# Polycom 501 & DID

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/polycom-501-did/8934>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [September 1, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/polycom-501-did/8934 "2006-09-01T04:48:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Doc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/doc/32/1246_2.png) [@Doc](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Doc)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/polycom-501-did/8934/1 "2006-09-01T04:48:09Z")

</div>

Does anyone have any experience programming a polycom phone and making one if it’s softkeys a dialout for a DID #?

I’m able to successfully make a call in through the DID & \*, want to try dialing out using that #.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![zmanea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8dc957/32.png) [@zmanea](https://community.asterisk.org/u/zmanea)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/polycom-501-did/8934/2 "2006-09-02T23:54:52Z")

</div>

You could use a soft key our you could just setup an extension that uses set callerid to your did. Example below, but not tested, syntax could be wrong.

exten = 7xxxxx.,1,SetCallerID("VIP \<8675309\>)  
exten = 7xxxxx.,2,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}:1@pbx)  
exten = 7xxxxx.,3,Hangup