What is OutCALL?

OutCALL is an application designed for integration with Microsoft Outlook while placing and receiving phone calls. The application includes: Outlook contacts integration, incoming calls pop-up window notification, click to dial from email/contact.

The Enterprise Edition allows integration with Microsoft Exchange.

After over 1000 downloads as a free application, Bicom Systems has decided to offer OutCALL in open source format in order to further stimulate development of Asterisk and related open source projects.

OutCALL is licensed under BSD Open Source license.

OutCALL works with the Business PBX, Call Center PBX, and Multi-Tenant PBX (a Multi-Tenant IP PBX solution) editions of PBXware as well as with gloCOM and Softswitch.

For more information, see the Bicom Systems website or browse through our Products.

After over 12,000 downloads on Source Forge, OutCALL has been moved to Google Code.

OutCALL features are:

• Integration with one or unlimited system extensions (SIP/IAX)
• Automatic integration with Microsoft Outlook 2000 and higher
• Call History
• Real time call notifications via pop windows
• Placing calls within Microsoft Outlook, email message or contact
• Automatic contacts data update
• Automatic application updates notifications
• Clear debug information
• Full Asterisk integration

Changelog:

Version 1.60 (2010-10-05)

- Added following languages: German, Italian, Russian

- Fixed issues with MS Exchange GAL

- Fixed crashing of Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 and Windows Vista

- Fixed working directory for the OutCALL shortcut in Start Menu.

- When a new contact is added into Outlook from OutCALL, OutCALL's database is automatically synced with Outlook.

- Fixed adding of new contacts to Outlook 2007 when Outlook is not running.

- Fixed issue with focus for the phone number text field (Dial window).

- Fixed dialing a contact with only "Company" name set.

- Fixed dialing issue. First time it would place the call, second time it would fail.

- Fixed issue with removing of items in Call History.

- Fixed issue when dialing out from Call History.

- Fixed issue with Call History for placed calls. The number which was called was incorrect in the history of calls.

- Fixed critical bug in MAPI interface (Outlook 2002). Invalid flags were passed to IMsgStore::OpenEntry.

- Added missing Outlook dependencies required for compiling.

- Project is updated to Visual Studio 2010. There are also project files for VS 2005.

Version 1.55 (2008-07-02)

- Added support for Exchange Server.

Version 1.50 (2008-06-13)

- Added support for UNICODE. It is possible to compile OutCALL in Visual Studio with or without UNICODE support with the same codebase.

- OutCALL now uses Extended MAPI to load contacts from Outlook. It is now much faster and reliable.

- Added Outlook Import Rules (Settings->Outlook Import Rules). Theese rules apply for phone numbers loaded from Outlook as well as for outgoing calls placed from OutCALL.

- Added support for calls coming from Queue, showing the Queue number and CallerID.

- It is now possible to call from Outlook even if the selected contact is not in OutCALL's database.

- Added Bosnian, Spanish and Slovak translation.

- Added logging useful for debugging purposes ($APPLICATION_DATA\OutCALL\outcall.log).

- Added option to cancel process of loading Outlook Contacts.

- When invalid values are specified in Settings dialog for Server/Username/Port, user is automatically moved to the Server tab and the appropriate field is focused.

- Added "GNU gettext" dependencies to the Source Code package.

BUG fixes:

- Fixed critical bug when user is logged on as a domain user.

- Fixed memory leaks in MAPIEx interface.

- Fixed bug with memory leak in Call dialog.

- Fixed bug with Outlook plugin integration on a fresh Windows install.

- Fixed bug with Dial Window focus.

- Fixed problems with Outlook integration when running OutCALL as a normal user (both Windows XP and Vista).

- Some strings in user interface could not be translated. Fixed.

- "Incoming strip digits" option is fixed so that the largest prefix will be matched first.

- Fixed bug when Importing Contacts from CSV file.

- Added C/C++ runtime dependencies into setup.

- OutCALL stripes out "-" from the phone number before dialing out.

- In "auth" version of OutCALL it was possible to place calls from extensions for which user was not authorized in OutCALL. Fixed.

- Fixed GUI control alignment in Settings dialog.

- Reorganized some internal staff in the code.