asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Pickup Button

Our current telephone system supports a function called pickup, where a
user can press the pickup button dial an extension and take a call that
was meant for that extension.  (a teacher calls the principal however he
/she is not in so the secretary presses the pickup button dials his
extension and it routes the call to her phone)  How can i do this with
programming? Also we will be using all Cisco 7940 phones, their is an
extra button on the display can that be set to be a function? Such as
pickup?

Thank You

Johnathan Falk
Network Administrator
Clinton Community Schools

Use callgroups, pickupgroups, and a programmed speeddial programmed to
the pickupexten in features.conf for the button.

On 1/16/06, John Falk <jdfalk@internet2.edu>
wrote:
> Our current telephone system supports a function called pickup, where a
> user can press the pickup button dial an extension and take a call that
> was meant for that extension.  (a teacher calls the principal however he
> /she is not in so the secretary presses the pickup button dials his
> extension and it routes the call to her phone)  How can i do this with
> programming? Also we will be using all Cisco 7940 phones, their is an
> extra button on the display can that be set to be a function? Such as
> pickup?
>
> Thank You
>
> Johnathan Falk
> Network Administrator
> Clinton Community Schools
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On Monday, January 16, 2006 11:32 PM C F wrote: 
> Use callgroups, pickupgroups, and a programmed speeddial programmed
> to the pickupexten in features.conf for the button. 

Or use Pickup() (or Dpickup if you are using bristuff):

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

Then you will not need callgroups.

Regards,
  JP