---
title: "VICIdial Integration"
description: "Connect Dograh to VICIdial through Asterisk ARI for call control, in-group transfers, and lead updates"
---

## Overview

Use this integration when VICIdial owns the customer call and connects Dograh
to it through Asterisk. Dograh uses Asterisk ARI for audio and VICIdial APIs for
operations that must affect the original customer leg:

- Hang up the customer call when the agent ends the conversation
- Transfer the customer to a VICIdial in-group
- Update selected VICIdial lead fields from gathered workflow context

VICIdial controls are an advanced organization feature. Users who do not enable
the feature do not see VICIdial configuration, transfer mappings, or lead field
mappings in the UI.

## Prerequisites

Before configuring VICIdial, ensure that:

- Asterisk ARI is connected to Dograh as described in the
  [Asterisk ARI integration](./asterisk-ari)
- VICIdial sends the customer call to the Asterisk dialplan that enters the
  Dograh Stasis application
- You have VICIdial agent API credentials with permission to hang up and
  perform in-group transfers
- If workflows will update leads, you also have non-agent API credentials with
  permission to call `update_lead`

## Enable the organization feature

1. Open **Platform Settings** by going to https://app.dograh.com/settings
2. Enable **External PBX integrations**.

This switch reveals the advanced settings in Asterisk telephony
configurations, Transfer Call tools, and workflow configurations. Disabling it
hides and disables those controls without deleting their saved values.

## Configure VICIdial credentials

1. Open **Telephony Configurations**.
2. Create or edit an **Asterisk ARI** configuration.
3. In **External PBX**, set **External PBX Type** to **VICIdial**.
4. Configure the agent API:
   - **Agent API URL**: normally ends in `/agc/api.php`
   - **Agent API User**
   - **Agent API Password**
5. To update leads, configure the non-agent API:
   - **Non-Agent API URL**: normally ends in `/vicidial/non_agent_api.php`
   - **Non-Agent API User**
   - **Non-Agent API Password**
6. Save the configuration.

The non-agent API is optional when no lead updates are required. If it is used,
its URL, user, and password must all be present. Credentials are stored with the
telephony configuration and are returned masked by the Dograh API.

## Pass VICIdial call identity to Asterisk

Dograh needs VICIdial's call identity to control the original customer leg.
Configure VICIdial or the connecting dialplan to preserve these SIP headers on
the call that enters the Dograh Stasis application:

| Header | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `X-VICIDIAL-callerid` | Call-control identifier used by the agent API |
| `X-VICIDIAL-user` | Remote-agent user used by the agent API |
| `X-VICIDIAL-lead_id` | Lead identifier used by optional lead updates |
| `X-VICIDIAL-campaign_id` | **(Optional)** Campaign context retained with the call |
| `X-VICIDIAL-ingroup_id` | **(Optional)** Original in-group available to transfer fallback routing |

Hangup and transfer require the call-control identifier and remote-agent user.
Lead updates additionally require the lead ID. The source in-group header is
only required when a transfer mapping uses the `source` fallback.

## Configure in-group transfers

In-group mappings select a VICIdial destination from information gathered by
the agent during a call.

1. Open or create a **Transfer Call** tool.
2. Select **Context Mapping** as the destination source.
3. Enter a context path, such as `qualified` or
   `extracted_variables.qualified`.
4. Add one route for each expected value and its destination in-group ID.
5. Optionally configure a fallback in-group. Enter `source` to return the
   caller to the original in-group captured from the SIP headers.
6. Save the tool and attach it to the workflow.

The match is case-insensitive. Dograh performs final variable extraction before
resolving the mapping. If no route or fallback matches, the transfer fails and
the agent can recover instead of silently hanging up the caller.

## Configure lead field mappings

Lead field mappings copy selected values from gathered context into the
VICIdial lead before transfer or hangup.

1. Open the workflow's **Configurations** dialog.
2. In **External PBX Field Updates**, add a mapping.
3. Enter the gathered-context path and the destination VICIdial lead field.
4. Add any additional mappings and save the workflow configuration.

For example, map `extracted_variables.customer_state` to `state`. A context
path can address a direct gathered-context value or a nested value. Mappings
whose source value is absent are skipped.

The VICIdial adapter ignores mappings that target the API control parameters
`source`, `user`, `pass`, `function`, and `lead_id`. The non-agent API
configuration is required for mappings to be applied. A lead-update failure
does not prevent Dograh from attempting the requested transfer or hangup.

## Runtime behavior

When the workflow transfers the call, Dograh resolves the configured in-group,
applies available lead updates, asks VICIdial to transfer the customer leg, and
then closes only the local Asterisk media leg.

When the conversation ends without a transfer, Dograh persists final gathered
context, applies available lead updates, asks VICIdial to hang up the customer
leg, and then closes the local Asterisk leg.

## Troubleshooting

- **VICIdial settings are not visible:** enable **External PBX integrations**
  in Platform Settings.
- **The local media leg ends but the customer remains connected:** confirm that
  `X-VICIDIAL-callerid` and `X-VICIDIAL-user` reach Asterisk and that the agent
  API credentials can control the call.
- **A transfer cannot resolve a destination:** inspect the workflow's final
  gathered context, the configured context path, and the mapping values.
- **The `source` fallback fails:** ensure `X-VICIDIAL-ingroup_id` is present on
  the inbound call.
- **Lead fields are unchanged:** confirm `X-VICIDIAL-lead_id`, the non-agent API
  credentials, and the destination field names.
