[Asterisk-Users] Using a variable for EXTEN

[Dave Cotton]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:30 +0100, Alessio Focardi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried set up a global var for an extension, like this
> 
> [globals]
> 
> IPPHONES=_3XX
> 
> [sip]
> 
> exten=>${IPPHONES},1,Answer
> 
> What I would like to do is to make a dialplan without fixed extension
> numbers to change the entire dialplan according to the customer
> requests: what exten number do you want for your IP Phones ? let me change
> a variable and we are set!
> 
> It seems that this is not supported, am I getting somethig wrong in
> the syntax? There is another way to accomplish that ?

Works like that for me (tm).  If it's not working look carefully at all
your config files.


-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>