[Asterisk-Users] Re: HINT

[Brian Capouch]

Thorben Jensen wrote:
>>Could you please give us some more detail as to what you did, in terms of 
>>configuring the hint, and specifically what changes in the behavior of the 
>>running server-phone interaction as a result?
> 
> 
> 
> You need to set the hint for the phone when the phone is being dialed like 
> this:
> 
> exten => 201,hint,SIP/201
> exten => 201,1,macro(dial-sip,201)
> 
> It's important that you write the full name of the phone "SIP/201" as you 
> can't use substitutions like this SIP/${EXTEN} - it took me a long time to 
> figure that out.
> 

Yes, but then what *happens* between the server and the phone due to 
having specified the hint.

I suspect others share my lack of comprehension as to what that then 
buys you--what then can you do that you can't do without that line in 
the dialplan.

Thx.

B.