I know this is an Economics blog but I think this is something that many people would find useful. When dialing into webex, we go through a tedious process of entering conference id and access id which in many cases is same for your weekly meetings. It is even more frustrating when you have to dial into your own meeting number which you conduct several times in a week. So this is a small way to automate your calling which I learned from my boss recently and I thought of sharing this.
Assume following conference call settings for your own webex.
Dial in number: 1-888-123-4567
Host Access ID: 987654
Attendee ID: 543210
PIN: 1234
Now to automate dialing into this Webex and avoid manually entering these numbers each time, do this.
On your notepad or calendar on iPhone or Android, enter following (assuming above numbers) if this is your own conference (on iPhone today you cannot enter commas thats why you need an editor for this and copy paste. May be you can enter commas in Android phone keypad. In that case just do it directly):
18881234567,,987654#,,1234#
Copy and paste it on your phone keypad and create a contact. Dial in. You should be able to dial into conference automatically.
If you are an attendee into this conference, then process for you would be:
18881234567,,543210#,,#
Again, paste it on your keypad and then just create a contact and dial in.
If you are still wondering, those commas are required to add a pause.
