[Asterisk-Users] cdr records on transfer

[Christian Benke]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:53:30 +0100 (CET)
"Christian Benke" <a0305292 at unet.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> i'm trying to set up transfer without using the respective
> asterisk-function but with the built-in phone functions. my goal is to
> have the first callleg billed to the caller and the second callleg to the
> callee, who is responsible for the forward(and i can't bill a unknown
> caller anyways)
>
> so far it's working without problems, but my cdr's are messed. with the
> help of the RDNIS-variable i've been able to set seperate records for each
> call-leg with the correct accountcodes, but the billsec are still written
> to the first callleg, the second callleg(originated by callee) receives 0
> billsec, which is not what i want. the callee(the one who forwards the
> call), should be billed.
> since the local-channel is passed to the originating channel, it is clear
> that the billsec are added to the callers record.
> but is there any way to influence this??? since the phones have this
> functionality built-in, why should i ask my clients to use some
> keycombination to transfer calls and prevent transfer-by-button? As far as
> i've understood, the /n-option for the local-channel would do the
> behaviour i want - but how could i add it on a "moved temporarily"?
>
> kind regards
> christian


can i assume this is a known problem? Can anyone at least confirm it? Or
is my report unclear?

I really appreciate any comments, this is a huge problem for me as my
whole concept depends on it!

Thanks!!!
Chris