What is OutCALL?
OutCALL was designed as a commercial appplication allowing Asterisk users integration with Microsoft Outlook with placing and receiving phone calls.
After over 1000 downloads as a free application, Bicom Systems Ltd. has decided to offer OutCALL in open source format in order to further stimulate development of Asterisk and related open source projects.
After over 12,000 downloads on Source Forge, OutCALL has been moved to Google Code.
OutCALL is licensed under BSD Open Source license.
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 1.55 (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.
