asterisk users - Apr 2009 - voicemail number of rings

I'd be really happy if users could use the voicemail menu to change the 
number of rings until voicemail picks up.

It seems like the current model of separate Dial and Voicemail commands 
would make that difficult, but is there any plan for such a feature in 
the future?  How about a workaround or 3rd party add on?

I store the dial timeout for each user in a database, so I know I could 
make my own little menu for them to set the number of seconds, but 
people are always a little stupefied by the fact that it's not on the 
voicemail menu.

Here's a hack to implement this "feature"
Create global variable RINGS
Use playback and read to let user enter new number
Set RINGS to entered value
Change dial command(s) to include ${RING}

Here's a snippet from my dialplan that changes the default operator
exten => 644,1(start7),Playback(record/nightopext)
exten => 644,n,NoOp(executando - ${extensao} - )
exten => 644,n,BackGround(beep)
exten => 644,n,Read(digito,,3)
exten => 644,n,Gotoif($[ "${LEN(${digito})}" !=
"3"]?start7)
exten => 644,n,SayDigits(${digito})
exten => 644,n,Set(GLOBAL(NIGHTOP)=${digito})
exten => 644,n,Set(DB(Nightop/ext)=${digito})
exten => 644,n,BackGround(vm-goodbye)
exten => 644,n,Hangup()

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 3:19 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] voicemail number of rings

I'd be really happy if users could use the voicemail menu to change the 
number of rings until voicemail picks up.

It seems like the current model of separate Dial and Voicemail commands 
would make that difficult, but is there any plan for such a feature in 
the future?  How about a workaround or 3rd party add on?

I store the dial timeout for each user in a database, so I know I could 
make my own little menu for them to set the number of seconds, but 
people are always a little stupefied by the fact that it's not on the 
voicemail menu. 

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Adam Moffett schrieb:
> I'd be really happy if users could use the voicemail menu to change the
> number of rings until voicemail picks up.
> 
> It seems like the current model of separate Dial and Voicemail commands 
> would make that difficult, but is there any plan for such a feature in 
> the future?  How about a workaround or 3rd party add on?
> 
> I store the dial timeout for each user in a database, so I know I could 
> make my own little menu for them to set the number of seconds, but 
> people are always a little stupefied by the fact that it's not on the 
> voicemail menu. 
There's my MiniVM by Olle the great.
http://www.asterisk.org/doxygen/trunk/Config_minivm_examples.html
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MiniVM
http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de/2.1/minivm.html


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