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

[Tilghman Lesher]

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On Monday 15 December 2003 13:19, Sri wrote:
> 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)
> 
> Is there a document that lists the functions that you have used in
> the script?
> If there is no such document, whats a good starting point to get a
> list of them.

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-Tilghman