On 12/04/2015 01:00 PM, Stian Hvatum wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem with an accompanying solution that I wish to share, but I am
not sure if it is valuable enough or correct enough to be suggested as a patch
to Asterisk.
When SIP-phones are members of a queue, they tend to accumulate "missed calls" unless the C-flag is
applied. When the C-flag is applied there is no missed calls at all, since all hangups are marked as
"answered elsewhere". I have created and attached a patch which makes the C-flag "answer
elsewhere" all hangups that are caused by app_queue canceling the dial or the call is really answered
elsewhere, but sets normal cause when caller actually hangs up before the call is answered.
I know the patch alters the behavior of the C-flag, and altering behavior of existing flags is
probably a bad thing. I can try to create a new flag for this "missed call on caller
hangup"-behavior if that is of any value. Also, I don't have much experience with the Asterisk
source code, so if I break something by setting normal cause here I would be very happy if anyone
would give me a hint about it. The only problem I have seen so far is that if the caller hangs up
during an announcement or between app_queue's dial outs, the call is not marked as missed (as the
previous call was "answered elsewhere" and no new calls went out to the phones).
The code is running a few places without causing any trouble as far as I can
tell. I wrote this after a customer had a few thousand missed calls on his
queue-connected phone...
Best regards and thanks for a great project!
Stian Hvatum
In my opinion, if the c-flag is set and the caller hangs up, you are
correct that the "answered elsewhere" status should not be applied. I
also think the "answered elsewhere" status should not be applied if a
call to a single queue member times out before the member answers the
call. The c-flag behavior should only be applied when multiple queue
members' phones are ringing at the same time, and Asterisk has to cancel
the outgoing call to certain members due to the call being answered by
someone else.
I think the change you are suggesting would be welcome.
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