XML Extend API: Request a URL to be displayed

[Matt87]

Is it possible to send a request through the API to display a URL to a certain user/extension?

[lorsungcu]

Where would you like the URL displayed? Are you trying to display the contents of a URL somewhere, or just the URL string?

[Matt87]

First, thanks for your reply.


I am trying to have it displayed in the agent's existing custom switchboard panel, or pop up as a new panel/window. The url could be anything, but to keep it simple google. I would like to be able to send a command through the XML API to display www.google.com to an agent.

[dpodolsky]

You just need to create a Switchboard Panel in the admin and then give the user access to display it in their Switchboard. We have an entire section in our Wiki showing you an example of how to do this. The example even includes using www.google.com like you requested:

http://developers.digium.com/switchvox/wiki/index.php/SwitchboardPanels_overview

Hope this helps.

[Matt87]

You just need to create a Switchboard Panel in the admin and then give the user access to display it in their Switchboard. We have an entire section in our Wiki showing you an example of how to do this. The example even includes using http://www.google.com like you requested:

http://developers.digium.com/switchvox/wiki/index.php/SwitchboardPanels_overview

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the tip, but i have already done that, I understand how to make a custom switchboard panel and give it an address like google. What i need is a way to communicate with the switchboard via the API. I need a url request to be sent via XML and change the url of the switchboard on the fly.

[dpodolsky]

I understand. Currently, the only event that tells the Switchboard to refresh is when a new call comes into the Switchboard.

If you want to change the URL in the Switchboard then you can/should do this outside Switchvox. Since the URL you display in the Switchboard is under your control you could write some simple Javascript that did an AJAX request back to a server to see if it needed to refresh. You could make this happen every 5 seconds, or use something like COMET to do it on demand.

If you want refresh a page you don't control (like google.com) then you will point to your own URL (server) and then put google.com in an IFRAME. Your page will do the checks like I recommended above and then refresh the page in the Iframe.

There is plenty of information online about refreshing a webpage on demand.

Hope this helps.