<tt><font size=2>asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote on 09/12/2014
09:07:36 AM:<br>
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> I have been researching software for documenting pbx call flow paths<br>
> and I was just wondering if anyone out there is using anything they
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> have found particularly useful or cool.</font></tt>
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> I am looking for something preferably visual that the average end
<br>
> user can follow. So far the best thing I have come up with is making<br>
> a diagram with a decision tree in visio but its very time consuming
<br>
> to build this by hand for every customer. We would like to be able
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> to provide every customer a diagram so they can easily understand
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> the path that a call takes, what conditions are checked and what <br>
> actions are taken based on those conditions.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> <br>
> A large portion of my asterisk installs are for non profit or <br>
> charitable organizations so while I'm not completely fixed on a free<br>
> solution, if it isn't free the cost needs to be relatively low or
at<br>
> least be a multi-tenant solution that could at least be used
for <br>
> multiple customers.</font></tt>
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> For most of our installs we manage everything via CLI, but for a few<br>
> orgs with tech savvy people we have been able to setup freepbx for
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> them and let them make simple changes. I was thinking with freepbx
<br>
> maybe there could even be a module that takes the freepbx <br>
> configuration and generates visuals based on reading the <br>
> configuration, this would be really slick although not a complete
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> answer as we have many installs that do not have freepx.</font></tt>
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> Anyway, just wanted to get some input from others and put my ideas
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> so far out there, if you have any recommendations or experiences to
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> share feel free to reply on or off-list.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I see where you are going with this, but haven't seen
anything that can analyze a dial plan and generate a flow document. The
closest I know of is something like Apstel's Visual Dialplan (</font></tt><a href=http://www.apstel.com/><tt><font size=2>http://www.apstel.com</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>)
which is meant to go in reverse (visually create the dialplan and it creates
the Asterisk code). I have never used it so can't comment on if it can
print out the information in the form you are wanting.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I can see that what you want would be difficult to
create, but would be very handy. I am interested to see if anyone else
knows of such software.</font></tt>