[Asterisk-Users] ASTCC: How to reset "in-use" flag automatically ?

[Ronald Wiplinger]

JP Carballo wrote:
> Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
>
>>> Insert this in astcc.agi; anywhere after the calls for it to load 
>>> and connect to the db.

I tried now many places to put these lines in. The system still 
announces "This card number is in use".
Can you give me a place where to put it in?


bye

Ronald Wiplinger
>>>
>>> if ($phoneno eq "RESET_INUSE") {
>>>    &setinuse($carddata->{number}, 0);
>>>    exit(0);
>>> }
>>>
>>> And this in extensions.conf:
>>>
>>> exten => s,n,DeadAGI(astcc.agi,${CARDNO},RESET_INUSE,2)
>>>
>>> I leave it to you to capture ${CARDNO} :)
>>>
>>> I don't enable this in the IVR unless the person has entered a valid 
>>> account number, for obvious reasons.
>>>
>>
>> Wouldn't that totally disable inuse??? It would be possible that a 
>> user uses two or more soft phones and make phone calls on multiple 
>> places!
>>
> Nope. I don't want that to happen either.
> Because the 2nd argument is normally the phone number to call, the 
> test will be false and the routine will be skipped if the customer 
> intends to call.
> Besides, if the routine does evaluate to true, it will exit the agi 
> and not process any calls anyway.
>
> Set this up as a separate extension that you can call if an account is 
> locked in use.
> I've only ever used this when testing new trunks because an account 
> with the inuse flag set means the previous call ended prematurely.
>
> In my case, I want customers to make one and only one call at a time 
> so I left the inuse handling mostly intact.
> I want it to be anal.
> If a customer complains about it, I'm more worried about a trunk 
> failing than a cheating caller.
>