[asterisk-gui] GUI Dial Plan - outgoing via multiple possible lines (roll-over)

[Richard Neese]

the w means wait


On Wednesday 11 July 2007 01:47:03 pm bkruse wrote:
> No it does not, what if he wants to match only 9 followed by 4
> digits, and stop.
>
> Because he is dialing to a traditional pbx, afterall, and this will
> directly match 9 followed by 4 digits promptly and not wait.
>
> Also, why do you have a w before ${EXTEN:0} ?
>
> Richard Neese wrote:
> > 9XXXX! needs to be 9X.
> >
> > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 08:08:29 am Sam Snow wrote:
> >> I have been trialling Asterisk hooked up to our regular PBX via three
> >> FXO modules in a TDM400P card. I just upgraded to 1.4.7.1 and did a svn
> >> update and recompile earlier today for the GUI. For the most part things
> >> are working just as expected. The software is great!
> >>
> >> Using the GUI I have set up incoming rules so that when the regular PBX
> >> calls the TDM400P line it rings a certain extension, which is the
> >> exactly what I want it to do.
> >> I am however, having one fundamental problem with how the dial plans are
> >> getting created and how the outgoing analog lines seem to be hard coded
> >> for outgoing calls:
> >>
> >> For example, here is the default configuration (trimmed for clarity):
> >>
> >> extensions.conf :
> >> trunk_1 = Zap/g1
> >> trunk_2 = Zap/g2
> >> trunk_3 = Zap/g3
> >>
> >> [numberplan-custom-2]
> >> include = default
> >> plancomment = DialPlan2
> >> exten = _9XXXX!,1,Macro(trunkdial,${trunk_1}/w${EXTEN:0})
> >> comment = _9XXXX!,1,outside,standard
> >>
> >>
> >> What I would like is that if someone is using this dialplan and trunk_1
> >> is busy that they are allowed to dial out on trunk_2 or trunk_3. There
> >> seem to be several ways that this could be done:
> >>
> >> 1. Groups
> >> 2. Multiple stacked dial statements
> >> 3. ChanIsAvail
> >>
> >> REF:
> >>
> >> http://www.planetwayne.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=293&sid=4326931f96aa17
> >>c45 1880729d5f5e5c5
> >> http://readlist.com/lists/lists.digium.com/asterisk-users/4/23788.html
> >>
> >> http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?p=36735&sid=e287700c6f708d0694946
> >>5d3 729541e5
> >>
> >> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-September/014173.h
> >>tml
> >>
> >> None of these options seem to be available via the GUI. Am I missing
> >> something?
> >> I tried several options via manual editing of the extensions.conf file
> >> and decided that ChanIsAvail was the easiest to implement the way things
> >> are currently set up. Groups might be easier, but I could not get them
> >> to work.
> >>
> >> Here is what my dialplan became:
> >> [numberplan-custom-2]
> >> include = default
> >> plancomment = DialPlan2
> >> ; See if line 2 is available. If not, try line 1.
> >> exten = _9XXXX!,1,ChanIsAvail(Zap/2&Zap/3&Zap/4)
> >> exten = _9XXXX!,2,Macro(trunkdial,${CUT(AVAILCHAN||1)}//w${EXTEN:0})
> >> comment = _9XXXX!,1,outside,standard
> >>
> >> The software now checks to see if ZAP/2 is available and uses it. If it
> >> is tied up it tries Zap3 and 4 before giving up.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I doing it the correct way? Would
> >> this be something that would be realistic to add to the GUI so that is
> >> can be handled there? I took a look at
> >> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/trunk/todo.txt and did not see
> >> any mention of adding this functionality.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sam
> >>
> >>
> >>
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