[Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro

[Josh Roberson]

Absolute timeout is 'T', and your standard timeout is 't'.  If he's 
looking for absolute timeout, he is, indeed, looking for the T extension.

They are case sensitive, and should work. 

Mr. Wade:  Have you tried using the T extension outside of the macro?  
Although it *SHOULD* work within the macro, we may have stumbled upon a 
bug..

-Josh

Chris Shaw wrote:

>For one thing it's 't' not 'T', just like invalid is 'i' not 'I'
>
>    -Chris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher L. Wade" <clwade at sparco.com>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:03 AM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro
>
>
>  
>
>>Christopher L. Wade wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Is it just me and not reading the docs right, or has anybody else had
>>>problems with the AbsoluteTimeout application and the 'T' extension when
>>>used inside a macro?
>>>
>>>[macro-attended]
>>>; ARG1 is the device to dial out on, SIP or Zap, or whatever
>>>; ARG2 is the extension to dial using 'attended' dialing
>>>exten => s,1,AbsoluteTimeout(30)
>>>exten => s,2,AGI(attended-extension,${ARG1},${ARG2})
>>>; attended-extension takes a device string and an extension
>>>; and builds a dial string according to some crazy internal logic
>>>exten => s,3,Dial(${DIALSTRING},5,t)
>>>exten => s,4,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
>>>
>>>exten => s-NOANSWER,1,Goto(s,1)
>>>
>>>exten => T,1,NoOp("i got here here")
>>>exten => T,2,Goto(s,1)
>>>
>>>The purpose of this macro is to be able to say something like
>>>
>>>exten => _8XX,1,Macro(attended,SIP,${EXTEN})
>>>
>>>and have the the dialed extension rung, then, if no answer within 5
>>>seconds, have the dialed extension plus an 'attendant' for that
>>>extension rung, (etc. etc. etc.).  If nobody answers after 30 seconds,
>>>the caller is (read 'will be') offered the chance to leave a voicemail,
>>>otherwise re-enter the loop, ringing the 'full' attendant list for the
>>>requested extension.
>>>
>>>When I test this, everything works according to plan, except when
>>>AbsoluteTimeout expires, my T extension inside the macro is not
>>>executed, the call is simply hungup.  What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Chris
>>>
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>>Anybody?
>>
>>Right now I'm considering doing this inside an AGI app, but I don't like
>>the way Dial is 'blocking' (AGI or not).  I guess I could use chan_local
>>in my dial string inside the AGI to make it 'fork' but that just creates
>>a whole new ball of ear wax to deal with. :(
>>
>>This 'bug' seams strange though, because I've seen examples that, at
>>least to my eyes, appear exactly the same as my above code.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris
>>    
>>