[Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits

[Brian West]

Actually it does the proper usage of the "." char in your dial plan should
solve this problem.  It's not the channel driver that's doing this its
asterisk.  You need to sandbox a wildcard into its own context then include
it.  Otherwise it wins NO MATER WHAT.  This way an extension defined within
the current context wins over the included wildcard context.
S=
bkw

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric Jacksch
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits
> 
> Not sure I understand..does that help my problem of not being able to
> enter
> sufficient digits, or is that a consideration once I get a driver that
> allows me to # terminate the dialing string?
> 
> 
> On 2004-09-05 15:00, "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just to clarify the usage of the . wildcard in your dialplan.
> >
> > Here is the proper usage of this feature which seems to not be
> documented
> > ANYWHERE very well.
> >
> > [default]
> > include => other
> > exten => _712XXX,1,NoOp,Blah
> >
> > [other]
> > exten => _7.,1,NoOp,somethingelse
> >
> >
> > The extensions in the current context win over an include.. only if
> > something doesn't specifically match in [default] but does as a wildcard
> as
> > an include then it will work.  Remember includes are your friend.
> >
> > bkw
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> >> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Brose
> >> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:50 PM
> >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wildcards and variable number of digits
> >>
> >>
> >> The problem you are having is due to the way chan_phone was designed.
> >> The distributed driver does not buffer the entire phone number dialed
> >> and then send it on to the PBX,
> >> like a SIP phone would, but instead scans the dial plan after every
> >> digit is entered to look for a match.
> >> The solution is to only use fixed length extension patterns, but at the
> >> same time requires different dial plans
> >> for the Phone/phoneX devices.  I you're only dialing PSTN numbers it's
> >> not so bad, but many VOIP providers
> >> have all kinds of numbering plans. On the other hand, fixed patterns
> are
> >> nice since you don't have to
> >> press any "call" or "dial" buttons to make the call.
> >>
> >> I have a new chan_phone driver which solves this issue by buffering the
> >> dial string until the user presses
> >> the pound (#) key to send the phone number to the pbx.  The features
> can
> >> be toggled on/off any time by dialing
> >> *1#  or  *0#  or in the config file with a mode "buffered"  which is
> >> otherwise the same as "dialtone"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Eric Jacksch wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>> I'm having a miserable time getting Asterisk working with FWD.  All
> the
> >>> samples show something like...
> >>>
> >>> exten => _7., ....
> >>>
> >>> How do I get Asterisk to wait until the user is finished dialing
> instead
> >> of
> >>> trying as soon as it gets the second digit?
> >>>
> >>> I can use _7XXX, and dial the FWD 3-digit test numbers fine, but I'd
> like
> >> to
> >>> be able to dial others...
> >>>
> >>> Same problem for outside analog line...how do I convince Asterisk to
> send
> >>> anything that starts with a "9" to it?
> >>>
> >>> If it makes a difference, I'm playing with some QuickNet cards to
> learn
> >> the
> >>> system...then I'll likely buy some other cards with higher capacity.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>>
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