[Asterisk-Users] divert if not here

[Steve Totaro]

It almost sounds like you need to take advantage of using agents in
asterisk.  Search the wiki for "agent"

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-searchresults.php?words=agent&where=pages

Thanks,
Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <steve at daviesfam.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] divert if not here


>
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Altus Syman wrote:
>
> > Good day all
> > We have a pbx system running sip and sipphone(Bughtone)
> > My question is.If a user is not at their desk,how do I tell it if a call
> > comes in it should direct it to someone else
> > Do I need a different phone for this?The only other way is that they
> > have to switch it off and in my dialplan on stem 2 I will have to say go
> > to that user?
> > Please give advice on this
> > Thaks
> > Altus
>
> Hi Altus,
>
>
> Normally you would have your Dial() call just ring the phone for a limited
> time.  For example Dial(SIP/12345,20) would ring the phone for 20 seconds.
> Asterisk will then carry on with the next step and you can do something
> else.
>
> So:
>
>   exten => 6001,1,Dial(SIP/6001,20)
>   exten => 6001,2,Voicemail(u6001)
>
> Will ring the phone for 20 seconds, then send the call to Voicemail,
> playing the "unavailable" message.
>
> There are lots of other examples on http://www.voip-info.org/ I am sure.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Davies
>
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