Error in macro-vm

I believe the error is the comment, not the statement, it was likely cut and pasted from the actual busy statement while leaving the comment intact. Direct-dial should not give a busy message, I suggest the comment is removed to prevent future confusion.

Good spotting, thanks. Fixed in SVN.

Should it not be

exten => s-DIRECTDIAL,n,Voicemail(u${ARG1}@${VMCONTEXT})

rather than

exten => s-DIRECTDIAL,n,Voicemail(${ARG1}@${VMCONTEXT})

As this will play your recorded unavailable message rather than the standard message

u$ = unavailiable message

Just a thought !!

I personally think it's right NOT to use 'u' as if a user is doing a direct dial to a voicemail box then just just want to leave a message don't thou? i.e. they don't care if you are available or not, otherwise they would dial your extension and not direct to voicemail

True but this setting also effects the core - voice mail selection.

so if you have a digital assistant setup with voicemail options you would then select core - voicemail

You will get the standard asterisk please leave a message. Where as before you would have got your custom unavailable message and if you did not have one set the standard asterisk please leave a message.

This ticket also describes the same problem

http://www.freepbx.org/ticket/703

So what's the concensus? Do we want voicemail to play the unavailable message, or the default asterisk message?

I personally have no preference.

There is still something not right on this......on mine, using SVN HEAD from today VoiceMail is going to the DIRECTDIAL bit of the macro when should be unavailble when used as a fail over for a ring group.

Will fix this today totally (hopefully!), although keeping the DIRECTDIAL (i.e. user dials *XXX) as being netier unavailable or busy as I firmly belive that if a user is calling the voicemail directly (i.e. out side of a ringgroup fail over etc.etc.etc) then it should just ask for the message and not state unavailable or busy.

Mark

Spent several hours tonight trying various way of dealing with this but none worked without having a knock on effect elsewhere in the dial plan.

So I've added an option to General Settings to allow selection of the type of message to be used when using the Direct Dial to voicemail option.

Milestone 2.1 deleted