[asterisk-users] Call parking

[John covici]

Yep, those are fine and as I say, it does actually park the call
because I can hang up and type 701 and get the call back, but my only
problem is it hangs up immediately instead of playing the
announcement.

on Wednesday 12/03/2008 "Eric \"ManxPower\" Wieling"(eric at fnords.org) wrote
 > By "legacy phone" I assume you have an analog card connected to your 
 > Asterisk server.  I've not used analog phones with Asterisk in many 
 > years, but IIRC you need transfer=yes and threewaycalling=yes in 
 > zapata.conf/chan_dhadi.conf.  You would then do a 2nd flash to complete 
 > the transfer.  On Polyom phones you do Transfer button/dial number/hear 
 > parking slot/Transfer button again/Hang up.
 > 
 > John covici wrote:
 > > I do the following from the legacy phone:  hit theflash and get a
 > > dialtone from the call, dial 70, the call is parked, but hangs up from
 > > me immediately -- isn't this an attended transfer?
 > > 
 > > on Wednesday 12/03/2008 "Eric \"ManxPower\" Wieling"(eric at fnords.org) wrote
 > >  > 
 > >  > John covici wrote:
 > >  > > OK, I can park the calls OK, but I don't get the announcement -- I am
 > >  > > using freepbx if that makes any difference.
 > >  > 
 > >  > If you park a call and do not hear the announcement then you are doing a 
 > >  > BLIND transfer, not an ATTENDED transfer.  You should be doing attended 
 > >  > transfers for parking.
 > >  > 
 > >  > If you park a call and hear the announcement and then the hold music 
 > >  > then you did not COMPLETE the attended transfer.
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
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