[asterisk-users] Dailplan code for holiday detection?

[Steve Murphy]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:11 -0800, Dan Austin wrote:
> This has been on my ToDo list far too long.
> 
> I have a small call-center setup, with basic
> time of day/day of week validation before putting
> callers in the queues.
> 
> With the holidays upon us, I need to add check to
> see if 'today' is a holiday so I do not put callers
> in unmanned queues.  Due to how the agents work, I have
> to allow joinwhenempty.
> 
> Does anyone have a snippet of dialplan code, perhaps using
> Astdb, to check it 'today' is a listed holiday?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 


Here is a little script I use on my home system;
There are others on 

http://voip-info.org/wiki/view/AEL+Example+Snippets


               ifTime(*|*|20-25|dec) 
               { 
                       Playback(greetings/christmas); 
               }
               else ifTime(*|*|31|dec) 
               {  
                       Playback(greetings/newyear); 
               }
               else ifTime(*|*|1|jan)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/newyear);
               }
               else ifTime(*|*|14|feb)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/valentines);
               }
               else ifTime(*|*|17|mar) 
               {
                       Playback(greetings/stPat);
               }
               else ifTime(*|*|31|oct) 
               {
                       Playback(greetings/halloween);
               }
               else ifTime(*|mon|15-21|jan) 
               {
                       Playback(greetings/mlkDay);
               }
               else ifTime(*|thu|22-28|nov)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/thanksgiving);
               }
               else ifTime(*|mon|25-31|may)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/memorial);
               }
               else ifTime(*|mon|1-7|sep)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/labor);
               }
               else ifTime(*|mon|15-21|feb)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/president);
               }
               else ifTime(*|sun|8-14|may)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/mothers);
               }
               else ifTime(*|sun|15-21|jun)
               {
                       Playback(greetings/fathers);
               } 
               else 
               {
                       Playback(greetings/hello);   // None of the above? Just a plain hello will do
               }


murf


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