asterisk users - Apr 2004 - application Directory (Modified by Ryan Thrash)

Sent 12 hours ago and it never showed up (slightly reworded here). 
Sorry if this is a duplicate:

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Scenario: a person selects an Auto Attendant option that fires off the 
Directory application (CVS circa 3/22). Three questions:

1) How do they escape if they didn't mean to go there in the first 
place (without having to hang up...)? Config of entry into the vertex 
directory below:

	exten => 1,1,Directory(vertex)
	exten => 1,2,Goto(s,200)

2) Why is there a five second pause before the directory instructions 
start?

3) Why no option for first name (without recording your own custom 
message and reversing names in voicemail.conf)?

Thanks,
Ryan

On Thursday 08 April 2004 22:41, Ryan Thrash wrote:
> Scenario: a person selects an Auto Attendant option that fires off
> the Directory application (CVS circa 3/22). Three questions:
>
> 1) How do they escape if they didn't mean to go there in the first
> place (without having to hang up...)? Config of entry into the
> vertex directory below:
>
> 	exten => 1,1,Directory(vertex)
> 	exten => 1,2,Goto(s,200)
If you just wait, Directory will exit if there is no entry.
> 2) Why is there a five second pause before the directory
> instructions start?
Probably because you have another extension that begins with 1.
Since Asterisk has no other way to know if the extension is complete,
it waits DigitTimeout seconds (defaults to 5).
> 3) Why no option for first name (without recording your own custom
> message and reversing names in voicemail.conf)?
Just wasn't written that way.  You're welcome to submit a patch to add
first name matching on the bugtracker (bugs.digium.com).

-Tilghman