[asterisk-users] Dialplan extension priorities

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 18 April 2008 13:48:04 Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Second questions.
>
> Well possibly three questions.
>
> Can I create in a context a priority that skips a chunk.  The example in
> Paul Mahler's book indicates so but I'd like to confirm, without/before
> testing, my code.
>     This is desired so I can add/remove/augment dialplans/contexts that
> have a common jump to point.
>
> exten => 701,1, ...
> exten => 701,2, ...
> exten => 701,n, ...
>
> exten => 701,n, GotoIf( ... , 701,33)
>
> exten => 701,n, ...
>
> exten => 701,33, ...
>
> So I can add and and remove lines both before and after the GotoIf  line.

Yes.  The priority n simply means "take the last priority that was used in the
dialplan and add 1 to it".

> So second part/question.  Is there a "Manual' for * 1.4.x?
> And the third par/question.  Is the any books out or nearly so that
> cover * 1.4.  I really hate typing in a bunch of stuff only to find it
> doesn't work.  :-)

Try O'Reilly for "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony", second edition.

Full disclosure:  I assisted in the technical review of the book, and a few
sections of the appendices are almost completely my contribution.  Not to
mention some of the modules.

-- 
Tilghman