Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail

[Michael George]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Jay Milk wrote:
Nice workaround.  I was under the impression that SetVar works
(according to the wiki) within the scope of a channel, but apparantly 
it
gets lost once you move context.  Bummer.
No, they will survive changes of context, but doing a Dial(Local/...) 
is essentially a whole new call and that didn't seem to work.

Or I did it wrong and I just was banging my head against a wall for 
nothing...  Either could be the case :)  But at least I have a way 
around it and it seems to work just as I desire.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Jay Milk wrote:
How about starting your macro with
SetVar(DialedExten=${MACRO_EXTEN})
and then going into voicemail with VoiceMail(u${DialedExten})
Well, I tried setting variables and saving them through the context
change, but the variable (DialedExten in your example) had no
value in
the Dial(Local/...) call.  The recursion messes all that up.
I did find the solution, though, and that is when in the
Macro context
and ready to go to voice mail, I check to see if the CHANNEL is a
loopback (${CHANNEL}:0:5 = Local) and if so, I do a
SoftHangup().  That
causes the Local channel to close down and actually return control to
the initial Macro context, where I can deal with the call just as I
wanted.
Thanks for your suggestion!
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding and voicemail
I am configuring call forwarding in our * setup, but I am having
trouble triggering the correct voicemail call.
When I have an extension, e.g. 201, forwarded to another,
e.g. 202,
my macro will call:
Dial(Local/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/n,30)
and once into the internal context, the macro is called again but
with MACRO_EXTEN set to 202 rather than 201.  So the context flow
of control
will "do it's thing" against 202.  What I want, though, is
to return
from that macro differently when the Dial() was called
against Local
rather than my internal extensions.  Then, have that
Dial(Local/...)
return with the priority set to either n+1 or n+101 so that I can
handle the flow into VM based on that original extension.
I'm thinking that CHANNEL, MACRO-PRIORITY, and
MACRO_OFFSET might be
helpful for a return from the subsequent call to the macro, but I
need to get information passed back through the Dial(Local/...)
call so that
I can know what happened with the dial to the forward target.
I would be satisfied if I can get the return from
Dial(Local/...) even
if I cannot differentiate a busy vs. timeout condition.
Most of the forwarding examples I've found are missing
parts of the
config file and/or do not seem to work quite right.
Thank you!
-Michael
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