[Asterisk-Users] Busy message with call waiting?

[John Todd]

Hmm... this gets quickly back to my long-standing desire to have more 
comprehensive call completion codes being handed back by the channels 
to the dialplan.

The current method of throwing certain replies into a big bucket 
called "Busy" and others into a big bucket called "Error" and 
auto-jumping to certain priorities based on those two results is 
probably getting towards the end of it's useful life as people get 
more sophisticated with their dialing plans and error control. 
Perhaps a method of selectably moving to a "new" method of error 
handling is in order.  Instead of building a million little exception 
cases, why not hand some values back to the dialplan logic and let 
the person building the IVR create their own GotoIf tree?

See my post on the topic:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-April/009797.html

JT


>There's not really a way to do that that right now, although we could add
>something like AST_CONTROL_INUSE which could represent that the channel is
>in use actually.  Wouldn't be extremely difficult to do, but would "INUSE"
>and "BUSY" be the same?  If not, where do we jump to?
>
>Mark
>
>On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Derek Beaumont wrote:
>
>>  Is it possible to have both a busy and an away message when the call
>>  waiting feature is enabled?
>>
>>  extensions.conf
>>  ...
>>  exten=>403,1,Dial,Zap/3|10
>>  exten=>403,2,Voicemail2,u403
>>  exten=>403,103,Voicemail2,b403
>>  ...
>>
>>
>>  Because I have enabled call waiting, I can't see how it will be possible
>>  to get the busy message to play (because there will always be a dial
>>  tone).
>>  Am I right, or do I have incorrect configurations?
>>
>  > Thanks