[asterisk-dev] Is this a "bug" or a feature?

[Klaus Darilion]

Alan Lord (News) schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I apologise in advance for jumping in on the dev list but it seems as 
> though ${EXTEN} is not being updated if the final leg of a call comes 
> from within the dialplan (i.e. not user entered digits). The 
> "Destination" record continues to read "s" even though a call is 
> connected to a physical extension such as SIP/101. The "Destination 
> channel" is correct but there is no, apparently simple way to get just 
> the extension number of the b-leg of the call.
> 
> See this thread on asterisk-user I started a couple of days ago.
> 
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2009-July/234925.html

That's probably not what you want to hear - but I always use custom-cdrs 
and specify some variables which should be logged. Then, during dialplan 
logic I fill those variables explicitly. Thus, in the CDRs I always have 
the values which I want to have - not the ones which Asterisk thinks it 
should put in. Probably everybody wants to have the CDRs a little bit 
different, that's why there is the custom CDR engine.

regards
klaus