ChanIsAvail seemed perfect until I tried it. It can tell when an extension isn't registered, but returns the same when an extension is in use as when it isn't. I suspect it works differently for at least the zap channels, but the for sip ones it telling us what we need to know.

Skippy

John covici wrote:

If you can do this is a dial plan have you tried chanisavail
application?  Seems like that should work for you.

on Wednesday 08/31/2005 "Eric \"Skippy\" Hope"([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> Hi all,
> > We've got a department that has 5 phones using a * 1.0.9 box. They need > to have an extension that rings all 5 phones at the same time. Getting > all of the phones to ring isn't a problem, but they are running into a > problem with the phones ringing in their ears when they are already on a > call. > > Example: > Caller one calls the queue, all of the phones rings, and employee one > picks up. > Caller two calls the queue, all of the phones ring including the one > that Employee one is talking on, and both Caller one and Employee one > are distracted. > > We're locked into using the current softphones, and there doesn't seem > to be a way to limit them to just one line. > > We've tried both a true queue with the strategy set to ringall and just > having the exten => Dial(SIP/ext1&SIP/ext2&etc). We also tried using > SetGroup and CheckGroup(1), but that resulted in only one call reaching > the phones at a time, even though the other 4 were free. > > What we really want to have happen is for all 5 phones to ring at once, > except the ones that are already in use. It seems like there should be > an easy way to do this, but I'm not seeing it. Anyone got any hints? > > Skippy
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