asterisk users - Oct 2003 - "context confusion" internal context 2 context only?

I'm trying to create several contexts for extentions with
different levels of access to features and I'm wondering
how the heck do I include all the contexts so that you
can call internal to any extention in another context without
giving the features of the higher level context to the lower
level context?
ie.....

[admin]
include => local
include => longdistance
include => international
include => services
exten => 104,1,Dial(Zap/20|20)
exten => 105 106 107......
etc....

[sales]
include => local
include => longdistance
exten => 201,1,Dial(Zap/5|20)
exten => 202 203 204 .....
etc....

[lobby]
include => local
exten => 303,1,Dial(Zap/10|20)
exten => 304 305 .......
etc....

Extentions in lobby should be able to directly
call extentions in either admin or sales.
Using an include in local then gives lobby access to
ld,int.,services, etc.

Includes are recursive

Make a context with just all the internal extensions, and then make
contexts for all the outbound calls and another group of contexts just
as you are doing (admin, sales, etc)

Then

[admin]
include => international
include => extensions

[sales]
include => longdistance
include => extensions

[international]
include=> longdistance
exten => _9011.,1,Dial....
...

[longdistance]
include => local
exten => _91NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial...
...

[local]
exten => _NXXXXXX,1,Dial....
...

[extensions]
exten => 301,1,Dial...
...

So as to create two sets of contexts, one with actual dial strings and
another which includes your first set, based on what access you want
users to have, you place the users in the second set.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ken Godee
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:08 AM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] "context confusion" internal context 2
context
> only?
> 
> I'm trying to create several contexts for extentions with
> different levels of access to features and I'm wondering
> how the heck do I include all the contexts so that you
> can call internal to any extention in another context without
> giving the features of the higher level context to the lower
> level context?
> ie.....
> 
> [admin]
> include => local
> include => longdistance
> include => international
> include => services
> exten => 104,1,Dial(Zap/20|20)
> exten => 105 106 107......
> etc....
> 
> [sales]
> include => local
> include => longdistance
> exten => 201,1,Dial(Zap/5|20)
> exten => 202 203 204 .....
> etc....
> 
> [lobby]
> include => local
> exten => 303,1,Dial(Zap/10|20)
> exten => 304 305 .......
> etc....
> 
> Extentions in lobby should be able to directly
> call extentions in either admin or sales.
> Using an include in local then gives lobby access to
> ld,int.,services, etc.
> 
> 
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Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> Includes are recursive
> 
> Make a context with just all the internal extensions, and then make
> contexts for all the outbound calls and another group of contexts just
> as you are doing (admin, sales, etc)
> 
Thank you, Just the answer I was looking for!
Ken