asterisk users - Sep 2005 - blindxfer & atxfer not working?

I'm wondering whether there's a problem with the blindxfer and atxfer
commands.

I was using Asterisk STABLE and pressing the # key to transfer calls
worked fine, except of course when you called up FedEx and they asked
"Enter the number of packages, followed by the Pound key".

I found on the wiki
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+config+features.conf)
that updates had been made to address this very problem, so I went to
CVS HEAD and updated features.conf:

[featuremap]
blindxfer => *1                ; Blind transfer
disconnect => *0               ; Disconnect
atxfer => *2                   ; Attended transfer

Now, when a call comes in, I can press *1 and I hear "Transfer", at
which point I enter an extension and the call goes there.  However if
_I_ initiate the call, *1 does nothing - I cannot transfer the call.
Same story for attended transfer (*2).

It doesn't make any difference whether I place the call on a SIP or ZAP
channel.

Is this a bug?  If not, what's the secret to transferring outgoing
calls that I initiate?

BTW, I have calltransfer=yes on ALL my ZAP channels and I'm using t in
my Dial commands (I noticed that using T doesn't help ? the called
party can't transfer the call either).

Thanks,
Hugh

double-check your usage of the t and T parameters to the Dial command, 
detailed here:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+Dial

Mojo

hugolivude wrote:
> I'm wondering whether there's a problem with the blindxfer and
atxfer commands.
> 
> I was using Asterisk STABLE and pressing the # key to transfer calls
> worked fine, except of course when you called up FedEx and they asked
> "Enter the number of packages, followed by the Pound key".
> 
> I found on the wiki
>
(http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+config+features.conf)
> that updates had been made to address this very problem, so I went to
> CVS HEAD and updated features.conf:
> 
> [featuremap]
> blindxfer => *1                ; Blind transfer
> disconnect => *0               ; Disconnect
> atxfer => *2                   ; Attended transfer
> 
> Now, when a call comes in, I can press *1 and I hear "Transfer",
at
> which point I enter an extension and the call goes there.  However if
> _I_ initiate the call, *1 does nothing - I cannot transfer the call.
> Same story for attended transfer (*2).
> 
> It doesn't make any difference whether I place the call on a SIP or ZAP
channel.
> 
> Is this a bug?  If not, what's the secret to transferring outgoing
> calls that I initiate?
> 
> BTW, I have calltransfer=yes on ALL my ZAP channels and I'm using t in
> my Dial commands (I noticed that using T doesn't help ? the called
> party can't transfer the call either).
> 
> Thanks,
> Hugh
> 
> 
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