[Asterisk-Users] Hold Pickup

[denon]

Look at bkw's valet parking

-d

At 03:58 PM 3/21/2005, you wrote:
>I'm working through my list of features people will expect, and Hold 
>Pickup is at the top at the moment -- has anyone done any work on 
>this?  We've had some unpleasant experiences with call parking, and 
>everyone seems to like the Hold Pickup model.  If you don't know what I 
>mean by Hold Pickup, it's sort of a reverse transfer; pick up the nearest 
>phone and dial <prefix>12345 to pick up a call holding on ext. 12345.
>
>It looks like the closest to what I want (without changing Asterisk) would 
>be Park followed by an AGI that pokes my manager-port client (which in 
>turn would redirect the target extension's channel to...well, something) 
>-- if the parking space was returned to the dialplan somehow (or if Park() 
>didn't ignore its arguments).
>
>At the moment, I'm using the v1-0 branch and at this point it looks like 
>our phones will be all SIP (i.e., madding chan_sip to make sendonly 
>channels visible to the dialplan somehow isn't automatically out of the 
>question).
>
>--
>Joshua P. Dady
>
>
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