[asterisk-dev] CDR questions

[Loic DIDELOT]

I think you are wrong. Here is the behaviour I notice and I expect and
it works like this with a few minor exceptions.

After a forkcdr a new cdr is started and all new manual modifications to
the cdr (userfield, accountcode, cli) are/should only applied to the new
cdr. lastdata lastapp should be applied to the new cdr as well and must
not be applied to the old one. So lastapp for the old cdr is "ForkCDR".

The only thing which remains to the old cdr are billsec and duration.
They must be applied to both.

Here is how we use it. We get an incoming call. Through our database we
know that the user has setup a redirection (webinterface). We dial the
user but he is offline. Ok, now we need to send this call to one of our
carriers to the number the user setup in our db. Before we send the call
to the Carrier we do a forkcdr so that we get a new line. So the old cdr
represente the incoming call, the new cdr represents the outgoing call.
The incoming call is later not rated/billed but the outgoing is. Well
there are plenty of variables set after the fokcdr but basically this is
how we use it.

Best regards,
Loic Didelot.

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 13:34 -0700, Steve Murphy wrote:
> I shake my head over CDR's. Either something needs fixing, or I just
> plain am not understanding things correctly.
> 
> For instance, take the app ForkCDR(). I see exactly what it does, and I
> wonder what it's good for. 
> 
> It duplicates the current CDR on the channel, and links it into the cdr
> chain. Most apps that would apply to a cdr (like setCID funcs) apply to
> all the CDRs.
> The two CDRs are almost exact duplicates of each other. Operations you
> would hope only apply to the new CDR end up applying to both the new and
> old.
> 
> So, now you get two CDR's. Whoopee. They both start at the same time,
> etc. How exciting.
> 
> Now, it would seem more useful to me to End, and Post the current cdr,
> and then, create a new CDR in its place with a new start time, and carry
> over any vars, etc, that may have been associated with the previous CDR.
> It might be real nice if the two cdrs had the exact same uniqueID, and
> all the other stuff like userfield, etc. were the same.
> 
> Am I wrong? Is there some magic here I'm missing?
> 
> 
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