[asterisk-users] Cdr problem

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 09 March 2009 01:28:49 pm Anthony Francis wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Friday 06 March 2009 11:24:46 pm Hooman Peiro wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> I'm working with asterisk on a project and I found a problem with
> >> cdr_odbc. As we know, after answering each call a cdr event is raised
> >> which is saved in cdr_csv and cdr_odbc. but here my point is on
> >> cdr_odbc. some information, including start_time and end_time is given
> >> by cdr event but the problem is that these two information(start_time
> >> and end_time) is not getting save in cdr_odbc. I checked the source code
> >> and I found that by default it's not doing so. I need to query these two
> >> information, start time and end time, from cdr_odbc and I need your
> >> help.
> >> thanks
> >
> > You are partially incorrect.  The start time is indeed stored in the CDR,
> > although the column name is 'calldate'.  As for the end time, it can be
> > derived by adding 'duration' (which is in whole seconds) to the
> > 'calldate' column.
> >
> > Another solution that allows for retrieving both columns with their
> > native names (or completely different names, whatever you map it to) is
> > to use cdr_adaptive_odbc in 1.6.0 and higher.
>
> I have often thought, wouldn't it be better if the cdr config files
> allowed you to specify column names i.e.
> calldate => callstart_datetime
>
> Or whatever, the basic format being asteriskfieldname => db columnname.
>
> Just an idea..

Which is how cdr_adaptive_odbc already works.  ;-)

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Tilghman