You can click (XML-rpc) to start a conference as well but you need to use a slightly different method. Instead of the conference dial command you use the originate command to the path to the phone, directing it to an extension for the conference.
Mike On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:53 PM, "Martin Steinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would the admin start the conference? Sounds like you cannot > invite > yourself to start but instead the admin has to dial in. Would be > nice to > just click > --martin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Campbell, > Alfred (BL60:9D30) > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:23 AM > To: Attardi, Joseph (BL60:9D30); sipx-dev > Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] Use cases for inviting people to FreeSWITCH > conferences. > > I don't think it's unreasonable assuming it clear in the UI. > > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Attardi, > Joseph (BL60:9D30) > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:35 AM > To: sipx-dev > Subject: [sipX-dev] Use cases for inviting people to FreeSWITCH > conferences. > > Yesterday afternoon, after talking with Woof! I found out that dialing > from within FreeSWITCH works. Previously I wasn't supplying a correct > address. It expects: > > sofia/hoth.us.nortel.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This solves several problems: The invited person doesn't get prompted > for a PIN, and superadmin won't have any problems doing it. > > There are two methods: > > (1) dial - Dials the number, but doesn't return until the call is > either > > picked up or goes unanswered. The current XmlRpcClientInterceptor > being > used times out after 5 seconds, so this might take some extra work. > > (2) bgdial - Returns immediately and dials in the background. This > works > > well with one caveat - the conference must be 'active', i.e. there > must > be at least one person in the conference already. > > When talking with Kevin about (2) in the IRC channel, he made a good > point - what use is it to invite someone to an empty conference? > Presumably, the one doing the inviting would be the organizer and > therefore would probably be on the conference call. > > So, here's my question: Is it reasonable to require at least one > person > be dialed in before the user can invite others? > > -- > Joe Attardi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
