[Asterisk-Users] call initiation

[Roger]

Roger wrote:

> Users withing the office can dial a 3 digit extension and that will 
> ring a phone.  The problem I'm running into is you have to press xxx 
> then press 'send or 'dial'.  The pbx doesn't recognize a 3 digit 
> number as an internal extension and automatically dial it the user has 
> to initiate that call.  Asterisk automatically initiates calls w/ 9+7 
> digits and LD calls, 9+1+areacode+number.
>
> How would you tell the PBX try an extension once and 3 digits have 
> been pressed.  The exception being 9 as that gives a outside line.
>
Because everyone in the office has a 3 digit extension I tried this...

exten => _[0-8]XX,1,Dial(SIP/${ARG1},20|r)

The 2rd and 3rd numbers don't matter - but the first must be 0-8, not 9.

Can anyone office suggestions on how to clean this code up?