[Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 05 January 2004 13:44, John Coll wrote:
> This newbie has been trying out Asterisk. It has been both a)
> surprisingly painful and b) impressive in terms of helpful support
> from other users.
>
> Having got two phones to communicate and then got voicemail MWI
> going (neither painlessly) I decided the next step was to implement
> call transfer as per nearly all commercial PBX systems i.e.
>
> 	hold call
> 	consult another extension
> 	either exit and let the two speak
> 	or get back the original caller
>
> - an utterly fundamental office procedure on a PBX.

I don't know why you'd need to implement that, as it's as simple as
turning on two options in zapata.conf.  Actually, I think both of
those options are on by default in the sample configuration files.

> And I've spent the requisite few hours on Google and all the docs I
> have printed out. Eventually I found the thread "transfer with
> three-way calling" (circa Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:45:08 -0600)  and it
> seems that I can't do that basic operation in Asterisk.

Why not?  Are you not able to send a flash hook?

-Tilghman