[Asterisk-Users] Digit timeouts vs includes in diaplan

[Peter Fern]

Don't know why you would have been experiencing pauses beforehand, but 
you can specify a digittimeout with:

Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=<#>)

Michaël Gaudette wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have a little situation with my dialplan, and I am wondering if what 
> I want is even possible.
>  
> Here it is: I have three contexts, context1 includes contexts2, and 
> context2 includes context3.    In other words, in context1 all 
> extensions of context2 and context3 are valid (and actually working, 
> so that's good).  I am using those context for the sake of code 
> clarity and reuse, and for this reason they are absolutely needed.
>  
> Most extensions work allright, EXCEPT in the cases where there are 
> "overlapping" extensions, for exemple 2, 23 and 235.  In a normal 
> dialplan, I would expect when dialing "2" that there would be a 
> timeout of 5 seconds before that extension is dialed.  When dialing 
> 23, another 5 second delay and when dialing 235 it would dial 
> immediately.  In other words, when I pressed "2" that extension would 
> not immediately be dialed but asterisk would wait for other digits.
>  
> In my case, the extensions are split as follows:
> [context1]
> include => context2
> exten => 2, 1,noop(2)
>  
> [context2]
> include => context3
> exten => 23,1,noop(23")
>  
> [context3]
> exten => 235,1,noop(235)
>  
> And the RESULT is that when I press "2" in context1, it doesnt even 
> give me a chance to dial the other digits, it simply connects me to 
> extension 2.  What if I wanted to put in 235???
>  
> Is this:
> 1) A bug?
> 2) WAD?
> 3) I missed something?
>
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