I suppose I could do something like this or put a cheap Polycom phone in place with forwarding rules set on it for both incoming and do not disturb, but it seems like a waste of money to buy one phone for that purpose, not to mention expecting it to stay powered on, etc. It just seems like a hacky workaround, that's all.
As mentioned in the JIRA issue, this is a pretty common feature on most PBX systems and while I am not as familiar with the project as the developers that reside in this mailing list (nor am I a programmer, far from it), it seems with FreeSWITCH running the show for Auto Attendants that it wouldn't take too much coding time to implement this feature. Thoughts? Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:32 -0500, Josh Patten wrote: > >> I realize there is an issue in Jira pertaining to this ( >> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-4821 ) but I was wondering if any >> thought had been put into implementing user invokable day/night auto >> attendant services. It really makes sense for departments with variable >> hours. >> >> I don't think there would be too much work involved to get this working >> in FreeSWITCH, though I could be wrong? Also, if you want this feature, >> go vote on it. >> > > Would this work: > > Create an auto-attendant or mailbox or whatever you want when there's no > one to answer the phone. > > Set the forwarding on the user who aught to answer the phone to forward > to that after a nice long timeout. > > Set that users phone to present multiple calls (so that it doesn't roll > over when two calls come close together). > > When you want to go into unattended mode, press the Do Not Disturb > button on the phone - all calls will now roll over immediately. > > > _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
