[Asterisk-Users] How to make groups of extensions ???

[Rich Adamson]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:25, Aaron Daniel wrote:
>> Yeah, I agree with Chuck.  User's on our system are put into various
>> contexts depending on who they can call... local, long distance, or
>> internal only.
> 
> And *all* of those people are placing calls *in* to asterisk to get into those 
> contexts.  :-)
> 
> When you pick up a telephone wired into an FXS port; asterisk sees an incoming 
> request for dialtone.
> 
> When you pick up your SIP phone and dial; it must match a friend or user entry 
> or you'll never get in.
> 
> When your IAX softphone client makes a call, again, it must match a friend or 
> user entry.
> 
> These are *all* incoming calls as far as Asterisk is concerned.  You get 
> dumped into a specific part of the dialplan (the context specified) and you 
> tell Asterisk what they can dial.  Internal extensions, external peers, Zap 
> channels or even applications... the second half of all of this is the 
> outgoing part, when Asterisk Dial()s.

I think if you read the OP's original six posts, he's trying to address 
both incoming and outgoing calls.  Eg., wants to reserver zap/4 for the 
boss for both. Then he had two other groups also that he wanted to only 
allow outgoing on selected zap channels.

Not that difficult to address both.