Summary:	ASTERISK-18761: Create a new hint type for voicemail boxes
Reporter:	Wolfgang Pichler (wuwu)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2011-10-27 23:17:37	Date Closed:	2011-11-03 10:06:05
Priority:	Minor	Regression?
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Applications/app_voicemail/NewFeature
Versions:	Feature Tracker	Frequency of Occurrence
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Description:	It would be nice to be able to track the status of a voicemail box with using a custom hint type - as alike with meetme hints So you could create a hint like exten => 999,hint,Voicemail:999@default and be able to watch the status of the voicemail box no unread messages=IDLE unread messages=INUSE new message arriving currently=RINGING Why should someone need this... Simple to be able to watch more than one mailbox on a desk phone - or to be able to configure a blf button for voicemail - with voicemail indication directly on the button.
Comments:	By: Leif Madsen (lmadsen) 2011-11-03 10:05:48.720-0500 Features requests are no longer submitted to or accepted through the issue tracker. Features requests are openly discussed on the mailing lists [1] and Asterisk IRC channels and made note of by Bug Marshals. [1] http://www.asterisk.org/support/mailing-lists I do agree this would be a neat feature to have, unfortunately we can't have feature requests on the bug tracker without submitted code. By: Leif Madsen (lmadsen) 2011-11-03 10:13:07.174-0500 Actually, I think you could already fake this with Custom hints. Define a Custom hint, then change the status when a voicemail is left using something like 'externnotify=' in voicemail.conf to trigger a script that would update the hint from the AMI. There may be cleaner ways of going about it, but it doesn't seem impossible to do right now.