Re: [asterisk-users] Variable Scope Question
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Brent Davidson
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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?
Hello,
there is not a definite best way, however variable approach sounds ok.
All you need is channel variable as opposed to global variable.
Whenever call starts (internal or external), you can match mask of DID
or CallerID (for internal extensions) and just execute
Set(__company=A). Two underscores means that this variable will be
inherited in every child channel, so wherever the call will go (within
Asterisk of course) you will have variable ${company}
For more information please see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables
Regards,
Atis
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Re: [asterisk-users] Variable Scope Question
On Thursday 06 November 2008 10:12:11 Brent Davidson wrote:
If I have a global variable in my dialplan and I change it, does that
change immediately take affect for all calls that are active?
Here is my situation. The company I work for has two office groups that
share a building. The two offices are separate companies but support
one another and want to be able to transfer calls as if they were all on
the same phone system. Each company has 4 incoming voice lines and
calls on those lines should be sent to the appropriate main menu.
As it stands I have a context called internal that defines all of the
internal extensions for both offices then I have two virtually operator
contexts, two virtually identical mainmenu contexts and two virtually
identical admin contexts that allow them to record the appropriate
mainmenu greetings.
What I'd like to do would be to consolidate the mainmenu and operator
contexts and create a CompanyA and CompanyB context that sets a variable
for the appropriate company then jumps into the mainmenu or operator
context carrying that value so the correct greetings are played and the
correct operator extension is used. The variable would need to be one
that only affects the current call and no others since there is the
potential to have 4 calls coming in to each office at the same time.
Any ideas on the best way to handle this?
[companyA]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=A)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
[companyB]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=B)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
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Re: [asterisk-users] Variable Scope Question
Tilghman Lesher wrote:
[companyA]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=A)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
[companyB]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=B)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
I should probably also mention that I am using AEL for my dialplan.
(i'm a programmer and the AEL syntax feels more natural to me) . Does
the Set command work the same way in AEL as it does in the regular
.conf file?
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Re: [asterisk-users] Variable Scope Question
On Thursday 06 November 2008 11:41:08 Brent Davidson wrote:
Tilghman Lesher wrote:
[companyA]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=A)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
[companyB]
exten = _X.,1,Set(company=B)
exten = _X.,n,Goto(maincontext,${EXTEN},1)
I should probably also mention that I am using AEL for my dialplan.
(i'm a programmer and the AEL syntax feels more natural to me) . Does
the Set command work the same way in AEL as it does in the regular
.conf file?
AFAIK, yes, it does.
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