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Apstel Visual Dialplan 2 review – run through with screenshots

October 16th 2008

voipphreak.ca, by Matt

“We’re going to focus on the additional features and what that means for us Dialplan Creation ninjas. With the release of version 2.0 comes quite a few changes under the hood and some visible to us end users.

First lets check out the Asterisk Server Configuration View. Here you can see the program allows for data from the Asterisk server to be populated right in the application. You can view all your settings right from the server while you’re creating dialplans. Great addition in our opinion.

Another new feature is the ability to customize the validation engine. Now you can set where you want breaks to happen, if at all.
So, say for instance you’re working on a large dialplan and you’ve only put placeholders in for certain things. Instead of having the validator fail when checking those items, instead you can have it skip over them so you can still write out your dialplan and perform live testing. This is pretty handy, and a great feature addition we’ve been waiting for with the application as it makes testing your new dialplans much more effective and easy.”

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Visual Dialplan 2 is available, the fastest way to build the Asterisk dialplan

September 4th 2008

Visual Dialplan for Asterisk is modern rapid application development platform for Asterisk dial plan development.

It comes with drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and large component library, handy dial plan samples, powerful validation engine, and single button deployment functionality. It even learns about Asterisk server configuration, pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates dial plan accordingly.

Visual Dialplan is the only Asterisk GUI that provides full access to Asterisk dialplan potential.

What is new in this release?

  • Asterisk server configuration view
  • Pre-populated components with configuration data read from Asterisk server
  • More powerful validation engine that now validates dial plan against Asterisk server configuration data
  • Ability to fine tune validation engine behavior
  • Improved GUI with descriptive toolbar icons
  • Ability to save dial plan graphical presentation as image file
  • Cepstral Text-to-Speech support
  • and more…

It is easy to use Visual Dialplan. Simply download full functional trial, install it in a minute and discover how easy Asterisk dialplan development can be!

Visual Dialplan v1.4 is released, now available for Linux and Windows platforms

May 28th 2008

The latest Visual Dialplan v1.4 for Asterisk® is now available for Windows and Linux operating systems, includes support for MySql database and much more.

This is the first official release of Linux version and we want to take this opportunity to thank you all for the tremendous contribution and support you have provided during the beta testing process – Thank you! The complimentary licenses will be on its way shortly!

Linux users will benefit with many new features like:

  • One button deployment with integrated SSH client
  • Custom component that facilitates reuse of existing dialplan code
  • Dialplan include functionality
  • Context or Macro include functionality
  • Personalize Visual Dialplan behavior using preferences
  • MySql support
  • and more…

Although Windows users already have many of these features we have some nice surprises for them too, like:

  • Integrated support for MySql database
  • Improved work area component dragging
  • Easier upgrade process
  • Fixed issues in AgentLogin and SetCallerPresComponent components
  • and more…

We strongly suggest and invite all Visual Dialplan v1.x users to take advantage of free upgrade to Visual Dialplan v1.4 and to download the latest visual dialplan.

Creating Visual Asterisk Dialplans with APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional

May 28th 2008

voipphreak.ca, by Matt

This is the first article in a series of four articles describing the inner workings of Visual Dialplan for Asterisk, how to use it, some advanced features, deploying dialplans and finally a review on the product. Matt and guys at voipphreak.ca did a great job reviewing the product and writing this educational text and we want to take this opportunity to thank them for their work.

“Today we’re going to talk about an interesting program from APSTel Visual Dialplan, which enables you to create Dialplans for your Asterisk PBX in a visual method. This enables both new Asterisk users, and seasoned professionals to quickly and efficiently create Asterisk Dialplans…”

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Visual Dialplan v1.3 is released, now with integrated SSH client, include capability, custom component and more

April 10th 2008

The latest Visual Dialplan v1.3 for Asterisk® brings commodity of a modern desktop rapid application development platform into the world of Linux and Asterisk dialplan development.

With Visual Dialplan you can deploy Asterisk Dialplan with a single press of a button using integrated SSH client directly from your Windows or Linux desktop, or include your existing Asterisk dialplan code created in a traditional way into the Visual Dialplan. You can even continue developing part of the code in a traditional way, or reuse already developed dialplan code using Custom Component.

Visual Dialplan v1.3 feature highlights:

  • One button deployment through integrated SSH client
  • Custom component that facilitate reuse of existing dialplan code
  • Dialplan include functionality
  • Context or Macro include functionality
  • Personalize behavior of you Visual Dialplan using preferences
  • and more…

We have also fixed several issues and improved behavior of several components.

We strongly suggest and invite all Visual Dialplan v1.x users to take advantage of free upgrade to Visual Dialplan v1.3 and to download the latest visual dialplan.