[asterisk-gui] How to call custom Macros with Astersk GUI 2.0 ?

[bkruse]

I would suggest that when editing a voice menu, make _sure_ that they 
are numbered.

Besides, most things you can edit in a voice menu, you can add from the GUI

-bk

David Kerr wrote:
> I also ran into this problem. In fact it is worse than Christoph 
> suggests... if you go in and manually edit the extensions.conf file 
> then none of the [custom] changes are reflected in the GUI and in fact 
> can be *erased* by the gui.  I opened a bug report related to this... 
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13530
>
> David
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Christoph Adomeit 
> <Christoph.Adomeit at gatworks.de <mailto:Christoph.Adomeit at gatworks.de>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Brandon,
>
>     I did not completely get the picture yet. What I want to call is not
>     an IVR, it's arbitrary "applications" like maybe a "phrase recording"
>     menu.
>
>     How would you "abuse" the gui to do things like that ? Should I define
>     "IVR"s for these needs and do custom steps within the IVR definition ?
>
>     Are there better/other alternatives in Gui 2.0 ?
>
>     Greetings
>      Christoph
>
>     On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:21:18PM -0500, bkruse wrote:
>     > Hmm,
>     >
>     > There comes a time in which you have to do things through the
>     GUI for
>     > convention.
>     >
>     > Of course, I think in your situation, if you _have_ to, and not
>     redo the
>     > macros via some
>     > IVR in the GUI, then inside your main IVR (or wherever you want
>     to call
>     > the macro), add
>     > a 'custom' step, in which you could put the macro(macro-name, args)
>     > statement.
>     >
>     > -Brandon
>     >
>     > Christoph Adomeit wrote:
>     > > Hi,
>     > >
>     > > I just installed asterisk gui 2.0 and it looks great !
>     > >
>     > > Now I want to add my own macros to the dialplan and make the
>     > > macros useable by the GUI.
>     > >
>     > > For example I want to route calls to -4711 to a macro that
>     > > opens door a and -4712 to open door b. *73 should add the callerid
>     > > to the astdb and so on. The macros are custom macros I once wrote.
>     > >
>     > > I am used to voiceone and there all this can be achieved by
>     calling
>     > > "applications" and "macros" using incoming rules.
>     > >
>     > > Is there something similar in Asterisk GUI 2.0 ?
>     > > All I can choose for incoming calls is:
>     > > User Extension, Voice Menu, Operator, Hangup, Congestion and
>     > > "Local Extension by DID".
>     > >
>     > > What is the way of configuring my demands with Asterisk GUI 2.0 ?
>     > >
>     > > Thanks
>     > >   Christoph
>     > >
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