probably to save memory space.  The device doesn't need the name to complete the call.  That may also explain why Obihai has never offered name matching from the speed dial list on incoming Google Voice calls (so that you would see the name in the speed dial list if the call is coming from a number you have stored there) - it's because the device doesn't store the name, or at least it doesn't appear to.

[dennist]

I think he confusion here comes from the fact that the OBiTALK portal lets you store a name next to each speed dial entry for identification purposes, but on the device itself, only the speed dial position and actual number are stored, probably to save memory space.  The device doesn't need the name to complete the call.  That may also explain why Obihai has never offered name matching from the speed dial list on incoming Google Voice calls (so that you would see the name in the speed dial list if the call is coming from a number you have stored there) - it's because the device doesn't store the name, or at least it doesn't appear to.

You're right on the target. Yes, I need to print the speed dial list from OBiTALK portal to see the names.

It's more convenient for uses to see the names for the speed dial operation when there are 99 entries. Skype does have this feature available on Skype To Go numbers print list. It should be not that difficult to add this feature into its portal by OBihai.