Hi all, I'm trying to get a better understanding of the 'Hint' priority for use with Snom phones, etc.>From the Wiki, I understand that the following will work:exten => 200,hint,sip/200 exten => 200,1,Dial(sip/200) exten => 201,hint,sip/300 exten => 201,1,Dial(sip/201) When exactly is 'Hint' executed? After someone dials '200' or '201'? Or does the 'hint' priority apply it's magic at dialplan load time? Suppose I want to dial multiple extensions at once: exten => 999,1,Dial(sip/200&sip/201) .. can hint work in this case? If so, would I simply pass multiple channels to hint? ie: exten => 999,hint,sip/200&sip/201 exten => 999,1,Dial(sip/200&sip/201) ? Thanks in advance, Confused
Follow up ... On Sun, 2005-06-02 at 15:45 -0700, Ryan Courtnage wrote:> I'm trying to get a better understanding of the 'Hint' priority for use > with Snom phones, etc. > > >From the Wiki, I understand that the following will work: > > exten => 200,hint,sip/200 > exten => 200,1,Dial(sip/200) > exten => 201,hint,sip/300 > exten => 201,1,Dial(sip/201) > > When exactly is 'Hint' executed? After someone dials '200' or '201'? > Or does the 'hint' priority apply it's magic at dialplan load time? > > Suppose I want to dial multiple extensions at once: > > exten => 999,1,Dial(sip/200&sip/201) > > .. can hint work in this case? If so, would I simply pass multiple > channels to hint? ie:I found a small comment on the wiki that suggested that the "ExtensionState" manager command can be used to get the state of an extension _only_if_ "hint" is used for that extension. Using this, I was able to do some tests and verify that "hint" will work even when using ring groups (as in above example). Ryan