[asterisk-users] Elementary question - accessing feature codes fromcell phone

[Roger Burton West]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:49:45PM -0400, John Regal wrote:

>Anyway, I think the idea of replicating the function into an extension will
>work. Any pointers on the best way to accomplish this? I created a new
>extension but am unsure what to do next. I thought about the FollowMe
>feature but I would have to hardcode the number and I want to be able to
>enter a forwarding phone number for the extension using my cell.

You could set up an extension match that triggers on

(feature ID)(access code)(extension)

as it might be, with an access code of 62889:

exten => _*7262889.,1,Set(FWDNUM=${EXTEN:8})

and then put FWDNUM into the astdb or however else you want to handle
it.