On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:28, Shoval Tomer wrote: > Hi, > > Our current PBX (Panasonic) has a setting that enables users to > "snatch" calls ringing at other extensions. > > > > I'm not sure snatching is a correct term for this so let me elaborate. > > Let's say you sit in a room with five other people. Each one has it's > own extension. One person goes out. As soon as he leaves the room his > phone starts ringing. > > The other guys in the room want to answer his phone for him and take a > message, but they won't get up for it…. > > I just pick up our extension, hit *40, and the call is automatically > transferred to my extension. > > Is this doable with Asterisk? > > Is it possible to divide extensions into groups – like a group per > room – so I won't snatch a call from another room in the building, > that I wasn't even aware was ringing…
You want to look into call groups and pickup groups. To pickup the call you use *8#. from /usr/src/asterisk/configs/zapata.conf.sample ; ; Ring groups (a.k.a. call groups) and pickup groups. If a phone is ringing ; and it is a member of a group which is one of your pickup groups, then ; you can answer it by picking up and dialing *8#. For simple offices, just ; make these both the same ; callgroup=1 pickupgroup=1 -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
