[asterisk-users] turn off auto-seek extention - force use timeout

[Paul Hales]

Creative use of the 'read' application?

PaulH


On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:12 -0800, Justin Killen wrote:
> I have an application where a call-in user is prompted to enter an
> identification number for schedule information.  That id number is
> setup as an extension, and if that extension doesn’t exist, it tells
> them that they are not scheduled, then loops back to ask for the id
> number again.  My problem is that asterisk pre-emptively goes to the i
> extension (invalid) too early depending on available extensions.  For
> example, if I put in id number 4768, and there is only 4790 and 4732,
> it will push to the invalid extension on the 6, then the “not
> scheduled” playback message (a cepstral command) gets cancelled out
> from the DTMF push of the 8.  So, if I put in 4768, I get prompted to
> enter an id number.  What I would like to do is turn off this feature,
> so that the number input does not get evaluated until after the
> timeout (preferably configurable from the extensions.conf file).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -Justin
> 
> 
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