Adding to the Dial Plan using Copy and Paste

You can use the copy and paste shortcut to add certain entities to the dial plan.

For example, if you have one gatekeeper group in a region and want to add another gatekeeper group with the same attributes, use copy and paste.  The copy command creates a gatekeeper group with the same attribute information. The paste command adds this new gatekeeper group to the dial plan. After you paste the gatekeeper group, you must change the Name entry field. You cannot commit a dial plan that has two entities with the same name.

You can only use copy and paste to add like entities to the appropriate parent in the dial plan. (For example, you cannot copy a server trigger and paste it into a region, you cannot copy a gatekeeper group and paste it in to the AD, or you cannot copy a gatekeeper group and past it in a region as a directory gatekeeper group)

The following dial plan entities can only be added using the right-click menu. Refer to the specific section in the online help.

Use this procedure to copy and paste dial plan entities.

Procedure

You must be in the Design View to copy and paste entities in to the dial plan.

  1. Expand the dial plan tree to view all components.

  2. Select the dial plan entity you want to duplicate.

  3. Right-click and choose Copy from the menu.

  4. Select the appropriate parent in the dial plan you want to add this duplicated entity to.

  5. Right-click and choose Paste from the menu.

  6. Click the Attributes tab.

  7. Right-click and choose Edit from the menu.

  8. Edit the attribute information. You must edit the Name attribute. You cannot have two dial plan entities with the same attribute information.

  9. Choose Refresh from the Window menu to update the design session display.

The duplicated entity is added to the dial plan.