[asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Tilghman Lesher <
tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 10 July 2008 19:13:50 Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > It's a known problem.
> >
> > If you call Background() in a macro, then Asterisk will look for the
> > extensions to jump to in the CALLING Macro/context and NOT the Macro that
> > the Background() app was called in.
>
> I wouldn't call it a known problem.  It works precisely as it was designed
> to
> work.  It may not work the way that you want it to, but it works like a
> Macro:
> an independent set of instructions, with substitution, that acts as if it
> were
> invoked inline with the calling location.  That is why Background will
> match
> in the context of the calling location: it acts like it never left that
> original context (and, in a way, it really didn't).
>
> Subroutines are a different beast, and they are available with the Gosub/
> Return set of routines in app_stack.so.
>
> --
> Tilghman



See  this thread for info on  who  paid for ExternalIVR, who uses(used?) it
and some history.
http://www.asteriskguru.com/archives/image-vp255203.html


Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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