On Thursday 06 November 2008 10:12:11 Brent Davidson wrote: > If I have a global variable in my dialplan and I change it, does that > change immediately take affect for all calls that are active? > > Here is my situation. The company I work for has two office groups that > share a building. The two offices are separate companies but support > one another and want to be able to transfer calls as if they were all on > the same phone system. Each company has 4 incoming voice lines and > calls on those lines should be sent to the appropriate main menu. > > As it stands I have a context called internal that defines all of the > internal extensions for both offices then I have two virtually operator > contexts, two virtually identical mainmenu contexts and two virtually > identical admin contexts that allow them to record the appropriate > mainmenu greetings. > > What I'd like to do would be to consolidate the mainmenu and operator > contexts and create a CompanyA and CompanyB context that sets a variable > for the appropriate company then jumps into the mainmenu or operator > context carrying that value so the correct greetings are played and the > correct operator extension is used. The variable would need to be one > that only affects the current call and no others since there is the > potential to have 4 calls coming in to each office at the same time. > > Any ideas on the best way to handle this?
[companyA] exten => _X.,1,Set(company=A) exten => _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1) [companyB] exten => _X.,1,Set(company=B) exten => _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1) -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users