[Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits

[Eric Jacksch]

Not sure I understand..does that help my problem of not being able to enter
sufficient digits, or is that a consideration once I get a driver that
allows me to # terminate the dialing string?


On 2004-09-05 15:00, "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org> wrote:

> Just to clarify the usage of the . wildcard in your dialplan.
> 
> Here is the proper usage of this feature which seems to not be documented
> ANYWHERE very well.
> 
> [default] 
> include => other 
> exten => _712XXX,1,NoOp,Blah
> 
> [other] 
> exten => _7.,1,NoOp,somethingelse
> 
> 
> The extensions in the current context win over an include.. only if
> something doesn't specifically match in [default] but does as a wildcard as
> an include then it will work.  Remember includes are your friend.
> 
> bkw 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Brose
>> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:50 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits
>> 
>> 
>> The problem you are having is due to the way chan_phone was designed.
>> The distributed driver does not buffer the entire phone number dialed
>> and then send it on to the PBX,
>> like a SIP phone would, but instead scans the dial plan after every
>> digit is entered to look for a match.
>> The solution is to only use fixed length extension patterns, but at the
>> same time requires different dial plans
>> for the Phone/phoneX devices.  I you're only dialing PSTN numbers it's
>> not so bad, but many VOIP providers
>> have all kinds of numbering plans. On the other hand, fixed patterns are
>> nice since you don't have to
>> press any "call" or "dial" buttons to make the call.
>> 
>> I have a new chan_phone driver which solves this issue by buffering the
>> dial string until the user presses
>> the pound (#) key to send the phone number to the pbx.  The features can
>> be toggled on/off any time by dialing
>> *1#  or  *0#  or in the config file with a mode "buffered"  which is
>> otherwise the same as "dialtone"
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Eric Jacksch wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings, 
>>> 
>>> I'm having a miserable time getting Asterisk working with FWD.  All the
>>> samples show something like...
>>> 
>>> exten => _7., ....
>>> 
>>> How do I get Asterisk to wait until the user is finished dialing instead
>> of 
>>> trying as soon as it gets the second digit?
>>> 
>>> I can use _7XXX, and dial the FWD 3-digit test numbers fine, but I'd like
>> to 
>>> be able to dial others...
>>> 
>>> Same problem for outside analog line...how do I convince Asterisk to send
>>> anything that starts with a "9" to it?
>>> 
>>> If it makes a difference, I'm playing with some QuickNet cards to learn
>> the 
>>> system...then I'll likely buy some other cards with higher capacity.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, 
>>> Eric 
>>> 
>>> 
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