[asterisk-users] How to park calls on a specific extension

[Steve Sobol]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Ken Williams wrote:

> I was able to set a program to speed dial the park extension.  Then a
> user just hits TNFR followed by the line I've programmed to speed dial
> park.

Heh. That's what I want to do, but when I dial the ValetParking extension 
now, not only do I not park the call, my ssh session to the Asterisk box 
freezes. I need to make sure I have a version of app_valetparking.so that 
is compatible with my Asterisk/Trixbox build.
 
> If you get the HOLD button to do this, I'd love to hear how :).  
> 
> 
> 
> From: Steve Sobol
> Sent: Fri 12/1/2006 5:15 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to park calls on a specific extension
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Brad Templeton wrote:
> 
> > Problem there is only some phones have line buttons, and when they have
> > them they are scarce and there's many things you might like to do with them,
> > and dedicating them to this would be low on my list.   Dedicating one speed
> 
> Eventually I am going to do a little sleuthing to find out what my 
> GXP-2000s' HOLD buttons send to Asterisk, and I'm going to make the HOLD 
> button park a call. :)
> 
> Until then, I'm going to have to use an interim solution.
> 
> Isn't there a separate "hold" dialplan context?
> 
> 

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