[asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Matt Gibson
Hi All, I'm about to modify my menu to allow for certain callers to bypass my menu entirely, and just ring my phone. I don't need friends hearing my business menu all the time. So, my idea was to use my already enabled callerid asterisk database and lookup the callerid info from it, if it exists

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:14:30AM -0500, Matt Gibson wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm about to modify my menu to allow for certain callers to bypass my > menu entirely, and just ring my phone. I don't need friends hearing my > business menu all the time. > > So, my idea was to use my already enabled cal

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Matt Gibson
Thanks Tzafrir, I knew about the ex girlfriend logic - but does that allow to be looked up from the callerid database instead? I'd like to have it only be one "goto" for direct dial, and one for the main menu instead of having to manually input all those numbers, and add new ones when required.

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Donnerstag, den 04.01.2007, 12:27 -0500 schrieb Matt Gibson: > Thanks Tzafrir, > > I knew about the ex girlfriend logic - but does that allow to be > looked up from the callerid database instead? I'd like to have it only > be one "goto" for direct dial, and one for the main menu instead of > ha

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Noah Miller
Let's say you use the Asterisk DB() stuff for your caller ids, storing them in a branch called "book" like book/16175551234 "John Doe" book/12125559876 "Jane Miller" Then you could go with a logic like exten => s,1,Set(CALLERID(name)=${DB(book/${CALLERID(num)})}) exten => s,2,GotoIf($["${CALLERI

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-04 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Donnerstag, den 04.01.2007, 17:47 -0500 schrieb Noah Miller: > > Let's say you use the Asterisk DB() stuff for your caller ids, storing > > them in a branch called "book" like > > book/16175551234 "John Doe" > > book/12125559876 "Jane Miller" > > > > Then you could go with a logic like > > > > e

Re: [asterisk-users] bypass menu for certain numbers?

2007-01-07 Thread Matt Gibson
Just want to comment that this worked great. Thanks! I even added in a little cepstral thing so it says "Hello , Please wait while we bypass the menu and dial directly" to make them feel special :) Matt G On 04/01/07, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 04