[Asterisk-Users] Dial Rules in localprefixes.conf

[steve at daviesfam.org]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Michael Sampson wrote:

> I want to set up a dial rule like this 
> 9304752#w9#w+NXXXXXXXXX 
>  
> The point of this is. It will dial into a pbx with the account number 
> 9304752, wait a second, dial 9 to get an outside line, wait a second for 
> the outside line, and then dial the number to be called. When ever I 
> save this in amp anything after the first # disappears. When I try to 
> call out it doesn't do the adding of the prefix. I don't think its even 
> able to parse localprefixes.conf. does anyone know how I can accomplish 
> this?
> 
> if I get rid of the #'s it adds the prefix and dials fine, but the pbx 
> doesn't know the answer after the account number without it, so I get an 
> "all circuits are busy" because of "no answer"
> 
> If in AMP I set up that string under Outbound Dial Prefix rather then 
> Dial Rules, then it works fine. But that does it for all numbers and I 
> just want it to do it for 10 digit numbers.


Hi,

This looks like an AMP issue rather than Asterisk.

To do what you want in Asterisk you'd just say:

exten => NXXXXXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/gX/9304752#w9#w${EXTEN})

How to do that equivalent in AMP you'd better ask on the AMP list.

Regards,
Steve