Does not paste cell phone numbers in Skpe call cell phone input area

[anthonyalvarez]

Two issues

1. How to transfer phone number to Skype?
2. How to call using a Skype name rather than phone number?

How to transfer phone number to Skype?

TBDialOut only opens Skype after pressing TBDialOut's dial button from Thunderbird's address book (TBAB). It stops there. Is there anything that can be done to make TBDialOut actually place the call?

It would be more elegant for TBDialOut to paste actual phone number from TBAB into Skype's "call cell phone" field and finally press enter to start call.

Am I doing something wrong?

How to call using a Skype name rather than phone number?

Also would like to be able to start call using Skype User Name rather than an phone number.
Can it be done? Refer to Skype Name Usage for details.

My Rig

• OS: Win7 ultimate 32 bit.
• Skype version 7.8.0.102
• Thunderbird version: 38.2.0

[tipichris]

The first issue may well be related to this:
www.oak-wood.co.uk/faq/content/4/21/en/tbdialout-opens-the-skype-dial-window-but-it-doesn_t-fill-in-the-number-what_s-wrong.html

It is a limitation of skype that it expects to be handed number in full international format. If it isn't, it doesn't use them.

As for the second issue, TBDialOut was designed as a utility to place phone calls to phone numbers. It looks only in the phone number fields in the TBAB, not the chat fields (in fact I'm not sure the chat fields had been included in TBAB when TBDialOut was written). It currently supports only numeric phone numbers listed in fields that are expected to contain voice numbers (ie it doesn't support the fax or pager fields). I'll accept this as an enhancement request, but I'm afraid at present I have almost no time for development and it is unlikely to happen.