[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail

[Michael George]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Jay Milk wrote:
> How about starting your macro with SetVar(DialedExten=${MACRO_EXTEN})
> and then going into voicemail with VoiceMail(u${DialedExten})

Well, I tried setting variables and saving them through the context 
change, but the variable (DialedExten in your example) had no value in 
the Dial(Local/...) call.  The recursion messes all that up.

I did find the solution, though, and that is when in the Macro context 
and ready to go to voice mail, I check to see if the CHANNEL is a 
loopback (${CHANNEL}:0:5 = Local) and if so, I do a SoftHangup().  That 
causes the Local channel to close down and actually return control to 
the initial Macro context, where I can deal with the call just as I 
wanted.

Thanks for your suggestion!

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael George [mailto:george at auroravideosys.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:00 AM
>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
>>
>>
>> I am configuring call forwarding in our * setup, but I am having
>> trouble triggering the correct voicemail call.
>>
>> When I have an extension, e.g. 201, forwarded to another,
>> e.g. 202, my
>> macro will call:
>> Dial(Local/${fwNum}@internal/n,30)
>>
>> and once into the internal context, the macro is called again
>> but with
>> MACRO_EXTEN set to 202 rather than 201.  So the context flow
>> of control
>> will "do it's thing" against 202.  What I want, though, is to return
>> from that macro differently when the Dial() was called against Local
>> rather than my internal extensions.  Then, have that Dial(Local/...)
>> return with the priority set to either n+1 or n+101 so that I can
>> handle the flow into VM based on that original extension.
>>
>> I'm thinking that CHANNEL, MACRO-PRIORITY, and MACRO_OFFSET might be
>> helpful for a return from the subsequent call to the macro,
>> but I need
>> to get information passed back through the Dial(Local/...)
>> call so that
>> I can know what happened with the dial to the forward target.
>>
>> I would be satisfied if I can get the return from
>> Dial(Local/...) even
>> if I cannot differentiate a busy vs. timeout condition.
>>
>> Most of the forwarding examples I've found are missing parts of the
>> config file and/or do not seem to work quite right.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> -Michael
>>
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-Michael