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Valid dial string characters and using the asterisk

For AE Services dial plan settings, valid dial string characters are: all digits (0-9), the number sign (#), and the asterisk (*).
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The following characters are not valid characters in the E.164 number: periods (.), dashes and hyphens (-), parentheses (), and forward slash (/). However, the property avaya.aes.sametime.e164_ignore_dialcharacters may be configured such that the Presence Services ignores those characters when found in telephone numbers in the LDAP directory.

The asterisk as literal

If your dial plan uses the asterisk, and you need to configure a dial plan rule that detects the asterisk character, you must precede the asterisk with a backslash (\*).

For example, if you need to have the asterisk interpreted as a literal asterisk in either the Matching Pattern field or the Replacement String field of a From TelURI table, you must precede the asterisk with a backslash. If you do not precede the asterisk with a backslash, it will be interpreted as a wildcard value for any valid character.

The asterisk as a wildcard

When you want to use the asterisk as a wildcard for any character, you must use it as a single character (by itself). That is, when used as a wildcard, the asterisk can not be preceded or followed by any other character.