[asterisk-users] Free sitting

[Julian J. M.]

Freepbx has "devices and users" concept. It may be what you're looking for.
You can have your users "log in" in any phone with their extension
number and password. After that, all calls to his extension would ring
on that phone.

http://www.freepbx.org

Julian J. M.

On 8/6/07, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How would you implement free sitting ?
>
> The idea is to offer teachers the ability to share the same desk and
> hardphone : for instance, Mr Foo is teaching mechanics on mondays while Mr
> Bar is teaching english on wednesdays.
> Each has his own extension but use the same hardphone.
>
> 1. Does a program check a calendar or database somewhere to allocate a phone
> to a user (as teachers schedules are known in advance) ?
> 2. Every morning, users have to login (logoff is automatic during nighttime)
> ?
> 3. Users have to login/logoff themselves using a dedicated IVR ?
> 4. Users have to login/logoff themselves using a dedicated program on their
> PC ?
>
> Do you offer basic services (emergency and internals calls) between logins ?
> Do you use any phone specific menu ?