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

[John Covici]

For instance, in asterisk, you can actually have branches within a
given extension whereas  in fs, the actions are fixed, you are
encouraged to use a programming language for something more
complicated.  Its a different concept.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:52:48 -0400,
Brian West wrote:
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> 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:
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>  Coming from asterisk, I found that the concept that actions were fixed
>  within a given extension difficult to get my head around.
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>  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,
>  >  >
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