[asterisk-users] Waiting time to send the call

[Matt Riddell]

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Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 04:11:56 bilal ghayyad wrote:
>> I mean, my analoge phone connected to fxs port, I need to place a call. I
>> will pickup the handset and start dialing. What will happen if I delayed
>> little to dial a digit? Then it will be considered that number completed
>> and will be dialed (but actually it is not completed because I did not dial
>> all my digits).
>>
>> How can I increase the waiting time while dialing my digits, so if I
>> delayed, then I still have time to enter the digits (does not consider the
>> number completed until an enough time of stop dialing the digits)?
> 
> Simple.  Don't use patterns ending with "." or "!".  Instead, specify all of
> your patterns to the full digit length, and Asterisk will not signal a match
> until the pattern is complete.  When you use "." or "!", you're specifying
> that you don't know how long the pattern should be and that it CAN match
> at any point, once you've satisfied the pattern digits preceding that
> character.
> 
> I find that a good number of people are using "." in a pattern in situations
> that are entirely unnecessary (such as local numbers).  The only place I have
> a period in my dialplan is for when I'm dialling an international number, when
> I don't know in advance how long the number should be.  A little bit of
> planning goes a long way.

Here we have variable length cellphones as well as international.

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Matt Riddell
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