[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail

[Michael George]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Jay Milk wrote:
> 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.

No, they will survive changes of context, but doing a Dial(Local/...) 
is essentially a whole new call and that didn't seem to work.

Or I did it wrong and I just was banging my head against a wall for 
nothing...  Either could be the case :)  But at least I have a way 
around it and it seems to work just as I desire.

>> -----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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>> -Michael
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-Michael