The Following Tutorial will help you how to write a dialplan in asterisk \/ vicidial \/ goautodial for making Outbound calls via the trunk configured<\/p>\n
DIALPLAN<\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dialplan defines how Asterisk handles inbound and outbound calls. It is specified in the configuration file named \u00a0extensions.conf.\u00a0The extensions.conf file usually resides in the \/etc\/asterisk\/ directory<\/p>\n But in vicidial \/ goautodial \u00a0we will defining the dialplan in dialplan entry field under Carrier settings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Dialplan Syntax<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The \u00a0Syntax for the Asterisk dialplan is<\/p>\n exten => name,priority,application<\/p>\n name \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– \u00a0the name or number of the extension ie: 123 ,abcd, or pattern matching<\/p>\n Priority \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– The priority (each extension can include multiple steps; the step number is called \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the “priority”) ie \u00a0 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n Application\u00a0 \u00a0– The application (or command) that performs some action on the call<\/p>\n Example dialplan for understanding<\/em><\/p>\n example 1<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n exten => 123,1,Answer<\/p>\n In this example the name is 123 , priority is 1 and Application is Answer<\/p>\n example 2<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n exten => 123,1,Answer<\/p>\n exten => 123,2,Hangup<\/p>\n Is this example the name is 123, and priorities 1 followed 2 , \u00a0Applications \u00a0Answer followed by Hangup which is the second priority.<\/p>\n Dialplan Pattern Matching<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Before getting into the advance dialplan we need to understand the pattern matching<\/p>\n Pattern Matching tells asterisk that we are matching on a pattern and not\u00a0 a explicit number<\/p>\n The dialplan syntax with pattern matching is<\/p>\n exten => _XZN,priority,Application<\/p>\n below are the Patterns options value<\/p>\n X Matches any single digit from 0 to 9<\/p>\n Z Matches any single digit from 1 to 9<\/p>\n N Matches any single digit from 2 to 9<\/p>\n [147-9] Matches a single digit from the range of digits specified. In this case, the pattern matches a single 1, 4, 7 8 or 9<\/p>\n . (period) Wildcard match; matches one or more characters, no matter what they are. If you’re not careful, wildcard matches can make your dialplans do things you’re not expecting (like matching built-in extensions such as\u00a0i\u00a0or\u00a0h). You should use the wildcard match in a pattern only after you’ve matched as many other digits as possible. For example, the following pattern match should probably never be used: _. In fact, Asterisk will warn you if you try to use it. Instead, use this one, if at all possible: _X.<\/p>\n ! (bang) Wildcard match; matches zero or more characters, no matter what they are.<\/p>\n Some example dialplan with pattern matching<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n example 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n if you want to dial \u00a0US no \u00a0ie starting with code 1 and followed by 10 digits<\/p>\n exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,1,Answer<\/p>\n example 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dialling UK no ie code 44 followed by 10 digit<\/p>\n exten => _44XXXXXXXXXX,1,Answer<\/p>\n example 3;<\/strong><\/p>\n US no 7 digits followed by 1<\/p>\n exten => _1XXXXXXX,1,Answer<\/p>\n example 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n first digits should be 1,2,4 and 9 rest 10 digits many any no<\/p>\n exten => _[1249]XXXXXXXXXX,1,Answer()<\/p>\n example 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n if you are not sure about digits you can use period . \u00a0ie(dot)<\/p>\n exten => _1X.,1,Answer()<\/p>\n this dialplan accept any number followed by 1 ie above 2 digit<\/p>\n Vairables.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As of this tutorial we are not going deep into variable, only we will consider ${EXTEN} Variable<\/p>\n