asterisk users - Aug 2003 - 0 out of voicemail to different secretaries

Is it possible to configure * so that if a caller reaches voicemail for 
someone in Engineering, but doesn't want to leave a message they can 
press zero (0) and reach the Engineering Secretary or if they are 
calling someone in Accounting and reach voicemail, pressing '0' would 
reach the Accounting secretary, not the Engineering secretary?

Don Pobanz

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000156

patients grass hopper!

bkw

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Don Pobanz wrote:
> Is it possible to configure * so that if a caller reaches voicemail for
> someone in Engineering, but doesn't want to leave a message they can
> press zero (0) and reach the Engineering Secretary or if they are
> calling someone in Accounting and reach voicemail, pressing '0'
would
> reach the Accounting secretary, not the Engineering secretary?
>
> Don Pobanz
>
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On Monday, August 25, 2003 4:55 PM, Brad Bergman 
[SMTP:bradley@bergman.ca] wrote:
> I certainly contemplated that very thing... but somehow it escaped
> implementation.
>
> Even as things are now, the PBX administrator can set something like
> this up
> by putting engineering, accounting, etc in different contexts, and
> setting
> different "o" extensions for them.
This does not appear to be an alternative since a channel is assigned a 
context before the call is made, not after the number is dialed so the 
dialed number does not establish the context. So putting phones (or 
channels) in different contexts would only help if the context can be 
changed during a call.
>
> I was thinking of a couple of relevant features, one giving the
> individual
> mailbox user the ability to store a different extension (i.e., the
> target
> attendant) in the database that would override the "o" extension
in
> the
> dialplan when a caller presses '0'. The other is to allow another
> number(s)
> to be stored in the DB so that a caller could press, say, 4, 5, or 6,
> and be
> transferred to whatever number the mailbox owner has stored there. Of
> course,
> all of this subject to whatever restrictions are imposed on the use 
of
> these
> features.
>
> I will look into this.
I hope your schedule and motivation leads you to look into this further 
as it will be important for us. We will be converting fully to * as 
soon as we can satisfy internal users that * can handle our 
requirements.

Please let me know if I can help with testing.

Don Pobanz
>
> Cheers,
> Brad
>
>
> On Mon 25 Aug 2003 14:25, Brian West wrote:
> > http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000156
> >
> > patients grass hopper!
> >
> > bkw
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Don Pobanz wrote:
> > > Is it possible to configure * so that if a caller reaches
> > > voicemail for
> > > someone in Engineering, but doesn't want to leave a message
they
> > > can
> > > press zero (0) and reach the Engineering Secretary or if they are
> > > calling someone in Accounting and reach voicemail, pressing
'0'
> > > would
> > > reach the Accounting secretary, not the Engineering secretary?
> > >
> > > Don Pobanz