[asterisk-users] Single ringer phone for incoming calls, that anyone can answer

[Paul Hales]

Setting up pick/callgroups really tightly is the way to go - one of our
techs here does that all the time for clients.

PaulH

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 20:51 +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on the following:
> 
> Incoming calls to our office come in on a SIP trunk. Since all our  
> offices/desks are in close proximity, we would like just a single  
> phone to ring when a call comes in instead of ringing every person's  
> phone.
> 
> Currently we've got this working by having all the phones in a  
> callgroup/pickupgroup and incoming calls ring the 'ringer phone'  
> extension, then we can use the *8 to pickup the incoming call from  
> any other phone. The problem though, is that if two people in the  
> office call each other, *8 from a third phone also picks up their  
> call, which is not the desired effect.
> 
> So in essence, I'm asking whether there's a better way to pickup an  
> incoming call from our external SIP trunk, whilst its ringing only a  
> specific extension, without picking up overlapping internal calls?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
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