Topic: Outlook Dialer [Comments: 10]
k3leland

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 09:15 | Outlook Dialer

What are the requirements to get the Outlook Dialer working with Thirdlane MTE.

I am expecting the requirements to be something like:

Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7
MS Outlook: 2000/2002/2003/2007/2010
*No NAT for XYZ feature to work.

Is there some documentation like this somewhere i have overlooked?
If not can TL please provide some?

Thanks.

k3leland

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 16:17 | Currently there is no mention

Currently there is no mention of version requirements here:
http://www.thirdlane.com/products/thirdlane-dialer

Which leads one to believe that it supports every version of outlook.

eeman

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 18:17 | technically its old software

technically its old software that is free for use, but comes with no support. if it works, great, if it doesnt, dont bother to complain because it was free in the first place =)

Erik Smith
CTO
BluegrassNet Voice
dCAP
Thirdlane Support by BluegrassNet Voice
eeman at bluegrassnetvoice dot com

thirdlane

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 05:25 | Outlook dialer

Works with XP, does not really work with Vista (hardly anything does :)), we have not tested with 7

Works with Outlook up to 2007 - have not tested with 2010.

It is getting old and as Erik said - it is free and unsupported. That said, if there was enough interest we could revive the project, make it cross platform, etc. It is just not on our priority list at the moment.

Alex Epshteyn
Third Lane Technologies
Multi-tenant Asterisk PBX

k3leland

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 18:25 | OK, so what about the

OK, so what about the implications of the PC being behind NAT? Are there any?

eeman

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 18:32 | plenty.. you can only use the

plenty.. you can only use the software to send communication to thirdlane. Expect no communication from thirdlane to the app to function (popups, finding callerid of inbound call in outlook, etc)

Erik Smith
CTO
BluegrassNet Voice
dCAP
Thirdlane Support by BluegrassNet Voice
eeman at bluegrassnetvoice dot com

k3leland

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 21:05 | Doesn't work with Outlook

Doesn't work with Outlook 2000 on XP Home Edition SP3.
Error on Outlook startup following: Run Time Eror '459' object or class does not support the set of elements. The standalone dialer worked, except it didn't remember the password across system reboots.

Doesn't work with Outlook 2010 on XP Pro SP3.
Thirdlane Dialer shows up in Outlook under add-ins. The first time you open an email the numbers are detected and added to the drop down. At this point you can choose one, press enter and it dials the number and rings your phone. However, any subsequent emails that you open show the list of numbers from the first email, and you cannot dial them any longer. Functionality is restored when you restart the Outlook Application but again it only works for one email before becoming hosed again. This seems like it may be an easy fix since its mostly working. The standalone dialer worked.

Alex,
Did you mean to say that it works with Outlook from 2003 to 2007? Or is it possible that there is something corrupt in my Outlook 2000 installation?

Has anyone got this working with Outlook 2000 or earlier?

eeman

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 23:29 | the oldest version I ever

the oldest version I ever used it with was Office XP (aka 2001) but at that time it had problems with office 2003. I know that it does work with office 2003 now, but making it work with newer versions may have come at a cost of some really old versions.

Erik Smith
CTO
BluegrassNet Voice
dCAP
Thirdlane Support by BluegrassNet Voice
eeman at bluegrassnetvoice dot com

thirdlane

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 14:20 | Outlook versions

As far as I remember it worked with Outlook 2003 and 2007. Unfortunately each version of Outlook breaks something and tweaking was always required. It is not practical for us to support all versions of Outlook on all platforms - as you can imagine it is a testing nightmare. At some point we only supported dialing numbers from the contacts and not the email - perhaps that would have been more stable, but customers asked for email support - perhaps we could go back and build a version without email support and hopefully with more compatibility. Regardless - I would not know where to test 2010 - we don't use Outlook here.

Alex Epshteyn
Third Lane Technologies
Multi-tenant Asterisk PBX

brandilton

Tue, 02/01/2011 - 23:19 | I got this to work with

I got this to work with outlook 2010 without any problems... I am not getting the small window to show up on incoming calls. I saw Erik said not to expect it to work... has anyone found a work around?

eeman

Wed, 02/02/2011 - 02:05 | your only work-around is to

your only work-around is to put your PC's on a public IP directly.

Erik Smith
CTO
BluegrassNet Voice
dCAP
Thirdlane Support by BluegrassNet Voice
eeman at bluegrassnetvoice dot com