[asterisk-gui] Context names in the new GUI

[Pari Nannapaneni]

> Can you explain why this change was made? 

Hi David,

The change in behavior was because of an issue on our internal bug tracker. 

    AA50-2113 - Creation of Trunks uses name that won't match on inbound calls

    Description : The convention used to create a new trunk entry in users.conf, i.e. trunk_1, trunk_2, trunk_3, etc.,
                  works okay for outbound calls placed via that trunk. However, inbound calls fail. When a call is received,
                  Asterisk tries to match the inbound user as "trunk_1" instead of the real username, i.e. bobjones.
                  Please modify the creation of new trunks and the expression of those trunks in users.conf and extensions.conf 
                  so that they are what the user inputs into the "username" field when adding or editing a voip trunk. 
                  So, if I input mdavenport_soft as my username, then the entry in users.conf would be [mdavenport_soft] instead of trunk_1,
                  and everything in the dialplan that would have said trunk_1 should say "mdavenport_soft" instead.

You can  easily switch to the old style by uncommenting a couple of lines in pbx.js,
look for functions  addIAXTrunk() and addSIPTrunk() and change

--
  //var trunk = astgui_managetrunks.misc.nextAvailableTrunk_x();
   var trunk = tr.username ;

-- TO -- 

   var trunk = astgui_managetrunks.misc.nextAvailableTrunk_x();
   // var trunk = tr.username ;
--

May be one day we migh have an option in the gui to switch between these modes.

thanks
-Pari



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kerr" <David at Kerr.net>
To: asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:29:39 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [asterisk-gui] Context names in the new GUI



I just started using the new version of the GUI and am trying to migrate settings from a box that had the old GUI. I have found that the new GUI uses the username of a VOIP trunk as the basis for the context names in users.conf and extensions.conf (any maybe elsewhere too?). The old GUI used the name of the service provider as the basis (or whatever you entered as the name). 

This breaks me... I have multiple VOIP service providers with the same username, which obvously won't work. In one case ( vitelity.net ) they require two contexts be setup in asterisk with specific naming, one for vitel-inbound, one for vitel-outbound... both with the same username, but with different host addresses. In the new GUI I cannot set this up. If I manually change the context names by editing users.conf and extensions.conf, then I can no longer edit the trunk in the GUI. 

Can you explain why this change was made? 

Is there anyway I can change it back to using the trunk name as the basis for Context naming? 

Thanks 
David 

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