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

[Todd Lieberman]

Using a Q is nice because you can have another employee or group of 
employees cover while the receptionist is on break.

TL

Olle E. Johansson 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)
>
> Thank you all!
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+tips+autoattendant
> created.
>
> /O
>
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