BJ Weschke
2006-Sep-22 06:27 UTC
[asterisk-users] Re: [asterisk-dev] To bweschke regarding app FollowMe
On 9/21/06, Denis Galv?o <denisgalvao@gmail.com> wrote:> bweschke, is there any news about using astdb to store the numbers to > be dialed? > > This is related to this note on bug http://bugs.digium.com/ > bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=5574: > > (0035684) > shmaltz - reporter > 11-02-05 15:01 > > Also thinking about it a bit more, it would be very usefull if the > settings in followme.conf would allow for an entry that points to the > astdb, something like this: > number => family/key > number => family/key > This will allow to use the dialplan to update the number values in > followme.conf, like this: > exten => _*5X.,1,Set(DB(FM${EXTEN:2:1}/${CALLERIDNUM})=${EXTEN:3}) > In which case users can call in *51 follwoed the number to follow, > and the DP will add that to FM1, for the second number they would > dial *52 and that would be added to FM2, and so on. In followme.conf > you would then have: > number => FM1/8143 > number => FM2/8143 > and so on. > And if an entry in the astdb is empty app_followme will ignore it. > Maybe I'm pushing it, but this feature (since it can all be done in > the dialplan without this app) might not have value if one can't use > it because s/he can't have her/his users call in to change the number > values in followme.conf. In which case it means not being able to use > this. > >Denis, There was some discussion around this feature in app_followme in the IRC chat rooms and it was decided that for at least the 1.4 release of app_followme, the group wanted to "keep it simple" and not have this feature. We may add this in the future, but I can tell you that I do plan to "realtime" enable the application for the 1.6 cycle which probably gives you more or less the same functionality. BJ -- Bird's The Word Technologies, Inc. http://www.btwtech.com/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev