asterisk users - Nov 2006 - dynamically modifying the dialplan?

Hi Brian,

many thanks to you for your answers in the past! The always gave me the
little bit of mising information...
My Asterisk box is running fine now so I want to try the "next
step"...

And now to all of you ....

What I want to implement is to use 1 button of my snom-360 phone for
following purpose:

If I leave my desk I press this button. A light should show up as an
indicator/reminder. From this moment all calls to my extension should
immediately be transferred to my voicemail box.

When I return I press the button again, the light goes off and all calls
to my extension should ring my phone again.

Now, can I achieve this with a static dialplan in extensions.conf or do
I have to use all that Realtime + DB magic?

Many thanks,
Norbert

I think its same as DND (do not disturb ) . It can be activated by *78 and
deactivated by *79 . I use freepbx for configuration so i am not sure if its
there in default asterisk setup . I snipped some part of my configuration
from freepbx's config files

[app-dnd-on]
exten => *78,1,Answer
exten => *78,n,Wait(1)
exten => *78,n,Macro(user-callerid,)
exten => *78,n,Set(DB(DND/${CALLERID(number)})=YES)
exten => *78,n,Playback(do-not-disturb&activated)
exten => *78,n,Macro(hangupcall,)

[app-dnd-off]
exten => *79,1,Answer
exten => *79,n,Wait(1)
exten => *79,n,Macro(user-callerid,)
exten => *79,n,dbDel(DND/${CALLERID(number)})
exten => *79,n,Playback(do-not-disturb&de-activated)
exten => *79,n,Macro(hangupcall,)





On 12/11/06, Norbert Zawodsky <norbert@zawodsky.at>
wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> many thanks to you for your answers in the past! The always gave me the
> little bit of mising information...
> My Asterisk box is running fine now so I want to try the "next
step"...
>
> And now to all of you ....
>
> What I want to implement is to use 1 button of my snom-360 phone for
> following purpose:
>
> If I leave my desk I press this button. A light should show up as an
> indicator/reminder. From this moment all calls to my extension should
> immediately be transferred to my voicemail box.
>
> When I return I press the button again, the light goes off and all calls
> to my extension should ring my phone again.
>
> Now, can I achieve this with a static dialplan in extensions.conf or do
> I have to use all that Realtime + DB magic?
>
> Many thanks,
> Norbert
>
>
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>>>>> "NZ" == Norbert Zawodsky
<norbert@zawodsky.at> writes:
NZ> If I leave my desk I press this button. A light should show up as
NZ> an indicator/reminder. From this moment all calls to my extension
NZ> should immediately be transferred to my voicemail box.

NZ> When I return I press the button again, the light goes off and all
NZ> calls to my extension should ring my phone again.

Apart from the light it's very easy to achieve.

12345,1,Set(DB(desk/away)=${IF($["${DB(desk/away)}"="away"]?back:away)}
12345,n,Hangup

(Did I ever mention that I hate dialplan syntax? There's probably a
dozen bracket or quotation errors in the above, and it took 10 minutes
to write just that one line.)

Check in the dial plan when you try to dial the phone whether
DB(desk/away) is away or back, and go to voicemail. Then set your
phone up to dial 12345 when that particular button is pressed.

An alternative is to make an extension which goes to voice mail
directly, and simply redirect the phone to that extension. It's a bit
more than one button, but at least the Snom 360 will show that the
redirection is active. Perhaps the magical function buttons can even
be programmed to do it.


/Benny