[asterisk-users] Playing a sound file on handset pickup

[Matt]

How about put it in the dial plan?  So anytime you try to make an
outbound call it would play a reminder saying that the alternate
greeting is enabled.   You could just use a DB variable.

On 12/13/06, Mailinglisten <mailinglisten at tdb-mv.de> wrote:
> John French wrote:
> > I've added the ability for a user to record a custom message associated
> > with a special IVR menu for occasions when business will be closed for
> > some non-standard amount of time (Maybe 4 days at Christmas...)   They
> > just dial 800, record the message then hang up and dial 801 to enable
> > it.  Presumably, when they return after the holiday, they should dial
> > 802 to disable it and return to the normally scheduled menus.  But they
> > will most likely forget so I'd like to set up some type of reminder
> > functionality; perhaps playing a message back to them stating that the
> > custom message is still enabled before giving them dialtone or something
> > to the same effect.  Is this possible and can anyone offer
> > recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> Why not just add that functionality to the s extension? If no extension
> is given, they will end up there, won't they? So if that "I'm not here"
> message is set up, and the client picks up the phone, we assume that
> he/she is back and thus delete the notification without notice.
>
> - Fabian Foerster
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