[Asterisk-Users] Directory app and extension

[David Filion]

Hi,

Our company is sharing * with multiple small companies. Our dial plan 
makes heavy use of patterns and DB look ups (postgresql) to avoid having 
to hard code values, especially since a lot of the dial plan is common 
to all the different companies.  The problem we're run into to with the 
employee directories.  The directory reads its values from 
voicemail.conf, using the context in voicemail.conf as the context to 
jump to in extensions.conf.  This means that we need to create a context 
in extensions.conf for every company,  duplicating a lot of code.  Now, 
we've found a way to still divide each company into separate contexts in 
voicemail.conf and have them all just to the same context in 
extensions.conf.  However, we need access to the actual extension 
number, which does not appear to be passed when the jump to extensions 
is made. This appears to result from forcing the context to jump to in 
extensions. 

So, the question is does anyone know of a way to get the extension 
number when the dial plan context is entered via Directory(), and if so how?

David Filion