[asterisk-users] Match a Numer - then continue with dialplan

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Sikkema [mailto:andreas.sikkema at bbeyond.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Match a Numer - then continue with
> dialplan
> 
> 
> > Bzzt. In order to call SetVar, I have to match the extension 
> > dialled. When that happens, there is NO WAY to continue 
> > searching the dialplan after that point for another extension 
> > to match.
> 
> You can't use a generic extension and search a database table for 
> $EXTEN <-> callerid relation and then set it? 
Yes, I can do that. However, in order to do all that, I have to match an extension first. Same problem as before.

> 
> Your diallingplan is _so_ different to what we do, yet what you 
> want to do is pretty much the same to what we do all the time.
I dunno about that. I think we're the only crazy ones offering company masked caller id, or else there'd be lots of people asking how to do it.

> 
> But our Asterisk boxes have _no_ sip CPE's registered to them and 
> our diallingplan is littered with database lookups. We have no 
> static stuff in our dialingplan. And we have quite a number of 
> users.
If you have no statuc stuff in your dialplan, how do you use the 'include =>' statement? We don't have users... we have companies. It's a hosted IPT service... and to make the problem even more insane, each company has multiple levels of organisational structure.