The "i" extension is used for IVR/Auto Attendant type messages. If you want to use this for traditional outward dial from internal extensions you should include some sort of bogon context (to avoid sort order conflicts with the dialplan, otherwise you would match all extensions)
<br><br>You will note in your example that you are using the Background application, which is what the in-context 'i' extension is intended for.<br><br>You would want something like this for internal dialing (obviously taking into consideration any other contexts, the 'bogon' context should be the last include in any outbound dialing context.
<br><br>[internal]<br>include => bogons<br>exten => 611,1,Answer()<br>exten => 611,2,Playback(hello-world)<br>exten => 611,3,Hangup()<br><br>[bogons]<br>exten => _X.,1,Answer()<br>exten => _X.,2,Playback(pbx-invalid)
<br>exten => _X.,3,Hangup ; [or repoint them to some kind of internal AA/IVR]<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Candler</b> <<a href="mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com">
B.Candler@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:23:09AM -0500, Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote:
<br>> exten => _X.,1,Playback(pbx-invalid)<br>> exten => _X.,2,Goto(s,1)<br><br>OK, I can see that would match anything (and therefore implicitly anything<br>less specific than the dialplan).<br><br>However, can you explain to me why 'i' doesn't in this case (and does in the
<br>other case)? There is some subtlety that I have missed.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Brian.<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com
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