Hi Tony, I just reviewed the privacy feature you linked me to. While this is similar, it's really a totally separate beast for a few reasons.
The goal of my app is to provide a very simplistic way to have the server "track you down" at multiple phone numbers. When using asterisk as a home system, for one or two extensions, yeah this would be cake in the dialplan. However, I'm dealing with replacing a large commercial pbx, where we have 40 employees using this FindMe Feature. The idea of having an external conf file used for defining each employees findme numbers will help keep my already 1000+ line extensions.conf a little more sane. Especially since *all* extensions go through the standard dial macro. Without using the separate config file, I would have to have *multiple* dial statements, each reflecting each employees "find me" phone number(s). Yuck. The way I see it, you've got sip.conf, iax.conf, and voicemail.conf. everything is already separated, so there's no real reason to junk up the dialplan any more than it is (100 did's + 40+ extensions + IVR's + international calling, local calling etc..), so why not make a matching configuration file for external phone numbers or devices. I will however play with this new privacy feature, as it will undoubtedly help me in my coding efforts, being a newb and all. =) Thanks for your feedback, Brian D'Arcy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor Peirce Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Feedback needed! FindMe/FollowMe Feature Spec. Brian D'Arcy wrote: >I'd like to get some feedback from everyone on a FindMe/FollowMe spec >I've put together. Before you read on, let me say, I don't want this to >turn into a "it would be cool if it did this.., or that etc..". I'm >writing this to serve a very simple and basic function, and I want it to >do exceedingly well at just that for starters. > > Hi Brian, I've been looking for something like this and I think your efforts might overlap those of the work-in-progress Privacy option for app_dial. See http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000752 It would seem that if you were to instead add one more flag to the Dial app, that places calls in sequence rather than all at once, you would have everything you need. Perhaps it might even be better to work with Steve Murphy and turn his app_dial patch into a stand-alone app_followme? I just see an overlap here and you probably don't want to reinvent the wheel :) Regards, Trevor Peirce _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
