[asterisk-users] Dialer software for Asterisk...

[A J Stiles]

On Friday 14 Feb 2014, Carlos Chavez wrote:
> [stuiff omitted]
> Does anyone know of a dialer for Asterisk that can
> take several phone numbers for the same contact and if any of those
> answers it will not try the other numbers?

You can do that in your dialplan, without any additional software!  All you 
*might* have to do is patch your existing dialler software  (or more probably, 
just do an ALTER on a database table)  so it can handle a string five times the 
length of a normal phone number.

Now you just have to concatenate together all the possible phone numbers for a 
client.

Pass the string of concatenated numbers to your dialplan; spot that it is much 
longer than a normal phone number; and send it off to a special context which 
will split the number up, and then try each section in turn until one answers.


In countries where they still have different-length phone numbers, you probably 
will need to introduce a * as a delimiter between each number and the next.

-- 
AJS

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