[asterisk-users] Lock extension from asterisk

[Andres Paglayan]

On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Doug Lytle wrote:

> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andres Jimenez wrote:
>>
>> exten => 8888,1,Answer()
>> exten => 8888,n,Set(me=${CALLERID(num)})
>> exten => 8888,n,Set(DB(${me}/locked)=1)
>>
>> exten => 9999,1,Answer()
>> exten => 9999,n,Set(me=${CALLERID(num)})
>> exten => 9999,n,VMAuthenticate(${me})
>> exten => 9999,n,Set(DB(${me}/locked)=)
>>
>>
>>
> This is good, but it can be done with just 1 extension:
>
> exten => 80*,1,Answer()
> exten => 80*,2,Set(LOCKED=${DB(phonelocked/${CALLERID(number)})})
> exten => 80*,3,GotoIf($["${LOCKED}" = "YES"]?80*,4:80*,101)
> exten => 80*,4,Set(DB(phonelocked/${CALLERID(number)})=NO)
> exten => 80*,5,Playback(de-activated)
> exten => 80*,6,Hangup()
> exten => 80*,101,Set(DB(phonelock/${CALLERID(number)})=YES)
> exten => 80*,102,Playback(activated)
> exten => 80*,103,Hangup()
>

Guys, very nice dialplan programming,
as a user's opinion, the two extension approach might be better.
so the user doesn't need to remember whether the phone is locked or not,
and accidentally lock it when the contrary was meant,
(unless you send some sip text to the phone display)


> Doug
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Andres Paglayan

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