On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:01, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Tilghman Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it's a pin-required conference, you will hear the conference > > number prior to being prompted to enter the associated pin. > > Obviously, in this case, any such conference would be static, so > > the pin would be pre-assigned in the config file. This might be > > useful if you ran a number of conferences, but did not want just > > anybody to be able to access them (i.e. in order to access the > > conferences, possibly dial-able from anywhere, you had to know > > the associated pin). > > > > You can also select an empty dynamic conference, with pin, by > > combining the flags 'eD', in which case you will be told the > > conference number prior to you specifying the pin. Or you could > > simply select an empty dynamic conference (no pin), with flags > > 'ed'. > > I'm trying hard to understand the usefulness of these features. It > looks like, from what I've read here, if you dial an extension that > routes to MeetMe(e), it will put you in an empty conference and > tell you the number. Presumably for anyone else to join the same > conference, you then have to tell them the number, e.g. by email, > IM or another phone call, and they then have to dial a different > extension which routes to MeetMe(without e). And if the empty > conference also has a PIN, does the first user need a list of > conference numbers to PINs so he can enter the correct PIN when > told the conference number?
That's an administrative matter, not a detail of implementation. You could, of course, have the same PIN for multiple conferences. > This all seems rather cumbersome, and I haven't had the chance to > experiment with this feature yet, so the above probably highlights > both (a) my lack of understanding, and (b) the lack of > documentation! If the feature doesn't make any sense to you, then don't use it. For a customer of ours, though, it was necessary to have this feature. I would suggest actually trying out the feature a couple times, if your goal is to learn how to use it. -Tilghman _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
