[asterisk-gui] Paging/intercom

[Ron Byer Jr.]

The next time I post a query on this list, I will be sure to download the
latest/greatest version and check it out first. 

 

I posted a note about paging and intercom support a few days ago :: I've
been using an *early* asterisk-gui 2.0 version from, I'd say, 2 months ago .

 

When I received the note back from Pari saying he had made a change, I
updated and took a look - and found a whole panel dedicated to
paging/intercom. At that point I felt a bit like a horse's hindquarters.
Thanks guys,  I should have RTFC'ed before bothering the list.  

 

That being said. I have another (hopefully better informed) question.  I
have it working fine now, using the paging/intercom panel. I had to make one
change to the standard macro being generated. I recognize that I could make
the change in the java script that generates the standard macro ,but wonder
if it would be better done more generally. 

 

The following is the section from extensions.conf. Of the four contexts, the
first I provided, and the last three were generated. In order for this to
work properly, I needed to add the "@ext-paging" context to the
macro-pagingintercom invocation in the [page_an_extension] and [pagegroups]
contexts

 

My question is, would it be best for the GUI to prompt the user for the Page
context (in this case the ext-paging context) - I don't think that the GUI
should generate this context, because it will need to be meddled with. By
asking the user to enter the Page context, it will also clue them as to the
need for it. 

 

[ext-paging]

; below works for snom phones... other phones may need flavor 2 (following)

exten => _XXX,1,Set(__SIPADDHEADER=Call-Info: Answer-After=0)

;exten = s,n,SIPAddHeader(Call-Info: <sip:${my-ip}>\;answer-after=0)

exten => _XXX,n,Set(__SIP_URI_OPTIONS=intercom=true)

exten => _XXX,n,Set(__ALERT_INFO=Ring Answer)

exten => _XXX,n,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN},20|pN)

 

[macro-pagingintercom]

exten = s,1,SIPAddHeader(Alert-Info: ${PAGING_HEADER})

exten = s,n,Page(${ARG1}|${ARG2})

exten = s,n,Hangup

 

 

[page_an_extension]

exten = _#XXX,1,Macro(pagingintercom|Local/${EXTEN:1}@ext-paging|d)

 

[pagegroups]

exten = 6400,1,Macro(pagingintercom|SIP/100 at ext-paging&SIP/181 at ext-paging|d)

 

 

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