I agree with Mike. I am fine with the way it currently works but I don't have a whole lot of forwarding going on.
Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 2/18/2010 11:04 AM, Burden, Mike wrote: > Could that be a configurable setting, so that it can be configured by > the Administrator? > > That sounds like something were either way you set it, someone will want > the opposite... > > > Mike Burden > Lynk Systems, Inc > e-mail: [email protected] > Phone: 616-532-4985 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dale Worley > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:02 PM > To: sipX-users > Subject: [sipx-users] A proposed change in directed call pickup > > We are considering changing the behavior of directed call pickup. > > Suppose a user, say 111, has (immediate) call forwarding set to another > extension, say 222. When a call comes in for 111, the call will be sent > to 222 and will start ringing there. > > If someone on another phone dials *78-111, the system will send a > SUBSCRIBE message to phone 111 to find the call ringing there. > Currently, the call forwarding affects the SUBSCRIBE, and it will get > copied to 222. So the incoming call (which was to 111 but got sent to > 222) will be found, and the call pickup will succeed. > > Of course, this is a bit weird, since the call wasn't ringing on 111 at > all. I figure that since the call was ringing on 222, someone who > wanted to pick it up would dial *78-222. > > The change we are considering is to prevent the SUBSCRIBE from being > forwarded as a call would be. This has the advantage and disadvantage > that a *78 call would only query the phone(s) for the extension in > question, and would not search to any phone that was forwarded from the > extension. > > In the above case, this change would make things work more like one > would expect. > > The disadvantage (I think) would be in a situation like this: extension > 111 is forwarded after 10 seconds to 222. An incoming call rings on > 111, and another user calls *78-111. But just at that moment, the call > is forwarded to 222. Without the change, the call would be picked up. > But with the change, the call won't be picked up, as phone 222 won't be > queried. (If the user tried again with *78-222, that would work.) > > Does this change sound like an improvement or a misfeature? > > Dale > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
