[Serusers] How to change display name

[Steve Blair]

Jiri Kuthan wrote:

>At 23:23 09/08/2006, Steve Blair wrote:
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>>Please clarify. "...downloading the corresponding number...". From where to where? Do you mean extracting the user portion of the From header URI from the usr_preference table?
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>Well, that's the kind of documentation issues which are badly backlogged :-)
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>with the upcoming SER release, all user information is gathered in user_attrs table.
>This table includes the caller identity, as well as anything else you may wish to
>associate with a subscriber (gender, credit-card, etc.) keyed by user's UID.
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>One of the attributes may then look as this:
>{ uid="24393jf2434-f", name="asserted_id", value="+19199199191" }
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I use the usr_preferences table in much the same way today. Flags such 
as "allow_local" are defined for each subscriber and keyed to the 
subscriber id. Then I use avps to load and check these flags to 
determine how to process the "call".


>The attribute is called after caller's authentication from the user_attrs table.
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>Then we use AVP processing to print the AVP using one's favorite header field:
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>set_attr("rpidheader", "<sip:%$asserted_id@%@ruri.host>;screen=yes");
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I like the ability to use avps in function calls. That should be great.

_Steve

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>the down side is we have not released this new version of SER yet and at the 
>moment I dont dare to give estimates.
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>-jri
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>Jiri Kuthan            http://iptel.org/~jiri/ 
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