[asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Ernie Dunbar
This past holiday weekend has resulted in some real groaners when it comes to bugs in our dialplan, making obvious the need for some changes in our procedures. First, our hours of operation for Christmas Eve, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Eve had changed with little to no notice. Okay,

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Doug Lytle
Ernie Dunbar wrote: This appears to boil down to always remember to test it at the time that it becomes relevant. But if I was the kind of person who always remembered to do things at the right time, then there would never be a need for computers to do jobs like this in the first place. I

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime? This past holiday weekend has resulted in some real groaners when it comes to bugs in our dialplan, making obvious the need for some changes in our procedures. First

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Logan Bibby
I'm a fan of your method. I haven't had good luck with GotoIfTime in the past. A lot of my dialplan is actually handled by an AGI script. I've always found that to be the easiest. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Doug Lytle supp...@drdos.info wrote: Ernie Dunbar wrote: This appears to boil

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Mitch Claborn
We bypass this problem by storing business hours and holidays in a database table. We use an ODBC call to return whether or not to play the day or night greeting based on the database. We also store the name of a custom greeting file to play. The database is fairly easy to manipulate with

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mitch Claborn Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:06 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime? We bypass this problem by storing business hours and holidays in a database table

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ernie Dunbar maill...@lightspeed.cawrote: This past holiday weekend has resulted in some real groaners when it comes to bugs in our dialplan, making obvious the need for some changes in our procedures. First, our hours of operation for Christmas Eve,

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 27/12/2012 3:14 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ernie Dunbar maill...@lightspeed.ca mailto:maill...@lightspeed.ca wrote: This past holiday weekend has resulted in some real groaners when it comes to bugs in our dialplan, making obvious the need for some

Re: [asterisk-users] How do *you* test your changes to dialplans ruled by GotoIfTime?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark Murawski
On 12/27/2012 07:36 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: On 27/12/2012 3:14 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ernie Dunbar maill...@lightspeed.ca mailto:maill...@lightspeed.ca wrote: This past holiday weekend has resulted in some real groaners when it comes to bugs in our