SPA508G XML Phone Book

[Mogens Lunde]

We have a small office and our two SPA508G's are not connected to a PBX with phone book functionality. Therefore I would like to create a phonebook available via WAN. Tried to put an empty file phonebook.xml into a folder at a given url, but it seems as I need to know the layout of the phonebook to do this? Have not been able to find the layout, so can anyone help with this?

Is it correct that this would then work by updating the file in the "Phone" Tab field "XML Directory Service Name" and with the URL in "XML Directory Service URL"

Thanks.

[Patrick Born · Accepted solution]

Hi Mogens,

The directory example may provide you with some pointers. It's in the XML section:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-11158

Regards,

Patrick

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[Mogens Lunde]

Thanks Patrick. Your answer was very helpful and made it work the way I intended. Or almost! The directory shows up nicely on the phone as option 3 underneath 1) NewPersonalDirEntry and 2) SearchPersonalDirectory, but for some reason the phone does not match the numbers in the directory with incoming call numbers, so that the name of the caller is displayed rather than the number. Previously I tried to us 3CX, and with their corporate phone book, this functionality worked. But I still only see a phone number rather than the name of the caller.

The XML code is as shown underneath, so I wonder if some tags might be missing to tell the phone to use the to display :

#

Select the User

#

John Doe

12345678

......