asterisk users - Nov 2006 - How to park calls on a specific extension

Currently at our office, if I want someone else to pick up a call, I have 
to transfer the call to them. So I'm looking into call parking, which is 
ALMOST perfect. 

The missing piece of the puzzle: I'm extension 203. I want any call I park 
to get parked at extension 2203. I want a call my boss parks to park at 
2205, since he's ext. 205. In other words, I want calls parked FROM 
extension XYZ to be parked AT extension (XYZ+2000).

I don't see a way to force parked calls to a specific extension. I'm 
probably just missing the answer, but I've googled for it and I can't
find
it.

TIA for any help you can offer.


-- 
Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
Victorville, California     PGP:0xE3AE35ED

It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

At 03:14 PM 11/22/2006, you wrote:
>The missing piece of the puzzle: I'm extension 203. I want any call I
park
>to get parked at extension 2203. I want a call my boss parks to park at
>2205, since he's ext. 205. In other words, I want calls parked FROM
>extension XYZ to be parked AT extension (XYZ+2000).
>
>I don't see a way to force parked calls to a specific extension. I'm
>probably just missing the answer, but I've googled for it and I
can't find
>it.

That doesn't seem to be the way parking was designed.  It's a first 
available distribution of a series of numbers you choose. The problem 
with your plan is that it can't handle a second call on an extension. 
Coming up in V1.4 is something called SLA or shared line appearance 
which might do what you want depending upon how it's implemented. For 
the moment you just need to tell people extension to pick up to 
retrieve a parked call.  Here it's always 701 as we've never yet 
parked 2 calls.

Ira

You need the valet parking module. It's a third pary add-on app.

This is a direct link to the current code
http://www.pbxfreeware.org/app_valetparking.c
Here is a link to the original README
http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/apps/app_valetparking.README

On 11/22/06, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@justthe.net>
wrote:
>
>
> Currently at our office, if I want someone else to pick up a call, I have
> to transfer the call to them. So I'm looking into call parking, which
is
> ALMOST perfect.
>
> The missing piece of the puzzle: I'm extension 203. I want any call I
park
> to get parked at extension 2203. I want a call my boss parks to park at
> 2205, since he's ext. 205. In other words, I want calls parked FROM
> extension XYZ to be parked AT extension (XYZ+2000).
>
> I don't see a way to force parked calls to a specific extension.
I'm
> probably just missing the answer, but I've googled for it and I
can't find
> it.
>
> TIA for any help you can offer.
>
>
> --
> Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl **
> Linux/*BSD/Windows
> Victorville, California     PGP:0xE3AE35ED
>
> It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living
room.
>
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