[Asterisk-Users] AutoAttendent ON/OFF control by Attendent

[Olle E. Johansson]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Monday 15 December 2003 10:57, Sri wrote:
> 
>>Hi All
>>This is one scenario I would like to have some help.  I have
>>searched the digium lists and could not find any posts on this.
>>
>>How can an Attendant switch on or off the AutoAttendant from her
>>phone? Eg.
>> 8am -> Attendent enters office -> switches OFF auto attendent. 
>>He/She takes in all the incoming calls and answers.
>> 12pm -> out of lunch. Needs to put the system back into Auto.
>> 1 pm -> return from lunch. Needs to switch OFF auto attendent
>> 5 pm- > Puts Auto attendent ON.
>>
>>I am sure there can be a script built that should change
>>extensions.conf. and reloading asterisk on the attendent activating
>>based on a clock that kicks in 8 am, 12 pm, 1 pm and 5 pm.
>>I dont want this to be time restricted. the attendent should have
>>control. Is there a better way ?  this could be even done through
>>the phone of the attendent eg, like *80-1 (ON) *80 - 2 (OFF)...
> 
> 
> exten => *801,1,DBPut(auto/attendant=1)
> exten => *802,1,DBPut(auto/attendant=0)
> exten => s,1,DBGet(autoattendant=auto/attendant)
> exten => s,2,GotoIf($[${autoattendant} = "1"]?auto|1)
> exten => s,3,Dial(Zap/23,30,t)
> exten => s,4,Goto(auto|1)
Thank you all!
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