[Asterisk-Users] Parking a call in manager interface

[Thorben Jensen]

> > There's now a growing group of us who make manager-based applications
> > that wish parking worked properly.
> >
> > Maybe if we get a few more we will have enough to bombard the
> bugtracker!
> >
> > I guess seeing as we're all programmers one of us should make a patch.
> > What I'm thinking is:
> >
> > Application: ParkCall
> > Synopsis: ParkCall(announceChannel, parkChannel)
> > Description: If you call ParkCall (from the dialplan or the manager
> > interface), you can pass in the channel to announce the parking
> > destination to as well as the channel that you would like to have
> > parked.  Bla bla bla
> 
> Well, I think this app already exists, its called parkandannouce
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Cmd+parkandannounce
> For the manager you could create an extension that will execute
> parkandannounce and then use another extension to unpark, works for me
> using FOP.

The problem with ParkAnnounce is that you need to make changes to the dial
plan, when building apps for the manager interface you need to be able to do
it without having to ask people to modify their dial plan.

Thorben