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How about an Advanced setup / Exclusions page in OBiTALK portal?

Started by MichiganTelephone, January 30, 2011, 12:07:34 PM

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MichiganTelephone

When you use the OBiTALK portal to configure your device, it's an all-or-nothing thing.  My suggestion is that you have an "advanced" section that would list all of the configuration pages found in the device and have a checkbox next to each, that you could uncheck if you do not want the portal to configure that page.  So, for example, you could have the portal configure your SP1 settings but not your SP2 settings.

In time you could make it even more granular, to allow exclusion of certain sections within a configuration page, or even in some cases individual settings (perhaps allowing you to enter your "custom" settings in the portal, so they would be written instead of any default configuration).  But to start with, the ability to exclude pages from configuration would be most helpful.
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SIPit

I agree.  It would seem that (on the UI side) it could be a simple as adding another checkbox column called "Lock" next to each setting.  The box would be unchecked for all settings by default.  When checked, it would not allow the setting to be changed either manually or by the OBiTALK portal.  Obviously, this would require additional code changes behind the scenes.

Northern.Bob

I'd actually want it to be more granular than MT proposes. I'd want the Portal to only change settings that were changed at the Portal. An example would be that if I added a "Trusted Caller ID" at the Portal, that's all that would be recorded/overwritten on the OBi. Thus I could make changes at both ends when necessary.

QBZappy

Northern.Bob,

Your suggestion would keep it simple. Good one.
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