asterisk users - May 2005 - Setting variable for a context for all extensions?

Hi,

Is it possible to set a variable for a context for all extensions?  I 
haven't been able to find it.  I want something like this in 
extensions.conf:

[from-iaxfwd]
exten => .,1,RING=r3
exten => 123456,1,Goto(from-pstn,s,1)

[from-internal]
exten => .,1,RING=r2
include => ext-local

[ext-local]
exten => 1,1,Dial(Zap/1,${LONGTIMEOUT})
exten => 2,1,Dial(SIP/2,${LONGTIMEOUT})

But how do I do this?  I want to change the ring depending on the 
starting context.  The above doesn't work.

Kind regards,

Mark

Not entirely sure, but, I wonder what would happen if you define RING  
in the [globals] section first, and the use SetVar or SetGlobalVar in  
the other contexts to override its value.

- Daniel

On May 8, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to set a variable for a context for all extensions?   
> I haven't been able to find it.  I want something like this in  
> extensions.conf:
>
> [from-iaxfwd]
> exten => .,1,RING=r3
> exten => 123456,1,Goto(from-pstn,s,1)
>
> [from-internal]
> exten => .,1,RING=r2
> include => ext-local
>
> [ext-local]
> exten => 1,1,Dial(Zap/1,${LONGTIMEOUT})
> exten => 2,1,Dial(SIP/2,${LONGTIMEOUT})
>
> But how do I do this?  I want to change the ring depending on the  
> starting context.  The above doesn't work.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mark
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have you tried setting the variable at the begining of the context?

[contextname]
varname=value


On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 08:48 +0200, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to set a variable for a context for all extensions?  I 
> haven't been able to find it.  I want something like this in 
> extensions.conf:
> 
> [from-iaxfwd]
> exten => .,1,RING=r3
> exten => 123456,1,Goto(from-pstn,s,1)
> 
> [from-internal]
> exten => .,1,RING=r2
> include => ext-local
> 
> [ext-local]
> exten => 1,1,Dial(Zap/1,${LONGTIMEOUT})
> exten => 2,1,Dial(SIP/2,${LONGTIMEOUT})
> 
> But how do I do this?  I want to change the ring depending on the 
> starting context.  The above doesn't work.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
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Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to set a variable for a context for all extensions?  I 
> haven't been able to find it.  
Try looking up the application "SetVar":

demo*CLI> show application SetVar
demo*CLI>
   -= Info about application 'SetVar' =-

[Synopsis]:
Set variable to value

[Description]:
   Setvar(#n=value): Sets channel specific variable n to value

Flynn

In article <427DB623.5050801@wormgoor.com>,
Mark Wormgoor <mark@wormgoor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to set a variable for a context for all extensions?  I 
> haven't been able to find it.  I want something like this in 
> extensions.conf:
> 
> [from-iaxfwd]
> exten => .,1,RING=r3
> exten => 123456,1,Goto(from-pstn,s,1)
In the above example, you have both lines on priority 1. You've also
forgotten the "_" to signify a pattern. Also, "_." would
match the
special extensions like i, h and t. Try the following:

[from-iaxfwd]
exten => _X.,1,RING=r3
exten => 123456,2,Goto(from-pstn,s,1)

Then when a call to 123456 comes in, the first line will match (123456,1)
and after executing it, Asterisk will be looking for (123456,2), which
will match the second line.
> [from-internal]
> exten => .,1,RING=r2
> include => ext-local
> 
> [ext-local]
> exten => 1,1,Dial(Zap/1,${LONGTIMEOUT})
> exten => 2,1,Dial(SIP/2,${LONGTIMEOUT})
I'm not sure whather you can use include, but you could certainly do
something like this. If you want to handle both single-digit and
multi-digit extensions, you have to do them separately, because "."
matches a minimum of one character:

[from-internal]
exten => _X,1,RING=r2
exten => _X,2,Goto(ext-local,${EXTEN},1)
exten => _X.,1,RING=r2
exten => _X.,2,Goto(ext-local,${EXTEN},1)

[ext-local]
exten => 1,1,Dial(Zap/1,${LONGTIMEOUT})
exten => 2,1,Dial(SIP/2,${LONGTIMEOUT})

Hope this helps (and works!)

Cheers
Tony
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