[Asterisk-Users] macro-dial

[Mimmus]

Philippe,
I understand what you say...
I'd like to free myself from AMP/Freepbx because I feel better if I have
only 'vi-made' configuration files I can tweak.
I'd like also to have macro-dial entirely in the dialplan without AGI script
but without losing call-forwarding, do-not-disturb, etc. functionalities. At
this moment, I cleaned up a lot of things but still have dialparties.agi. I
hope to thrash it in some future, when I will be able to rewrite all logic
in the diaplan.
 
Thanks
Domenico
 


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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Philippe
Lindheimer
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:44 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] macro-dial


Domenico,
 
as I mentioned: "...and extensions are not necessarily what you think they
are
either." AMP/Freepbx 'virtualizes' extensions. The basic concept is that
there are users and then there are devices. A user can have multiple
devices. The default shipping mode provides the 'extensions' tab which ends
up creating a user with the sam extension number as the device that you
assign them. However, if you flip to 'deviceanduser' mode (see
/etc/amportal.conf - AMPEXTENSIONS=) you will see that you now can control
users separate from devices and you can assign multiple devices to a single
user or you can make a device adhoc allowing any user to login to the device
and it becomes their phone until they logout.
 
So as I mentioned, it isn't that simple, it is the reason for all the
various callerid macros, dialparties.agi, etc. that is there. If you want
more detail, in addition to digging in as you have, you may want to move
over to the freepbx.org site and/or the IRC. If you want to get rid of
dialparties, maybe you can get the entire functionality into a dialplan
format (and probably improve performance) and then submit it back. But as
you've probably seen, dialparties itself is inegrally interwoven with
macro-dial and the various other interdependencies throughout the dial plan,
astdb, etc.
 
p




From: "Mimmus" <dviggiani at tiscali.it>
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:21:46 +0200
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] macro-dial

Hi,
I digged in dialparties.agi and found that apart from DND, hunt-group,
status, etc its main function is looking up real device(s) for any user from
AstDB. In fact, AMP/FreePBX keep a long list of entries in AstDB for any
device/user.

I'm interested in knowing how people on this list manage link between an
extension and the real device (SIP, Zap, etc).

Thanks



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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Philippe
Lindheimer
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:42 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] macro-dial


It's not that simple. dialparties is fundamental to the whole
dialplan in AMP/freepbx and accomplishes a lot of the features such as hunt
groups, DND, etc. And extensions are not necessarily what you think they are
either. If you don't like it, you'd probably be better off writing your own
dialplan or alternatively, rewrite it's entire functionality outside of an
agi and then submit the mod to freepbx to streamline freepbx more.

p

From: "Mimmus" 
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"

Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:00:36 +0200
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] macro-dial

Hi,
I'm trying to edit an AMP-derived dialplan: the macro "dial" uses
the AGI
script "dialparties.agi" to find the extension to call.
I'd like to drop this script: does anyone can explain me what is its
main
job?

Thanks
-- 
Domenico Viggiani






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