[Asterisk-Users] Re: how to dial extension with menu

[Jon Gabrielson]

I always use just Dial(Sip/2000,20) 
and it has always worked just fine for me.
The below example is not only unneccessary, but is broken.
In the below example, it will dial the sip device until it is answered
or a busy is received and then it will ring for 20 seconds for no 
reason before hanging up.  I doubt this is the desired behavior.


Jon.

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 11:05 am, Benjamin West wrote:
> Kamran,
>
> You'll need more than just Dial to make it work...
> You'll need to ring the phone and then wait for them to answer like this:
>
> exten => 12, 1, Dial(SIP/1200)
> exten => 12, 2, Ringing()
> exten => 12, 3, Wait(20)
> exten => 12, 4, Hangup()
>
>
> In my example here, dialing 12 at a prompt (or while you are
> waiting/background in your example) will dial SIP phone 1200.  Note
> that it is not enough to just dial, you must also Ring and Wait.  If
> you want to make the extension match the name of the phone, you'll
> need to do something like:
>
> exten => 3000, 1, Dial(SIP/3000)
> exten => 3000, 2, Ringing()
> exten => 3000, 3, Wait(20)
> exten => 3000, 4, Hangup()
>
> exten => 4000, 1, Dial(SIP/4000)
> exten => 4000, 2, Ringing()
> exten => 4000, 3, Wait(20)
> exten => 4000, 4, Hangup()
>
> You probably got that EXTEN business from an example that abstracts
> this process into something a bit easier to set up en masse.  In the
> example I gave you just now, dialing 3000 will ring phone registered
> as user 3000, start ringing it, wait for 20 seconds, and then hangup,
> if it is never answered.  If it is answered, it will hangup after the
> user does, just like you would expect.
>
> Good luck.
> Ben
>
> On 5/25/05, Kamran Ahmad <p_kami at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > i know there is example in extension.conf
> >
> > but that is not working in my case
> >
> > i am unable to get the extension pressed by user after
> > listening menu
> >
> > like how to get when 2000 pressed.
> >
> > because it is not dialing 2000
> >
> > exten => 6000,1,Background(k-enterexten)
> > exten => 6000,2,Wait(2)
> >
> >
> > exten=>3000,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN})
> > exten=>2000,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN})
> >
> >
> >
> >
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