Call Confirmation with Forward/Find Me Folow Me
mattdarnell

Mon, 12/17/2007 - 18:26 | Call Confirmation with Forward/Find Me Folow Me

Our customers would like to be able to confirm calls when using CF/FMFM.
The problem is when one of the calls goes to voice mail...like if a cellular phone is off or out of range.
Levels of sofistication:
low - enable feature for all numbers - user has to press '1' to receive the call
medium - be able to turn call confirmation on/off per number
high - be able to assign a password to each number - keep your kids from answering the phone
FreePBX 2.4 has added this.
-Matt

ipfreely

Tue, 12/18/2007 - 04:03 | Call Confirmation with Forward/Find Me Folow Me

This would be a great addition. Good thought!!!

Cheers,
Chris A

isrighthere

Tue, 02/26/2008 - 17:30 | This would be a very usefull

This would be a very usefull feature. any news on whether a Macro or similar is available to achieve the "press 1 to accpet this call" screening feature from FreePBX?

thirdlane

Fri, 03/07/2008 - 00:41 | Call Confirmation with Forward/Find Me Folow Me

Matt,

Give me a call to discuss, or shoot me an email with more details.

Thanks,
Alex

ipfreely

Tue, 03/18/2008 - 01:38 | Followme

The Followme feature in 1.4 Does just this. Calls a multitude of numbers in either a step call or simutaniuosly and play a 1 to accept 2 to decline meassge when the callee answers. We have tested this extensivly and it works quite well

Cheers,
Chris A

thirdlane

Wed, 03/19/2008 - 16:24 | Follwme

Hi Chris,

Did you make that in to a script?

Either way please send me the code and I'll look at the best way to include it.

Thanks,
Alex

mattdarnell

Mon, 03/24/2008 - 22:48 | Chris, Seeing it in FreePBX

Chris,

Seeing it in FreePBX was my inspiration.

Glad to hear they got it right.

-Matt

ipfreely

Tue, 03/25/2008 - 02:20 | app_followme

Hi All,
I don't have a script, as I have not tried this with thirdlane. all our installs with it are on a plain asterisk install, must be 1.4.x

extensions.conf

[macro-followme]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,NoOp(${CALLERID(all)})
exten => s,n,Followme(${EXTEN})
exten => s,n,VoiceMail(u${EXTEN})
exten => s,n,Hangup

followme.conf

[1000]
context => from-internal
music => default-thirdlane
number => 2481234567,30
number => 2489876543,30

In this senario the numbers are dialed 1 after the other, if you want dual ringing it would look like this

number => 2481234567&2489876543,30

All information for the 1 to accept and 2 to decline are found in followme.conf

Really simple and nice. It would be great if you could store the numbers in the ASTdb, it is supposed to be that way in 1.6

Cheers,
Chris A

Skydoc

Thu, 08/28/2008 - 08:18 | Any further on this?

This is a feature that we would dearly like to see in PBX Manager. We are constantly losing calls to answerphones as a user goes out of signal range for a moment - the caller gets dumped into a mobile answerphone where their message is not often found promptly.

Please can we see this as a feature in the next release - does anyone have a workaround that we can use in the interim?

Thanks!

IVSCOMM

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 02:35 | Time Of Day

How about adding in time of day functionality also. Ex. This only works during business hours from 8 to 5 while the client is working or whatever hours you enter.

mattdarnell

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 03:03 | You could easily tie Find Me

You could easily tie Find Me Follow Me to a schedule. That is a good idea.

-Matt