[asterisk-users] dialplan / problem with extension-length > 1

[Robert Lister]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:21:40PM +0200, Michael Kamleitner wrote:
> hi community,
> 
> I'm new to this list & asterisk in general, so let me first say thx to
> everybody involved in providing such great tools & ressources!!
> 
> I'm currently trying to implement a simple voicebox-system.
> for demonstration purposes, I've successfully connected my cellphone via
> bluetooth using the current chan_cellphone-patch on the current SVN-version
> of asterisk. everything seems to work fine so far (great patch!)
> 
> what I want to achieve:
> 
> * incoming call arrives
> * asterisk/cellphone answers
> * caller is greeted (playback of my-intro)
> * caller enters an extension
> * caller is directly forwarded to the voicemail of entered extension

I think waitexten is only for getting one (optional) digit at a time, 
for building IVR menus and things like that.

If the thing you want entering is non-optional or more than one digit, 
you may be better off using the Read() command. See:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Read

Example of:

exten => start,1,Read(agent,agent-user);

Plays the sound file "please enter your agent number, followed by the hash 
key" and puts the result into the variable ${agent}

You can also set the maximum number of digits to read, and a timeout, etc.

Rob


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