[asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

[Matt Gibson]

Thanks Tzafrir,

I knew about the ex girlfriend logic - but does that allow to be
looked up from the callerid database instead? I'd like to have it only
be one "goto" for direct dial, and one for the main menu instead of
having to manually input all those numbers, and add new ones when
required.

Thanks!
Matt G

On 04/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:14:30AM -0500, Matt Gibson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm about to modify my menu to allow for certain callers to bypass my
> > menu entirely, and just ring my phone. I don't need friends hearing my
> > business menu all the time.
> >
> > So, my idea was to use my already enabled callerid asterisk database
> > and lookup the callerid info from it, if it exists consider it a
> > friend and send them to a direct dial context. If the callerid is new,
> > not found, or unknown then send them to the regular menu. This would
> > be done with astdb, gotoif and lookupcidname commands I suppose.
> > Haven't looked into this end of it much yet.
> >
> > My question - is this the best/quickest way of going about this? I am
> > wondering if with many numbers in this database if it will add delay
> > to the call while it looks up to see where it needs to go.
> >
> > I've also seen things like the following, which is another option
> >
> > exten => s,1,GotoIf($["${CALLERIDNUM}" = "KNOWN (ie.
> > 5552221212)"]?direct-dial,s,1)
> > exten => s,2,GotoIf($["${CALLERIDNUM}" = "KNOWN (ie.
> > 5552221313)"]?direct-dial,s,1)
> > exten => s,3,Go on with the menu as regular
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Funny that they chose to use that, as Asterisk has a nicer and more
> efficient syntax for dial-plan decisions based on caller ID:
>
> exten => s/5552221212,1,Goto(direct-dial,s,1)
> exten => s/5552221313,1,Goto(direct-dial,s,1)
> exten =>s,1NoOp(Only other continue here...)
>
> This is also sometimes known as "ex-girlfriend logic" (as it was
> originally used to block someone's ex-girlfriend from calling).
>
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