I think it's something that has to be handled in Asterisk as well. The
polycom has a facility for providing this information, but Asterisk needs to
be able to capture and store the presence/status information for the set.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Osmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: February 8, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: Jim Van Meggelen
> Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Any ideas on how to query a set 
> for it's status before trying to send a call to it?
> 
> This would be ideal for people that had their phones set as 
> part of a queue.
> If a queue member had their phone forwarded to an outside 
> line all queue calls get sent there after ringing for a quick seconds.
> 
> Really messed things up (until you disable the button).
> 
> If you could query the phone to see if it's forwarded you 
> could tell the Queue not to call it.
> 
> Maybe this is something to submit to Polycom?
> 
> Chad 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: February 7, 2007 1:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [on-asterisk] Any ideas on how to query a set for 
> it's status before trying to send a call to it?
> 
> I want to put something in the dialplan that would check the 
> set to see if it was call forwarded before trying to place a 
> call to it. If the set is not forwarded, then ring it, but if 
> it is forwarded, then grab that info and use it elsewhere.
> 
> This is for Polycom sets, but could apply elsewhere I 
> suppose. The trick I guess would be to ask the set "what 
> would happen if" without actually sending the invite. Kind of 
> a pseudo-invite, if you will.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jim
> 
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