[Asterisk-Users] Grandstream transfer into outer space

[Jim Rosenberg]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:19:13PM -0500, Matthew B Marlowe wrote:
> You said using the # feature gives you the ability to not lose a call if
> you dial an invalid extension but that doesn't work for me.
> 
> When I dial # and enter an invalid extension I want it to sy ' invalid
> extension' to ME and ask me to reenter one.
> 
> Instead if I dial # (or transfer button) and enter an invalid extension
> it plays ' invalid extension ' to the CALLER and asks THEM to reenter an
> extension number and the call is lost from me.

Hmm. Well, here's what I did. I modifited macro-stdexten so that the dial
command looks like this:

exten => s,1,Dial(${ARG2},20,tr)        ; Ring the interface, 20 seconds maximum

When the receiver of the call presses # and enters an invalid extension,
it seems to be announcing it was invalid to the person who pressed #, and
then *resuming the call* -- you haven't lost anybody.