[asterisk-gui] Unable to set Extension for Voicemail: Solved!!!

[bkruse]

Awesome!

Glad to see everything works!

I know there IS one bug that I will have to get around to looking
into (and you can make a bug report on bugs.digium.com if you'd like)

But it has to do with callerid and voicemail (as richard(bsd_tech)) 
brought up.

If the gui writes an extension, say 7000, for users to call with
their voicemail, the gui writes
exten => 7000,1,Voicemail(${CALLERID(num)}) which should
go to the voicemail box of your phone, but what if you change
the callerid of the user? and its no longer 6000, 6001, its a local
number such as 256-555-7000 or something, then you can no
longer check this.

To combat this for a temporary solution, as russell mentioned, just
change that line with the file editor in the gui, or by hand with a text
editor, and change exten => 7000,1,Voicemail(${CALLERID(num)})
to
exten => 7000,1,Voicemailmain()

Then the user that calls 7000 will be prompted to enter their
extension along with vmsecret, or voice mail password (all digits)

YaY!

This should be the default behavior, my apologies.

Voicemail is still as Mark originally wrote it, with pari fixing bugs, but
it does need some loving to really bring out the wide capabilities
of all its features.

Hope this helps!

-brandon

Pep Talens wrote:
> Hi everyone again,
>
>   I'm pretty much grateful for your consideration. Thank you all. 
>
> Yesterday I send a pair of doubts. Brandon, very kindly, solved the one that 
> towards reference to a wrong correspondence between svn version awaited and 
> obtained. 
>
> The other one has not been solved to me until few minutes ago. The fact was 
> that I couldn't configure out voicemail in Asterisk Gui. Remember I had 
> running Asterisk 1.4.5 and its GUI revision 1124$, compiled separately. When 
> I tried to set an extension  for checking voicemail in the GUI, from 
> Voicemail tab, it added a 'New Entry' in the list of users but without number 
> of extension. I tried to configure it from the Setup Wizard too but with no 
> results. Same thing with conferencing bridges. And the sense of the gui is 
> not to do it by modifying voicemail.conf. But this did not even work. It was 
> quite annoying. I tried different revisions of the gui but problems were the 
> same. I looked for solutions in forums, and despite I founded the problem, 
> never the solution. As the gui is in constant evolution, the documentation is 
> very scanty (thanks to Anil Madikonda:  
> www.madikonda.com/downloads/asterisknow.pdf).
>
> SOLUTION:
> Yesterday after posting I decided to uninstall 1.4.5 and upgrade to 1.4.6. 
> After that I have installed the gui revision 1223. I just tried it and it 
> seems that works fine. I have set Voicemail and I am anxious for trying it.  
> Tell you more. 
>
> Thanks.
>
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