[Freeswitch-users] What concepts in FreeSWITCH did you struggle with when you first started?

Brian West brian at freeswitch.org
Wed Oct 26 00:52:48 MSD 2016


What are you meaning 'fixed within a given extension'?  I would like to
fully understand that statement so I can maybe write up something thats
more helpful.

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:48 PM, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> Coming from asterisk, I found that the concept that actions were fixed
> within a given extension difficult to get my head around.
>
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:57:43 -0400,
> Chad Phillips wrote:
> >
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> > I remember being confused when learning to design dialplans in XML.
> There’s variables and conditional logic, but it doesn’t work quite like a
> ’typical’ scripting language.
> >
> > Like Alex said, it made sense once I figured it all out.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:45 PM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >  On 25 October 2016 at 10:46, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I would like to get community input on what concepts caused you the
> most headache and any input/ideas that would help me design some tutorials
> / videos that would help new users coming to FreeSWITCH.
> >  >
> >
> >  setting up users
> >  setting up groups
> >  setting up ring groups
> >
> >  All of those have so many options that it's a little cumbersome to
> >  explain in a short document. Fortunately the project has a few good
> >  books on the configurations and setting it up. There's also lots of
> >  friendly people on the mailing list to help, too.
> >
> >  Also, setting up sip trunks contains many options. Which options are
> >  necessary? Why? When to use what?
> >
> >  For a more in depth tutorial, I'd explain how CDRs work 'out of the
> >  box' and what options are available. Explain postgres support is built
> >  in but it needs to be compiled (if building from source) with certain
> >  config flags (is that still correct, actually?)
> >
> >  Because freeswitch can do so much, explain use cases from a small
> >  business to how a large corporation can use FS successfully.
> >
> >  > Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
> >  >
> >  > Thanks,
> >  >
> >  > --
> >  >
> >  > Brian West
> >  > brian at freeswitch.org
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