Follow Me or VmX Locater™ - Which One is for You?
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Some people like to have all calls follow them and ring all
their phones. Others may prefer to not be bothered by every call; if the caller
really needs them now, they would like an option but prefer to have voicemail
handle the less urgent matters.
FreePBX offers two different features that are designed for these scenarios, Follow Me and VmX Locater. But why choose between the two when you can have the
best of both worlds?
Making Follow Me and
VmX Locater Work Together
Follow Me
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General Settings
Dialling Options
Aterisk Dial Command Options: See below.
Asterisk Outbound Dial Command Options: See below.
Dial command options
The most common options are 'tr', which means 'The person
receiving the call can transfer a call using #' and 'Generate ringtones
when an extension is ringing'. Other useful options are (Note, this
list is very incomplete. The complete list of options is huge and can
be seen by typing 'show application Dial' in the asterisk console):
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Voicemail VmX™ Locater - what's that?
For some people, Follow-Me does the trick. If I'm not at my desk, start looking for me always. For others, they may not want this unless the caller really needs to reach them. You can configure complicated IVRs, ringgroups, etc. to chain together but this is not manageable on a large scale. So how do you give everyone the ability to provide options to be located, on demand and that the user can manage. That's where the Voicemail VmX Locater comes in ...
