[Freeswitch-docs] Request for comment on new channel variable catalog

Bote Man bote_radio at botecomm.com
Fri Feb 2 23:37:37 UTC 2018


Agreed! There are enough duplications so let's not confuse people. If the new one is incomplete, then that is simply the nature of a wiki.

Bote


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From: Stanislav Sinyagin [mailto:ssinyagin at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 02 February, 2018 17:47
To: Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>; FreeSWITCH Docs Team <freeswitch-docs at lists.freeswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Request for comment on new channel variable catalog

if there's no objection, let's make these new pages productive, and hide the old one.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:
> Well, if there is a way to do that it would be either a LOT of manual 
> work or a script that somehow magically knows which terms to form into 
> links suitable for Confluence.
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> Even if such a list were generated from the source code or Doxygen(?) 
> we would still need some way to form the links. I have no good ideas for that.
> Documentation is largely a manual endeavor, even in the tech field.
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> From: Stanislav Sinyagin [mailto:ssinyagin at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 02 February, 2018 17:23
> To: Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>; FreeSWITCH Docs Team 
> <freeswitch-docs at lists.freeswitch.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Request for comment on new channel 
> variable catalog
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> I thought more of a global way to reference variables from other 
> pages. Also a global index page with just names wouldn't be too bad.
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> On Feb 2, 2018 23:21, "Bote Man" <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:
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> High praise from Stan! He does good work, too.
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> You can use an aspect of Confluence Table of Contents to form links 
> within the page, especially since they make it so insanely difficult 
> to create a simple anchor within a page.
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> The way the 'FS ToC' macro that I created works is by only including 
> the higher level heading tags, I think h1, h2, possibly h3. I can't 
> recall off-hand and I can't check right now.
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> You can copy an individual link to the term of interest from the ToC 
> and paste that elsewhere. It's cumbersome, but it's less cumbersome 
> than the way Confluence wants you to do it. Have a look at 
> https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Conference+Relate
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> I see Confluence led you down the garden path of inserting Sections 
> :-) I learned the hard way that they are a royal pain to manipulate, 
> especially when a section is the first element on a page: you aint 
> inserting ANYTHING before it.
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> See if that ToC idea helps you. Lots of good work there, thank you.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freeswitch-docs 
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> On Behalf Of Stanislav Sinyagin
> Sent: Friday, 02 February, 2018 16:27
> To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team <freeswitch-docs at lists.freeswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] Request for comment on new channel 
> variable catalog
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> wow, excellent work, and I like the formatting better than mine.
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> Next step, we need to find a way to index them. At the moment (I
> tried) it's impossible to make links to individual variables. This 
> needs help from Confluence experts.
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> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Ryan Harris <ryharris at airmail.cc> wrote:
>> Hi list,
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>> I've mostly completed "normalizing" the channel variables section.
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>> On this page:
>> https://freeswitch.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=776627
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>> DTMF Variables and all pages below show the new catalog.
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>> If there is _anything_ you think needs to be tweaked, please let me 
>> know. Everything can be changed with relative ease: page ordering, 
>> variable ordering, variable groups, formatting, datatypes, etc.
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>> Here are some things to look for:
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>> - check for correct data types -- we default to string when it's 
>> ambiguous/don't know
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>> - check for deprecated variables - I can mark them as such
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>> - check for variables not marked as readonly - I can mark them as 
>> such
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