Thanks Steve. I thought it is better that agi be run without any user interactions. When called, It will do its thing and give back the control to extension.conf. Is it not ?
Back to my question, lets say I want to use the digits collected by read() to dial out an extension. how do I do that ? cheers Sathya > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven > Critchfield > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] help needed with read() > > > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 10:12, Sathya wrote: > > asterisk*CLI> > > -= Info about application 'Read' =- > > > > [Synopsis]: > > Read a variable > > > > [Description]: > > Read(variable[|filename]): Reads a '#' terminated string of > digits from > > the user, optionally playing a given filename first. Returns > -1 on hangup or > > error and 0 otherwise. > > > > I need to collect a variable length digit string terminated by # and > > then pass those digits to an agi script. I can do this as follows > > (when I know the length of the string). > > > > exten => s,1,BackGround(please-enter-the-fourdigit-pin) > > exten => s,2,DigitTimeout,5 > > exten => s,3,ResponseTimeout,10 > > exten => _XXXX,1, agi, agiscript.agi > > I would like to use Read() here, like > > > > exten => s,1,BackGround(please-enter-the-pin) > > exten => s,2,Background(followed-by-pound) > > exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,5 > > exten => s,4,ResponseTimeout,10 > > exten => s,5,Read(${EXTEN}) > > exten => ???????/ > > First, if you are going to be going to AGI, why not just ask for the > digits inside of AGI? It seems like it is more appropriate that way. > Read is for when you can accomplish what you want without jumping to > AGI. > > Also, be wary that Background will allow a user to interupt the prompt > with a digit press. This is the normal expected behavior. You would want > to use playback. > > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users