Not sure if this helps but I created a speed dial for the home screen that searches the phonebook for the contact the Zoom Connector API places in favorites. Once found, it dials into zoom, automatically identifies your unit as a registered CRC licensed user and then you just enter any meeting ID and passphrase - caveat, the host must make sure the passphrase is numeric only.
Issue - Zoom API constantly changes the uri for the Zoom contact it places in the "Favorites" directory. I wanted to create a speed dial on the home screen for calling zoom with the uri set by the Zoom API.
Why? A number of reasons:
1 – If you dial into a zoom meeting and the host does not have a CRC license then the Webex units WILL NOT join audio and video. Why again? Webex units use Cisco Spark, WebRTC, h323 or SIP thus, we have to connect using h323 or SIP.
2 – You never know if the host has a CRC license or not and we must error on the side of user experience so we need to dial-in using our own Zoom CRC license each time to avoid pairing or other nonsense
3 – To dial Zoom using our CRC license, the user must go to “Call”, click favorites, and then click “Join Zoom Meeting”
- All quick access buttons are on the main tablet screen so having a one-off is not ideal.
A speed dial on the home screen is not a big deal IF the sip address or uri never changes however, Zoom’s CRC API constantly changes thus making a static speed dial useless.
Solution: Create a speed dial that dynamically updates on the fly or as soon as the button called “Zoom-Call” is pressed.
Solution Steps:
Create a macro that searches the phonebook for a "SearchString:Zoom" matching part of the contact name found in favorites, find the contact, extract the uri and then dials the uri.
Attached are my scraps for this endeavor but could prove useful for future macros.
Here’s the final code that works!!
----begin code----
const xapi = require('xapi');
function callZoom(contact) {
console.log("Zoom contact found:", contact); // Log the Zoom contact details
// Extract the the contact details
const sipUri = contact.Contact[0].ContactMethod[0].Number;
if (sipUri && sipUri[1]) {
const phoneNumber = sipUri[1];
console.log("Zoom phone number:", sipUri ); // Log the extracted phone number
// Use the extracted phone number to initiate a dial command
xapi.command('dial', { Number: phoneNumber, Protocol: 'Sip'});
} else {
console.log("No Zoom phone number found.");
// Handle the case where the Zoom phone number is not found or does not match the expected pattern
}
}
// Only run when the home-screen panel-icon called Zoom-Call is clicked
xapi.event.on('UserInterface Extensions Panel Clicked', (event) => {
if (event.PanelId === 'Zoom-Call') {
//Run a search against the Phone book - SearchString is most important here
xapi.command('Phonebook Search',
{PhonebookType: "Local", SearchString: "Zoom", SearchFilter: "People", ContactType: "Contact"}).then(callZoom);
}});
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