[Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that are ringing onother extensions?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:16 -0400, James Freire wrote:
> Well I dont want it to operate as a group. I understand that it is *8
> on most PBX systems but I would like it to work as dialing *8
> +extension-thats-ringing to have it go over to my extension. I am
> having a lot of trouble finding more information from the wiki and
> google.

Well thats how asterisk is set up. You would have to understand that
your picking up for a channel not an extension. Many extensions can
point to a single channel/phone. So how would you know what extension
you are picking up unless you had a really simple dialplan. Pickupgroups
allow you to define those who are members of the group and then the
members who can actually pickup those calls. 

Your other option right now would be to do something with the manager
API and redirect the call. 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Steven
> Critchfield
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialplan to Pick up calls that are ringing
> onother extensions?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:42 -0400, James Freire wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have a qestion that I am sure is not too out there. I would like to
> > setup my phones so that if I have an extension that is rining I can
> > call that extension thats ringing from another phone and have it
> > connect to the phone that I am on. This would help if someone is not
> > picking up their phone and I cant get to that phone to pick it up.
> > Anybody encounter a dialplan that would do this?
> > 
> > Is there any type of signal that shows a phone is ringing so when I do
> > try to make up this litle plan it knows the difference between ringing
> > and a busy extension?
> 
> Lookup pickupgroup in the Wiki, google, or the config files. 
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>