[Asterisk-Users] ParkAndAnnounce2 Feature Request

[Steve Blair]

Steven:

  I'm assuming your using IP phones registered to Asterisk in this 
example. I don't do that but I use ParkandAnnounce for IP phones 
registering to a SER server. To handle the call back part of your 
question I use a snipet like:

exten => _700,5,SIPGetHeader(REFBY=Referred-By)
exten => 
_700,6,ParkAndAnnounce(parkedcall16:PARKED|7200|SIP/${REFBY:5:5}@<SER 
proxy IP>|default|${EXTEN}|3)

-Steve

Steven Andres wrote:

>We've had a regular Park function in the past but recently I found the 
>ParkAndAnnounce() application and I love the idea behind it. Here's a snip 
>from the wiki 
>(http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+ParkAndAnnounce) 
>so that we're all talking the same language:
>
>|| ParkAndAnnounce(announce:template|timeout|dial|return_context)
>||
>|| Park a call into the parkinglot and announce the call over an extension.
>||
>|| announce template: colon seperated list of files to announce, the word
>||   PARKED will be replaced by a say_digits of the ext the call is parked 
>in
>|| timeout: time in seconds before the call returns into the return context.
>|| dial: The app_dial style resource to call to make the announcement.
>||   Console/dsp calls the console.
>|| return_context: the goto style label to jump the call back into after 
>timeout.
>
>
>Perhaps someone has accomplished these enhancements in the dialplan already 
>(if you have, please share!), but here's what I would like to modify 
>ParkAndAnnounce to do, if I were a skilled coder:
>
>SYNTAX:
> ParkAndAnnounce2(announce:template|timeout|dial|return_context|options)
>
>OPTIONS:
>    a = Asterisk would insert SIP header of "Call-Info: Answer-After: 0" to
>          the dial command. This would allow the announcement to happen
>          over the target phone's speaker and not require answering a
>          ringing call. Only affects announcement, not call park return
>    p = automatically make announcements to whomever originated the
>          parking and return parked calls to same. Caller ID Name will read
>          'Call Park at XXX' during announcement and 'Call Park Return'
>          during return. Currently it just says 'asterisk'
>
>EXAMPLE:
>   exten => 700,1,Answer
>   exten => 700,2,Wait(1)
>   exten => 700,3,ParkAndAnnounce2(pbx-transfer:PARKED|60|ignore|ignore|ap)
>
>In this example, let's assume that an outside caller reaches me at extension 
>101. I blind-transfer on my SIP phone to extension 700. The caller hears 
>music-on-hold and is parked in the next available slot (let's say 701). The 
>app would then add the auto-answer header (thanks to the 'a' option) needed 
>for our GXP-2000's and then place the call to SIP/101 (the device that 
>originated the parking) with the CallerID Name set to 'Call Park at 701'. 
>The call is auto-answered at the SIP phone (thanks to the SIP header) and 
>then the dial plan plays "pbx-transfer", reads out the digits, and hangs up. 
>After 60 seconds, the caller is returned to SIP/101 (this time without the 
>auto-answer SIP header) with the CallerID Name set to 'Call Park Return'. 
>Notice that when the 'p' option is used, the 'dial' and 'return' parameters 
>are ignored.
>
>
>Does anyone else think this is interesting/valuable enough to submit to 
>Mantis as a feature request? Or am I just off on my own little world?
>
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