Extensions for Hotel I know it's a topic already covered but [SOLVED]

[claloano (Claudio Pelosi)]

Extensions for Hotel I know it’s a topic already covered but …

I wish that the extensions could not call the other extensions apart from the reception and everything is ok but I would like that if they dial a longer number of the extensions for example over 5 digits they can still make calls

for this purpose I created a context like this that allows you to call only one extension:

[from-room-phone]
exten => 16,1,Goto(from-internal,${EXTEN},1) ; assuming they press 0 for the front desk
exten => _[*0-9]!,1,Playback(ss-noservice) ; block everything
exten => h,1,Hangup()

But how can I tell him now that if the number dialed is over 5 digits he can call …?

[PitzKey (Itzik)]

Use rather the predial hook for internal calls, all external calls will not be intercepted.

I did something similar

Accountcode field - where is it used?

Bill, thank you so much for bringing up this idea! So simple and can do so much. For example, I just did an extension to extension block/allow based on the account code. Basically, with COS you can control everything besides calls between extension to extension. We managed in the past to block extension to extension calls based on the Caller ID etc. But now we can have the PBX administrator simply add the account code to each extension, and only extensions with matching account codes can call…

[claloano (Claudio Pelosi)]

for now I’m happy with this:
I call the extension I want and I call the mumber with over 3 digits …

[from-room-phone]
exten => 16,1,Goto(from-internal,${EXTEN},1) ; assuming they press 0 for the front desk
exten => _X,1,Playback(ss-noservice) ; block everything
exten => _XX,1,Playback(ss-noservice) ; block everything
exten => _XXX,1,Playback(ss-noservice) ; block everything
exten => _.,1,Goto(from-internal,${EXTEN},1) ; assuming they press 0 for the front desk
exten => h,1,Hangup()