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Show Extension number + Name on display

Matthias Klein

February 11, 2023 16:36

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Right now, and using pretty much just default settings, Yeastar [P-Series SE] only provisions the Extension name to the phone displays.

I would like to propose that Yeastar provisions both the extension number as well as the name. Pattern:

Number | Name

I have used 3CX in the past few years, and they do that, and I found it quite helpful.

Here are some before (3CX) and after (Yeastar) pictures:

On a Yealink VP59

 

On a Yealink T46s

 

On a Yealink T41s

 

On a Snom D715

 

On a Yealink W56p (with W60B DECT Base):

I forgot to take a "before" picture, but instead of "Headset 1", it would show "15 | Kitchen".

 

Additional remarks:

1. The WARNING icon or text on the displays in the after (Yeastar) pictures are shown because Yeastar - unlike 3CX - does NOT follow good security practice and does NOT automatically change the phone passwords with a strong, random value (a different one for each phone), and also does not provision new passwords automatically every few weeks.
   
   
2. 3CX also automatically provisions a logo (which could be replaced with a custom one), and a nice matching color template. Yeastar seems to use default colors and no logo / background image. That's certainly not a must-have, but it would look nice if Yeastar allowed for something like that as well. AFTER the important things have been fixed / implemented, of course :)

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  Daniel Anderson February 12, 2023 22:36

  Would be good if the label format was a system option.
  i.e in general system settings and give a couple of options:
  Extension Number
  Extension Number | Extension Name
  Extension Name
  etc.
  
  If you have an immediate want/need to have this format, you can modify the label pretty easily - just create a custom template and add something like this to the top of the custom template (under the file header "#!version:1.0.0.1"):
  account.{{.Account}}.label = {{.AccountRegistrationExtNumber}} | {{.AccountLabel}}

  That should get you the same ExtensionNumber | ExtensionName format you're after.

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  Matthias Klein February 12, 2023 23:22

  I agree it should be a system setting.

  Yes, I know I can "fake" the desired result (even by writing "Number | Name" into the "Name" field etc.), but I think the Yeastar product would benefit if it was exactly the type of system setting you describe.