FAQ
Visual Dialplan is innovative software tool for visual modeling of Asterisk dialplan. Using drag and drop capabilities, intuitive component editors, predefined sample dialplans and context sensitive help, new dialplan can be built and maintained quickly and easily.
Visual Dialplan enables Asterisk users to create complex dialplans in a convenient, intuitive and natural way using comfort of a modern Rapid Application Development environment without sacrificing functionality of a standard Asterisk dialplan.
Visual Dialplan supports both major Asterisk distributions, Asterisk v1.2.x and Asterisk v1.4.x.
Simply because this is the easiest and fastest way to create new Asterisk dialplan, you do not need to have Asterisk dialplan experience to create large and complex dialplans. Simply drag, drop and connect predefined dialplan blocks to create Asterisk dialplan.
With Visual Dialplan you will visualize your Asterisk dialplan, create new dialplans in minutes using provided samples and visual tools, and easily maintain complex and large dialplan using comfort of modern Rapid Application Development environment.
Although everyone involved with Asterisk dialplan development and maintenance will benefit from using Visual Dialplan we had in mind the following users when creating Visual Dialplan:
Asterisk dialplan developers
- Visualize Asterisk dialplan and never write a line of code anymore. Simply drag, drop and connect dialplan blocks to make company IVR, Call Center queues, inbound and outbound call flows, voicemail boxes, conferencing etc.
- Use samples (templates) to create standard dialplan in minutes. Visual Dialplan makes dialplan development easy and fun, no need to have Asterisk dialplan experience to create large dialplans.
- Create complex dialplans in a convenient, intuitive and natural way using comfort of a modern Rapid Application Development environment without sacrificing functionality and capability of a standard Asterisk dialplan.
Asterisk consultants and professionals
- Easily maintain and manage complex and large dialplans.
Asterisk management and GUI vendors
- Enhance your Asterisk based solution by plugging in Visual Dialplan and providing innovative dialplan management solution to your customers.
Current version of Visual Dialplan is available for Microsoft Windows operating system only. Linux version is on its way and will be available soon.
Visual Dialplan requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6.0 which is included within the Visual Dialplan download package.
Fully functional free of charge trial version of Visual Dialplan is available for download at our web site. Simply follow the link below and download either Standard or Professional version of the installation package.
Trial version is full functional and the only limitation is the number of dialplan savings. Current trial version is limited to 25 dialplan savings.
We think that 25 savings will give you enough time to try and get familiar with Visual Dialplan. However, if you have reached the limit but are still not familiar with the product and would like to learn more about it, please feel free to contact us at support@apstel.com and we may, in our sole discretion, extend the trial for you.
When you are ready to deploy the dialplan, just select the Build toolbar button and Visual Dialplan will generate standard extensions.conf file that can be uploaded to the Asterisk configuration directory (i.e. /etc/asterisk/).
Current version of the Visual Dialplan does not support Asterisk Realtime Architecture. Realtime Architecture support is on our roadmap and will be implemented in some of the future releases.
Current version of Visual Dialplan does not support it but we have that feature on our roadmap and will implement it in some of the future releases of Visual Dialplan or in a separate application.
A strong component of our strategy is forging relationships with partners.
If you are interested in integrating Visual Dialplan with your Asterisk management solution/GUI or your are interested in reselling Visual Dialplan or you have an idea that you think would be beneficial for both, please do not hesitate and contact us at . We would be happy to discuss it further with you.