[asterisk-users] re-writing the dial plan - some hints please

[Rushowr]

You can't use that realtime field in an include statement... However, you
could use context names like caller-conference and caller-longdistance and
then call the context dynamically with Goto(caller-${key}).

Otherwise, you're going to have to do it with logic routing. May I suggest
at LEAST using Subroutines (end the subroutines with the Return command, and
call them with Gosub), or maybe even doing a little logic magic with GotoIf
statements? Of course, all of that logic routing can be a pain, but to
further alleviate my personal dialplan code pains, I use AEL2 which makes
the code a little more like Perl/C/PHP code, and allows for If/Else
statements, etc...

Just my 0.02.


SKM

>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>Ronald Wiplinger
>Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:03 AM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: [asterisk-users] re-writing the dial plan - some hints please
>
>My dialplan grew over the last months and I want to 
>restructure it. What hints do you have for me?
>
>There are some points I want to do, but none of my tests worked.
>
>I use realtime, and have there a field called key, which can 
>have several flags.
>E.g. a flag if the user is allowed to use a conference room, 
>can call long distance, can call overseas, can call local 
>pstn, different tariffs, ....
>
>I tried something like:
>[test-key]
>exten => _.,1,NoOp(variable key is ${key}) exten => 
>_.,2,Set(flag_int =${CUT(key,,1)}) exten => 
>_.,3,Set(tarif=${CUT(key,,2)}) exten => _.,4,NoOP(flag_int is 
>${flag_int} and tarif is ${tarif})
>
>and wanted to use this variables in the next context, by using 
>include statments, but it did not work.
>
>[caller]
>include => test-key
>include => A
>include => B
>...
>
>
>
>The idea was to set at each entrance point first all flags and 
>variables. Than I can use a common dialplan.
>If a flag is set, than I could include another context. 
>Unfortunately there is no IF()include. I might be able to set 
>a jump in each context to the end if the flag is not set.
>
>Any idea how I can do that?
>Any ideas of structuring the dialplan more efficiently?
>
>bye
>
>Ronald
>
>
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