[Asterisk-Users] after hours logic

[Andrew Thompson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Arbuckle" <asterisk at arbuckle.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:16 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] after hours logic


> I think I have a good start on this, but I can't figure out how to
> modify the behavior of the extension phones in a manner that will easily
> scale above a few extensions.  All I can think of is to have a seperate
> [after-hours] context that has different GoTo's but that seems rather
> cumbersome.  Any suggestions are welcome.
> FLAME away if this is a stupid question :)

Go to your console, and type show application GotoIfTime

>
> ;*************
> [main-menu]
> ;*************
> exten => s,1,Zapateller(answer|nocallerid) ;play SIT if no Caller-Id
> exten => s,2,PrivacyManager                ;prompt for Caller-Id if not
> present
>                                            ;otherwise goto 103
>
> ;check for after-hours
> include => night|00:00-7:59|*|*|*
> include => night|21:31-23:59|*|*|*
>
> ;check for day time
> include => day|8:00-21:30|*|*|*
>
> ; set some defaults
> exten => s,5,SetResponseTimeout,20
> exten => s,6,SetDigitTimeout,10
> exten => s,7,SetMusicOnHold,default
>
> ; the menu
> exten => s,8,Playback,intro           ; Thanks for calling....
> exten => s,9,Background,instructions  ; Press 1 for xxx, 2 for xxx
>
> ;change to something nicer
> exten => i,1,Hangup
> exten => t,1,Hangup
>
> ; the options
> exten => 1,1,Goto(Sales,s,1)
> exten => 2,1,Goto(Support,s,1)
> exten => 3,1,Goto(Billing,s,1)
> exten => 9,1,Directory(exten-local)
>
> exten => s,103,Playback (we-dont-accept-calls-from-unknown-callers)
> exten => s,104,Hangup
>
> ;*************
> [day]
> ;*************
> exten => s,3,Dial,Zap/2|20
> exten => s,4,NoOp
>
> ;*************
> [night]
> ;*************
> exten => s,3,Playback (after-hours-message)
> exten => s,4,Goto(s,9)
>
> ; change extensions to use STDEXTN Macro
> ;*************
> [Sales]
> ;*************
> exten => s,1,Dial,Zap/2|20
> exten => s,2,Voicemail,u8000
> exten => s,102,Voicemail,b8000
>
> ;*************
> [Support]
> ;*************
> exten => s,1,Dial,Zap/2|20
> exten => s,2,Voicemail,u8001
> exten => s,102,Voicemail,b8001
>
> ;*************
> [Billing]
> ;*************
> exten => s,1,Dial,Zap/2|20
> exten => s,2,Voicemail,u8002
> exten => s,102,Voicemail,b8002
>

If "billing", "support", and "sales" are your users/extensions, go back to
the asterisk pdf, or the wiki and look up macro's. Actually, you'll probably
be interested in them to clean up that section anyway...

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