[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail

[Jay Milk]

Nice workaround.  I was under the impression that SetVar works
(according to the wiki) within the scope of a channel, but apparantly it
gets lost once you move context.  Bummer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael George [mailto:george at auroravideosys.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
> 
> 
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Jay Milk wrote:
> > How about starting your macro with 
> SetVar(DialedExten=${MACRO_EXTEN})
> > and then going into voicemail with VoiceMail(u${DialedExten})
> 
> Well, I tried setting variables and saving them through the context 
> change, but the variable (DialedExten in your example) had no 
> value in 
> the Dial(Local/...) call.  The recursion messes all that up.
> 
> I did find the solution, though, and that is when in the 
> Macro context 
> and ready to go to voice mail, I check to see if the CHANNEL is a 
> loopback (${CHANNEL}:0:5 = Local) and if so, I do a 
> SoftHangup().  That 
> causes the Local channel to close down and actually return control to 
> the initial Macro context, where I can deal with the call just as I 
> wanted.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion!
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Michael George [mailto:george at auroravideosys.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:00 AM
> >> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
> >>
> >>
> >> I am configuring call forwarding in our * setup, but I am having 
> >> trouble triggering the correct voicemail call.
> >>
> >> When I have an extension, e.g. 201, forwarded to another, 
> e.g. 202, 
> >> my macro will call:
> >> Dial(Local/${fwNum}@internal/n,30)
> >>
> >> and once into the internal context, the macro is called again but 
> >> with MACRO_EXTEN set to 202 rather than 201.  So the context flow
> >> of control
> >> will "do it's thing" against 202.  What I want, though, is 
> to return
> >> from that macro differently when the Dial() was called 
> against Local
> >> rather than my internal extensions.  Then, have that 
> Dial(Local/...)
> >> return with the priority set to either n+1 or n+101 so that I can
> >> handle the flow into VM based on that original extension.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking that CHANNEL, MACRO-PRIORITY, and 
> MACRO_OFFSET might be 
> >> helpful for a return from the subsequent call to the macro, but I 
> >> need to get information passed back through the Dial(Local/...)
> >> call so that
> >> I can know what happened with the dial to the forward target.
> >>
> >> I would be satisfied if I can get the return from
> >> Dial(Local/...) even
> >> if I cannot differentiate a busy vs. timeout condition.
> >>
> >> Most of the forwarding examples I've found are missing 
> parts of the 
> >> config file and/or do not seem to work quite right.
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >> -Michael
> >>
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