[Asterisk-Users] AGI dialing??

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:39, WipeOut wrote:
> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:55, WipeOut wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have been playing around with AGI scripting..
> >>
> >>I have worked out how to initiate a call using "EXEC Dial 
> >>channel/number" the problem with this is that the script then completes 
> >>and does not wait for the call to end..
> >>
> >>Is there an alternate way to dial the call and then when the call is 
> >>complete return to the sript to move on to what ever you need the script 
> >>to do next?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The problem you have is that to get an AGI script going, you have one
> >leg of a call, and you are about to DIAL a second leg. Asterisk connects
> >the 2 and leaves the AGI with nothing to work on.
> >
> Ok I think I understand, You are saying that the AGI execution is simply 
> a routine that at a point will pass the caller off when the "Dial" is 
> executed and Asterisk will bridge the call.. The AGI has no reason to 
> wait there for the call to end becasue it has done what it was 
> programmed to do and will simply continue on to the next step in the 
> script.. is that right?

Yes, you are correct.

> >If you want to have a call start and be dumped into AGI, then you need
> >to use the sample.call file to make the call and hook it up to the AGI
> >script.
> >  
> >
> Not quite sure what you mean here.. you mean that the AGI will be called 
> from the sample.call file?? how is this different form calling the AGI 
> from the dial plan?

They differ only by what caused the call to happen. In the case of
something in the dialplan, a call was most likely generated by a user.
In the sample.call function, you are trying to make a call happen
without necessarily being one of the parties. 

  

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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>