Hi, Our current PBX (Panasonic) has a setting that enables users to "snatch" calls ringing at other extensions. I'm not sure snatching is a correct term for this so let me elaborate. Let's say you sit in a room with five other people. Each one has it's own extension. One person goes out. As soon as he leaves the room his phone starts ringing. The other guys in the room want to answer his phone for him and take a message, but they won't get up for it.... I just pick up our extension, hit *40, and the call is automatically transferred to my extension. Is this doable with Asterisk? Is it possible to divide extensions into groups - like a group per room - so I won't snatch a call from another room in the building, that I wasn't even aware was ringing... Cheers. Shoval -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20031104/2f3c4d93/attachment.htm
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:28, Shoval Tomer wrote:> Hi, > > Our current PBX (Panasonic) has a setting that enables users to > "snatch" calls ringing at other extensions. > > > > I'm not sure snatching is a correct term for this so let me elaborate. > > Let's say you sit in a room with five other people. Each one has it's > own extension. One person goes out. As soon as he leaves the room his > phone starts ringing. > > The other guys in the room want to answer his phone for him and take a > message, but they won't get up for it?. > > I just pick up our extension, hit *40, and the call is automatically > transferred to my extension. > > Is this doable with Asterisk? > > Is it possible to divide extensions into groups ? like a group per > room ? so I won't snatch a call from another room in the building, > that I wasn't even aware was ringing?You want to look into call groups and pickup groups. To pickup the call you use *8#. from /usr/src/asterisk/configs/zapata.conf.sample ; ; Ring groups (a.k.a. call groups) and pickup groups. If a phone is ringing ; and it is a member of a group which is one of your pickup groups, then ; you can answer it by picking up and dialing *8#. For simple offices, just ; make these both the same ; callgroup=1 pickupgroup=1 -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
Steven,> You want to look into call groups and pickup groups. To pickup the call > you use *8#. > > from /usr/src/asterisk/configs/zapata.conf.sample > > ; > ; Ring groups (a.k.a. call groups) and pickup groups. If a phone is ringing > ; and it is a member of a group which is one of your pickup groups, then > ; you can answer it by picking up and dialing *8#. For simple offices, just > ; make these both the same > ; > callgroup=1 > pickupgroup=1Should the same work for ringing sip phones as well?