Wilton Helm wrote: > Thanks for engaging with me on this. I picked up the book and I see > what you mean about Appendix B. I had under-appreciated it probably > because of a paradigm shift I need to make. I think you meant > Appendix E rather than F for dialplan. > > I still am not quite on the same page with you, though. There are a > lot of commands that aren't function calls that go into various config > files. The most basic and obvious one is > exten http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+howto+dial+plan > There must be a hundred of these and I don't know where they are > listed with all acceptable parameters and ranges and what they do and > why. There are examples to get one started, but I don't think I can > put my hands on even a definitive definition of exten. Am I making > any sense? Maybe these are called variables or something. all the "parameters" as you call them are the dialplan commands and functions
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20config%20extensions.conf exten => 123,1,Answer exten => 123,2,Playback(tt-weasels) exten => 123,3,Voicemail(44) exten => 123,4,Hangup if the number 123 is called, step1: answer the call step2: run the application called Playback, using the tt-weasels sound file (this plays tt-weasels to whoever called 123) step3: run the voicemail application for mailbox 44 step4: hangup the call iow, 123 is the called extension, and steps 1,2,3,4 are then executed Julian > > I'm scared to even look for the setting for an NT1 ISDN BRI, which is > the mountain I have to climb next. > > Wilton > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users