Matt, Both of those suggestions worked perfectly.
Thanks! Ricky Hartmann | PO Box 1354 Jackson, NJ 08527 Phone - (732) 580-5853 | eFax - (716) 809-3073 On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Matthew Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Ricky Hartmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I've been fighting with this all morning, and I feel like this should be > a > > relatively simple task, but I just can't get it to work. I currently > have a > > very basic asterisk v11.6 setup with a single extension (a Bria > softphone) > > and a single sip trunk to my carrier. > > > > What I'm trying to accomplish is simply adding the asterisk generated > > SIPCALLID of the leg between asterisk and the carrier to the CDR when > it's > > written. (This is in addition to the SIPCALLID of the original call leg, > > which I've already added.) I've been able to print the SIPCALLID for the > > carrier leg to the CLI if I jump into a Macro or Gosub from the Dial > command > > (using the M or b options respectively), but that's about it. > > > > From what I can tell, this should be easily accomplished with variable > > inheritance, but based on what I'm seeing during test that seems to be a > one > > way relationship, as updates in a child channel don't seem to reach the > > parent. Am I missing something? Is there a better way to go about this? > > > > The few questions I've found on forums and mailing list archives on this > > subject are all from 2007 and earlier, so I'm hoping something new has > come > > along in the last few years and I just haven't found it anywhere. Can > > anyone help? > > > > You're correct - variable inheritance only goes in one direction, from > the parent to the child. Since the child channel is going to be Party > B in the CDR, variables set on it are unlikely to show up. > > I can think of a few options: > > 1) Use the userfield on the outbound channel to store the SIPCALLID. A > little known fact of the userfield is that, on two channels in a > bridge together, the userfields are concatenated together using a ';' > as a delimiter. > 2) Use the MASTER_CHANNEL function to reach back to the parent channel > and set the CDR variable there. > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Jordan > Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager > 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA > Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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