[Asterisk-Users] Extension Configuration Best Practice

[Rich Adamson]

One method is to give each hard and soft phone their own extension
numbers. Then create a 'call forwarding' approach that essentially
says when someone dials x1234, ring 1235 instead. I believe there
are a couple of asterisk-based call forwarding approaches shown in
the wiki.

One such way is to have your user dial a predetermined extension
(eg, 4123) and the code within that extension definition does a
dbput of some value (eg, true, 1, or whatever). Then when someone
calls x1234, test the value using dbget to see if the call should
be forwarded. That's all hard-coded logic, but the wiki has some
macros to do that same kind of thing.

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> In environments where users have their hard and soft phones... How do you
> glue everything together? 
> 
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> |[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> |Rich Adamson
> |Sent: Martes, 21 de Junio de 2005 07:39 a.m.
> |To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> |Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Extension Configuration Best Practice
> |
> |> I would like to hear tips and tricks on extention config best 
> |> practices, for example, naming, etc. and most of all, how to 
> |deal with 
> |> extention that have a full time hardphone configured and 
> |assigned and 
> |> then a softphone connecting to the same extention, for example, one 
> |> employee has its hardphone on the office but sometimes when 
> |he travel, 
> |> he uses his softphone to work with, what happens when two 
> |phones have 
> |> the same user id and connect to the same asterisk? How are calls 
> |> routed or how to handle this kind of scenarios.
> |
> |In general terms and without being able to see how the 
> |extension is defined in sip.conf, the last phone to register 
> |with * will get the call.
> |
> |Assuming both the hard and soft phones register every hour, it 
> |is entirely possible the hard phone will get the call for the 
> |first 30 minutes and the soft phone for the next 30 minutes.
> |
> |
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