[asterisk-users] Populate CDR issues

[Mike Diehl]

On Monday 12 December 2011 4:28:17 am Harel Cohen wrote:
> Danny,
> 
> Why would you think this is a "circumvent"? I'm using a nice feature of 1.8
> where I can create any CDR field I like and populate it by using the
> CDR(<fieldname>) function. While all other fields that I created are
> populated properly (however before the 'dial' commences) it seems like at
> this point of the dial plan the CDR is closed for editing even though I
> configured endbeforehexten=no in my cdr.conf.

I agree, this is a perfectly valid use of the CDR.  I do the same thing, btw.  
I think what you are seeing is that when your call starts, Asterisk creates a 
record, either in memory, or in a db transaction.  When the call is torn down, 
the record is updated and committed to the db.  The down-shot is that any 
changes you make to the db record get clobbered by this last update.

I ended up making some of my updates in the hang-up phase via the "h" 
extension.  See if that will do what you need.



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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.