[Asterisk-Users] Hold, park, transfer, etc-- How is it done?

[Steve Murphy]

Hello--

I've gotten a rudimentary system up & running, and I now have these
problems/questions/comments/surprises:

Problem 1:
In voicemail, using "6" to go to the next message doesn't seem to work
at all.

Problem 2:
And, I specified a group to dial as an option in an extension. I have
only one of the 3 extensions plugged in, and it doesn't ring (but the
console says it's ringing the first member of the group.) What gives? Am
I malspecifying the group (Zap/g3) in the dial command in the
extensions.conf file? Or describing it wrongly in zapata.conf? Or, do I 
need all members of the group plugged into the card?

Big Question:
How do you put a call on hold? How would you transfer the call? What is
"call park", and how does that play into all this? What cool features
come pretty much default with asterisk? How are they accessed?

Comment on Docs:
The documentation available on the Digium site is nice, at least, for
what is there. It'd be nice to see it finished up... in the meantime,
the (ie) "show application gotoif" seems to suffice... and the mailing list
has answered a few questions, like how to record messages for playback.

Pleasant Surprise:
I've got a 1970's rotary dial phone (which miraculously works instead of
touch tone with asterisk!), and a few cheap touch-tone phones to test
all this.

Thanks,

murf

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