Robert Jackson
2004-Oct-07 12:42 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that are ringingonother extensions?
> -----Original Message----- > From: James Freire [mailto:JFreire@Comtech21.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:16 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that > are ringingonother extensions? > > > Well I dont want it to operate as a group. I understand that > it is *8 on most PBX systems but I would like it to work as > dialing *8+extension-thats-ringing to have it go over to my > extension. I am having a lot of trouble finding more > information from the wiki and google. >In asterisk extensions and channels are completely separate. A channel causes a phone to ring, not the extension. This makes very good sense if you think about a single channel ringing multiple devices. I guess you have a few options. * Create a perl script using res_perl in your dialplan to connect your extension with a call that is destined for the extension you enter. I would assume that the script would be called like so... exten => _*8XXXX,1,Perl(pickupscript:${EXTEN:2}) * Figure out how best to handle it, and write a patch. * Use the existing functionality untill someone else creates a patch. There are probably more ways, but these are the ones I thought of. Good luck, Robert Jackson