[Migrated from old forumParticipant April 12, 2015 at 1:25 pm Post count: 327]

#6048 |

Hello.
I can’t use dialplan’s HASH() function in VDP, there is no such function at all.
Dialplan version is 1.8
This function was implemented starting from Asterisk 1.6 and present in 1.8

How can I set and get HASH() with VDP?

[Migrated from old forumParticipant April 12, 2015 at 1:25 pm Post count: 327]

#6049 |

Did you try with Custom code block?

Mark

[Migrated from old forumParticipant April 12, 2015 at 1:25 pm Post count: 327]

#6050 |

Mark, with Custom code i can write any raw dialplan 🙂
I can do it even in any text editor 🙂 And it will be free of charge development environment.
So why i need VDP? To write raw dialplan in single custom code block?

The question is: i bought this software and i want to use it with all Asterisk abilities. Why i can’t?
Custom code should be used for some situations when i add something non-standard to asterisk. Like JSON-support via custom module res_json.so. But not for well-known native functions.

ODBC functions – custom code.
GoTo to exact context-extension-proirity – custom code
Context name / Macro name as variable in GoTo/GoSub/Macro – custom code
Standard variables (their list is present in each Asterisk web resource) – need to be created as custom channel variable to be able to be used.

This is the top-inconveniences list. And day-by-day it becomes longer.

[Migrated from old forumParticipant April 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm Post count: 327]

#6051 |

Mithawk, I am not sure how experienced you are in software development but in my 10+ years of development in various tools I had never find the tool that implemented all I want ;). In case of Asterisk, where you have new version almost every year, with number of new dial plan applications coming with it, the Visual Dialplan would be very unfriendly tool if these guys have had support it all.
I am actually very happy they didn’t do that ;).
Said that, I am using Visual Dialplan for two years now and I also had to use custom code from time to time.
My most wanted app to be support is hint.
Here is compiled list with apps/functions you need:
ODBC functions (BTW, I use Integration Server for this, much easier for maintenance)
GoTo to exact context-extension-proirity
Context name / Macro name as variable in GoTo/GoSub/Macro
Standard variables (their list is present in each Asterisk web resource)
Hint

Add here if you have something more and let’s send it to apstel and ask them for the release date.
They listen. I had correspondence with them in the past and got impression they are very eager to improve visual dialplan.

Mark

[Migrated from old forumParticipant April 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm Post count: 327]

#6052 |

Hello, Mark
At this time it is all inconveniences which i found.

One more wish – make something like dialplan attribute “included” (i.e. not create sections globals and general when publishing dialplan to server.)
Because when I work over some dialplan file which is included to main extensions.conf i must remove this sections each time i make changes in file and publish it to server