asterisk users - Oct 2004 - Dialplan to Pick up calls that are ringing on other extensions?

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:42 -0400, James Freire wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a qestion that I am sure is not too out there. I would like to
> setup my phones so that if I have an extension that is rining I can
> call that extension thats ringing from another phone and have it
> connect to the phone that I am on. This would help if someone is not
> picking up their phone and I cant get to that phone to pick it up.
> Anybody encounter a dialplan that would do this?
> 
> Is there any type of signal that shows a phone is ringing so when I do
> try to make up this litle plan it knows the difference between ringing
> and a busy extension?
Lookup pickupgroup in the Wiki, google, or the config files. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

Hi All,

I have a qestion that I am sure is not too out there. I would like to setup my
phones so that if I have an extension that is rining I can call that extension
thats ringing from another phone and have it connect to the phone that I am on.
This would help if someone is not picking up their phone and I cant get to that
phone to pick it up.
Anybody encounter a dialplan that would do this?

Is there any type of signal that shows a phone is ringing so when I do try to
make up this litle plan it knows the difference between ringing and a busy
extension?

Thanks a lot

-James

> if I have an extension that is rining I can call that extension thats
ringing
> from another phone and have it connect to the phone that I am on. 
Dialing *8 will pick up a ringing extension in the same pickupgroup as
the phone you are at if configured in zapata.conf