Phone Number Display Filter; Phone Formatting Rules Fields - Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Administration Manual

System Configuration
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Enter the following fields.
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Table 2-17 Phone Formatting Rules Fields
Extension Pattern
Custom Formatting Pattern
Custom Replacement String
Pre-Configured Custom Rules
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For a description of regular expressions, see Edit DAS rules.

Phone number display filter

This field allows the system administrator to change the formatting and content of the way
telephone numbers are displayed within the user interface and on CDRs (reports).
The filter pattern is a "regular expression" that gets applied to a telephone number before
displaying it; it does not affect what numbers are dialed or saved. Regular expressions are a
flexible and powerful syntax for textual pattern matching and replacement. They are
commonly used in UNIX and Linux systems (for example, the grep command) as well as in
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Phone number display filter
Enter the regular expression that defines the
numbers to be considered as extensions.
Enter the regular expression that will be used to
format numbers as they will appear in the end-
user interface.
If you enter /''/ (slash, single quote,
Note:
single quote, slash) in the Custom Formatting
Pattern, you will be able to easily delete users
and change user settings.
This represents the replacement section within
the regular expression in the Custom Formatting
Pattern. If a phone number matches the Custom
Formatting Pattern, it will be reformatted using
this string.
The Custom Replacement String must
Note:
result in a fully formed IEEE phone number.
US 7-Digit Dialing: This option automatically
fills in the Custom Formatting Pattern and
Custom Replacement String with a pattern that
allows 7-digit dialing in the United States.
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