[Asterisk-Users] Dial plan logic documentation?

[Andrew Furey]

Hi all,

What methods (software or even on paper) would you folks use /
recommend for the purposes of documenting how a dial plan is
constructed? ie. what extensions jump to other extensions, etc? This
is as a means of getting the "big picture" rather than having pages
and pages of printed extensions.conf output...

If you consider priorities as line numbers, extensions as
functions/subroutines and contexts as source files, you could compare
the dialplan to a regular programming language source... I've thought
of various things like flowcharts but I don't know of any really good
flowcharting programs. Besides, the analogy breaks down in that
programming languages don't generally jump to specific line numbers in
a function (whereas using priorities other than 1 is quite common).

Any thoughts?

Andrew

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