[asterisk-users] - configure ring group

[A J Stiles]

On Wednesday 05 December 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I want have an information about ring group in asterisk (1.8.16 - centos
> 6.3)
> I have configured skypeforasterisk for incoming call to one extension
> and it works
> ..... [stuff deleted] .....
> at right time the internal ring are 1000, 2000 and 3000
> I have the extension from 1000 to 1005, 2000 to 2005 and from 3000 to 3005
> I can ring him all? I can group the configuration into a single string?

If you need to ring groups of phones, try something like

[globals]
ONES=SIP/1000&SIP/1001&SIP/1002&SIP/1003&SIP/1004&SIP/1005
TWOS=SIP/2000&SIP/2001&SIP/2002&SIP/2003&SIP/2004&SIP/2005
THREES=SIP/3000&SIP/3001&SIP/3002&SIP/3003&SIP/3004&SIP/3005

[some-context]
exten => 4000,1,Dial(${ONES}&${TWOS}&${THREES})
exten => 4000,n,Hangup()

That should make things more manageable.

Also:  Be sure to use *meaningful* variable names!  If your numbers are split 
according to department  (management, accounts, sales, purchasing, lab, qa, 
factory floor, training, &c.)  then name your groups accordingly.  If you get 
your dialplan right, you won't have to touch it for ages; and when you come 
back to have to edit it, you'll forget what anything was for.

-- 
AJS

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