[asterisk-gui] Feature question/suggestion

[Shem Valentine]

How I hate replying to my own posts.  I just flipped through the code,
and it looks like it adds the extension to [default] in
extensions.conf.  I didn't realize this.  Solely to suite my own
purposes I am going to propose this.  It's up to you to decide if it
should be included.

When I configure asterisk I try to only use numeric extensions when
configuring calling plans and dids.  As stated earlier I believe in
meaningful contexts, etc.

Perhaps Calling Plans could have an "Extension" field, which would be
numeric and the Queue field could a meaningful alphanumeric variable. 
So let's say the Extension field is 700 and the Queue field is Sales.
The extensions.conf could look like this:

[default]
exten => 700,1,Goto(queues,Sales,1)

[queues]
exten => sales,1,Queue(Sales)

While this seems like double work it gives the user the ability to
easily create a custom dialplan for that specific extension.  I think
this would also give future asterisk-gui versions the ability to have a
Dialplan section as well.

If you don't like the double work idea above a simple solution could be
like:

[default]
exten => 700,1,Queue(Sales)

Perhaps this is just the ramblings of a madman, but I think it has some
merit.
Thanks again,
-Shem Valentine



Shem Valentine wrote:
> Perhaps I'm the only one that sets up queues.conf with meaningful words,
> but I would be very surprised.  O'reilly even seems to encourage it.
>
> Pari Nannapaneni wrote:
>   
>>>  Could you possibly add alphanumeric to Call Queues -> Queue: as well?
>>>       
>> if you are talking about 'Call Queues -> Queue' which is an extension
>> just like any other user extension it is numeric field.
>>
>> Did you mean something else ?
>>
>> - pari
>>
>>
>>
>> Shem Valentine wrote:
>>     
>>> Hey Pari,
>>>
>>> Sorry to be hitting this list so often.  The three digit extensions
>>>
>>>       
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