[asterisk-gui] Opinion, what do you want in the gui for users?

QUICK, RANDY RQUICK at THCS.ORG
Thu Apr 12 13:22:01 MST 2007 

Hey guys,

Some important features for my 12 prospective facility installs would include:

 - Time of day routing for both voice menus and user phones. (Pari already stated this was coming)
 - Options to reroute phones to other numbers or phones.  (If extension 101 is busy it reroutes to 102, if 102 doesn't answer it reroutes to vmail)
 - Some type of CDR reporting.  (Similar to FreePBX's reporting app)

Off the deep end- 

 - I plan to install some SIP enabled POE over head paging speakers so a tab for assigning a "page group" would be nice.
 - Real-time ACD Agent monitoring with ACD reporting.

WAY OFF THE DEEP END-

 - I will be running a real server at my main location with multiple PRI's that will then transfer the calls to the appropriate appliance across our LAN/WAN.  It would be GREAT if we could write some code for Asterisk NOW so that it could be that gateway server and monitor the asterisk appliances (ping speed and SD memory usage) and email alerts if it gets an out of tolerance reading from any of the appliances.  

Also would be great if it could sync with a complete copy of all the phone directories so that you could have a full copy of your phone numbers for a dial by name setup or to move it into an XML app so that all of your phones could access it for number lookups within your organization.

The cherry on top would be the capacity to easily schedule backups to be sent from each appliance to that server so that at the end of the week I could rsync that folder onto my SAN for disaster recovery.  

Before I get flamed I would gladly be writing this code if I had the skills and am currently learning, but I thought that if Pari's going to ask I might as well let loose.

Thanks guys for all the great work!  I love this stuff!

Randy Quick
Telecommunications Technician II
Healthcare Systems


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Pari
Nannapaneni
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:43 AM
To: Asterisk GUI project discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Opinion, what do you want in the gui for
users?


Paul Castagna wrote:
 > What is the current state of the GUI look like in terms of user interface
 > and features?

Here are some features of the asterisk-gui

[*] The Easiest Setup Wizard ever for Asterisk
[*] Add/Delete/Edit  SIP/IAX/Analog Users(Extensions)
[*] IVR menus
[*] Manage Conference Rooms
[*] Manage Analog & VOIP (SIP/IAX) trunks
[*] Manage Calling Rules - Dial Plans
[*] Manage Incoming Calling Rules (DIDs)
[*] Basic Call Monitoring (kind of) - Hangup/Transfer/monitor calls/channels
[*] Backup and restore configs
[*] Manage MOH(Music on hold) classes
[*] Record custom Voicemenus
[*] A File Editor - you need this no matter how advanced an asterisk GUI is,
     it's like trying to write a GUI for sendmail
[*] Manage global SIP/IAX settings
[*] Access to asterisk Log messages
[***] Call Queues is partially done and pending since a while (needs some focus)

Couple of important features like CDR, Call Forwarding, Ring-all etc are missing
but the gui is being actively developed and new features are being added every day.
and we are happy to see people getting involved and contributing to the project (thank you all guys).

you can download the latest code from
svn co http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/trunk

regards,
Pari


Paul Castagna wrote:
> What is the current state of the GUI look like in terms of user interface
> and features? We are currently using a GUI for asterisk but the programmer
> ran out on us.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pari Nannapaneni
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: Asterisk GUI project discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Opinion, what do you want in the gui for users?
> 
> People have been asking for multi language support since forever.
> I'll try to work on this today.
> 
> One way is to add a whole lot of
> <SPAN> elements and update them with js variables on page load.
> but I saw some cool JavaScript Templating libraries last week,
> http://mjtemplate.org/
> http://ballz.ababa.net/raid_ox/#home
> 
> regards,
> -Pari
> 
> 
> 
> Facundo Ameal wrote:
>> Brandon, it would be and excelent feature. Apart from that it 'd make
>> the GUI more extensible and flexible.
>>
>> On 4/12/07, Alexandre Moutinho Santos
>> <alex.moutinho at alexandre-santos.com> wrote:
>>> Is there already an idea of how the multi language feature will be
>>> implemented? A text file for each language? A function on each html file
>>> with arrays, something like $advanced = array ( en => "Advanced", pt =>
>>> "Avançado")?
>>>
>>> Brandon Kruse escreveu:
>>>> I agree, great to see the community getting involved.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, I have my work cut out for me (especially pari)
>>>>
>>>> *goes to get redbull and cranks techno music, again*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Facundo Ameal wrote:
>>>>> I agree with the file editor.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/11/07, Alexandre Moutinho Santos
>>>>> <alex.moutinho at alexandre-santos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>> In my opinion, the file editor is a better solution because it 
>>> gives us
>>>>>> admins the possibility of changing or adding whatever we want. I'm 
>>> very
>>>>>> used to text files because I'm a Linux admin but the windows users or
>>>>>> admins will want a GUI with everything on it.
>>>>>> I'm installing PBX's connected to a SIP VoIP provider only with the
>>>>>> basic menu options. Since the availability of the advanced options 
>>> for
>>>>>> the providers that I don't need to go to the linux console. Of course
>>>>>> that if I want a XPTO installation with several servers 
>>> interconnected,
>>>>>> redundancy, Mysql, etc, there is the necessity to go to the console.
>>>>>> But
>>>>>> an expert is also needed in this situation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pari Nannapaneni escreveu:
>>>>>>>> I think that you might me right, but sometimes it's faster and
>>>>>> easier
>>>>>>>> for us to change options from a web interface and not ssh and
>>>>>> use vim.
>>>>>>>> The GUI already has and "Advanced Mode", so it would be good to
>>>>>>>> implement advance options in the advanced mode.
>>>>>>> The file editor was added to the  advanced menu for the
>>>>>>> same reason, i don't know how far that would be helpful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Pari
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Facundo Ameal wrote:
>>>>>>>> I think that you might me right, but sometimes it's faster and
>>>>>> easier
>>>>>>>> for us to change options from a web interface and not ssh and use
>>>>>> vim.
>>>>>>>> The GUI already has and "Advanced Mode", so it would be good to
>>>>>>>> implement advance options in the advanced mode. Besides that, 
>>> NAT is
>>>>>>>> not a complicated feature, don't you agree?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/11/07, santosam at alexandre-santos.com
>>>>>>>> <santosam at alexandre-santos.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I've been configuring routers and other embedded system from some
>>>>>>>>> time now
>>>>>>>>> and thinking how things are already done in those cases, here 
>>> is my
>>>>>>>>> opinion: I think that only the options that are more frequently
>>>>>> used
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> more widelly known to the general user should go to the gui. I
>>>>>> think
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> giving to much options to the normal user / newbie is a pandora
>>>>>> box.
>>>>>>>>> Let
>>>>>>>>> me warn you guys that i'm on here also as a professional :-) and
>>>>>> those
>>>>>>>>> more tricky options should be left for the guys that know how to
>>>>>> ssh
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> sudo and use vim :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I want to know your opinion on what features and options
>>>>>>>>>> do you want to have availible (SIP/IAX/ZAP) to be able to check
>>>>>>>>>> mark or change from the gui.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> For example, having nat=yes and a qualify for your NAT on one
>>>>>>>>>> side of the asterisk box or anything like that.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> OR having the codecs allow and disallow for what you want on 
>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> specific user.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Give me some ideas! whats important, whats not, how do you
>>>>>> want the
>>>>>>>>>> options
>>>>>>>>>> arranged if you did it.
>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________

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