[Asterisk-Users] Background() command

[Lyle Giese]

Here's how I handle your situation and it works just fine:

[usersmenu]
exten => s,1,DigitTimeout,5 ;set digit timeout to 5 seconds
exten => s,2,ResponseTimeout,10 ; Set Response Timeoute to 10 sec
exten => s,3,Background(usermenuopts) ; Press 1 for lyle, 2 for Adam, 3 for
Lois or timeout to next step
exten => s,4,Voicemail(u110); Drop into general vm for LCR

exten => 1,1,Voicemail(u101)
exten => 2,1,Voicemail(u103)
exten => 3,1,Voicemail(u102)
exten => 4,1,Voicemail(u110)
exten => 0,1,Goto(usersmenu,s,1)


Allthough I finish differently, hitting 1,2,3,4,0 or any valid extension
during the background works just fine.

Lyle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Penrod" <P.Penrod at fiber-ride.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Background() command


> Folks,
>
> Apologies ahead of time if this has already been asked (read the list for
> the last month looking
> for something similar).
>
> I have been trying to get the Background command to work with no joy yet.
>
> Here is what I am trying to do:
>
> 1. Answer the call.
> 2. Play the message in the background, while waiting on DTMF from user.
> 3. If I get a "1", then interrupt the message and dial the phone number
listed
>      at extension "1", otherwise play "invalid extension" and cycle back.
>
> Here is what I have so far:
>
> * note: phone numbers changed to "generic"
>
> [message]
> exten => s,1,Answer()
> exten => s,2,Wait(2) ;Pause to let the user end catch up with the
connection
> exten => s,3,Background(demo-congrats)
> exten => s,4,Goto(3)
>
> exten => t,1,Playback(vm-goodbye)
> exten => t,2,Hangup()
>
> exten => i,1,Playback(pbx-invalid)
> exten => i,2,Goto(s,3)
>
> exten => 1,1,Playback(transfer)
> exten => 1,2,Dial(SIP/4805551212/20)
>
> [incoming]
>
> exten => 8665551212,1,Goto(message,s,1)
>
> What I get is:
>
> 1. The number is answered and the demo-congrats file plays.
> 2. No matter what button I press on the phone, the file continues to play
> and recycle when it's done.
>
> Question(s):
>
> 1. Is there a proper way to configure this?
> 2. Am I missing a configuration step somewhere in the one of the conf
files.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ...Paul
>
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