asterisk users - Jun 2006 - Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid extension is dialed

I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan
that has a number of included contexts.  Right now the system is not
announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so callers
get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension but
asterisk didn't pick everything up.  I would like to have the system
announce the entension that they attempted to dial in addition to the
error message.  However, at the part where the error announcement is
made, the extension is set to "i", so I no longer know what digits the
caller dialed.  I tried inserting a wildcard extension before this
point that saves the dialed digits in a variable, but since my
wildcard extension matches everything, it no longer things that an
invalid extension was dialed, so it doesn't go to the "i"
extension.
Is there a way I can erase the fact that an extension was matched?  Or
is there some other way of accomplishing what I am trying to do?

Thanks,
Carl

Does SayDigits(${EXTEN}) not work in this case?  I would imagine that it would
still maintain the dialled extension in that variable, would it not?

Undrhil


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I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan
> that has a number of included contexts.  Right now the system is not
>
announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so
callers
>
get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension
but
> asterisk
didn't pick everything up.  I would like to have the
system
> announce the
entension that they attempted to dial in addition to the
> error message.
 However, at the part where the error announcement is
> made, the extension
is set to "i", so I no longer know what digits
the
> caller dialed.  I tried
inserting a wildcard extension before this
> point that saves the dialed
digits in a variable, but since my
> wildcard extension matches everything,
it no longer things that an
> invalid extension was dialed, so it doesn't
go to the "i" extension.
> Is there a way I can erase the fact that an extension
was matched?  Or
> is there some other way of accomplishing what I am trying
to do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl
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http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Variables

Use ${INVALID_EXTEN}


On 6/15/06, Carl Youngblood <carl@youngbloods.org>
wrote:
>
> I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan
> that has a number of included contexts.  Right now the system is not
> announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so callers
> get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension but
> asterisk didn't pick everything up.  I would like to have the system
> announce the entension that they attempted to dial in addition to the
> error message.  However, at the part where the error announcement is
> made, the extension is set to "i", so I no longer know what
digits the
> caller dialed.  I tried inserting a wildcard extension before this
> point that saves the dialed digits in a variable, but since my
> wildcard extension matches everything, it no longer things that an
> invalid extension was dialed, so it doesn't go to the "i"
extension.
> Is there a way I can erase the fact that an extension was matched?  Or
> is there some other way of accomplishing what I am trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
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Thanks Doug, but this would not have helped me.  Fortunately the
${INVALID_EXTEN} response was exactly what I needed, but your
suggestion would not have worked, because if an extension is found, it
no longer goes to exten => i.  So the variable setting approach ends
up altering the flow of the dialplan.

On 6/16/06, Doug Lytle <support@drdos.info> wrote:
> Carl Youngblood wrote:
> > No, ${EXTEN} contains "i" at that point in the dialplan.
>
> exten => 123,1,Set(_TMPEXTEN=${EXTEN})
> exten => i,1,SayDigit({$TEMPEXTEN})
>
> You need to read the document in the Asterisk source directory on the
> subject of variable inheritance.
>
> asterisk/doc/README.variables.
>
> Doug
>
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