[Asterisk-Users] background / goto commands

2004-04-14 Thread Steven Kokinos
I'm working on setting up a macro that will allow users to call their own DID number, and when they hear their voicemail greeting hit the * key and be prompted for their password to check vmail. For some reason though the background command isn't working as I'd expect it to: [macro-vmessage]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] background / goto commands

2004-04-14 Thread Chris A. Icide
On 02:44 PM 4/14/2004, Steven Kokinos wrote: I'm working on setting up a macro that will allow users to call their snip exten = 1,*,Macro(checkmessage,${ARG1}) exten = 2,*,Hangup try: exten = *,1,. exten = *,2,. instead. snip Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I'm

Re: [Asterisk-Users] background / goto commands

2004-04-14 Thread Steven Kokinos
Already tried that, doesn't do anything. It apears what is happening is that Background interprets any key as the beginning of a user dialing an extension from the default context of that extension, so invariably it jumps out of the macro into the main context. Can't figure out how to keep it