[asterisk-users] What do you use? .conf or AEL?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:39:58 Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:07:16 Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> >> > My viewpoint is that you should work on separation of your application
> >> > code versus data, so that other than new development, your dialplan
> >> > should be completely static and never need changing (other than, like
> >> > I said, new development).
> >>
> >> But what would you call "new development"? Say I have a site who has
> >> many extensions and they then wanted to create a call-group - ie. one
> >> new extension, ring multiple phones?
> >>
> >> In my world, they go to the web interface, create the extension, tick a
> >> selection of existing extensions and the code then writes out a new
> >> segment of dialplan to create the new extension, issues an extensions
> >> reload command to asterisk and off it goes...
> >
> > I'd have a range of extensions, when dialled, it goes to the database,
> > retrieves the list of channels, and dials those channels.  The web
> > frontend would look exactly the same, but the data would go directly into
> > a database, not taking an extra step to go into a dialplan, then reload
> > the text file.
>
> How do you define the hints (for BLF, directed pickup, group
> pickup etc.)?

As of 1.6, you can have pattern-match hints that query a database for the
actual set of channels.

-- 
Tilghman