[asterisk-users] Identifying invoking party for a feature

[Mindaugas Kezys]

How did you managed to et info who pressed the button for feature request?
CHANNEL and CALLERID(NUM) variables are pointing to wrong direction.

Regards/Pagarbiai,
Mindaugas Kezys
 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Wayne P. HIll
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:10 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Identifying invoking party for a feature

heh.  Just got permission to drop 1.2.10 on there and it seems to be  
working the way i want it now.


--Wayne
On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Wayne P. HIll wrote:

> I'm working on a server being implemented for a client right now  
> which, due to a long string of issues I won't go into, has decided  
> that they wish to use cisco 7960s over sccp with asterisk.  Now  
> it's up to us to write in the many features that this setup doesn't  
> support by default.  The current issue is with "n-way" calls.
>
> As a base we're using the code from the how-to on VoIP-info, using  
> app_asyncgoto rather than using ChannelRedirect and running trunk.   
> That, so far, hasn't been an issue.
>
> The How-to is here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+n- 
> way+call+HOWTO  for reference.
>
> The issue we face is this:  Because of the way featuremap works,  
> regardless of who invokes the feature, the party identified as  
> 'caller' gets prompted to invite the 3rd party, eg Joe Random calls  
> the clients company and it's determined a 3way conference is going  
> to be necessary.  Jenny Random, the Service Rep, hits the key  
> sequence for a conference, with the current setup, Joe would be  
> prompted for the party he wishes to conference, and Jenny would be  
> thrown into the dynamic room.
>
> The questions I have is basically, is there any way to identify  
> (through an accessible either as a variable or through agi) which  
> party in a call is the party who actually invoked the feature?
>
> Thanks for the help
> Wayne
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