<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>Hi Michael</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for looking at this - I have submitted a patch in FS-6559.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me explain the reason that the feature would be useful to us.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have an application layer that provides customer specific conference features via mod_conference. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We wish to further develop this to provide potential features such as : </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Questions and Answers : guests in lecture mode press some dtmf to indicate they wish to ask a question, and the chair presses some dtmf to manage the queue and unmute the questioner. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chair greeting : the chair can record a personal greeting message which is played to guests when they join. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Security Passcode : the chair can dynamically set a further PIN on the conference instance via DTMF. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chair privacy : a chair can invoke privacy via some DTMF so all guests are put on hold, and only chairs can speak. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And others. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All of these features will require us to store state relevant to the conference instance. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would make life a lot easier if we could store this state as custom variables on the conference object via the mod_conference api. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Phil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Michael Jerris <<a href="mailto:mike@jerris.com">mike@jerris.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Re: [Freeswitch-users] Custom variables for mod_conference</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">27 May 2014 18:22:15 BST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">FreeSWITCH Users Help <<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">FreeSWITCH Users Help <<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a>><br></span></div><br><br>we are happy to look at the patch, just submit it on <a href="http://jira.freeswitch.org">http://jira.freeswitch.org</a>. That being said, conferences do not have their own variables, so I don't get what this feature is doing.<br><br><br>On May 27, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Phil Dunks <<a href="mailto:phil.dunks@netdev.co.uk">phil.dunks@netdev.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi FS Guys<br><br>It would be very useful for our application if we could set some arbitrary custom variables into a conference via the mod_conference api (e.g similar to uuid_setvar for setting channel variables).<br><br>I have updated mod_conference to allow this, and it is working ok for me.<br><br>I’m certainly not a C expert, but basically copied the pattern for other api commands.<br><br>If I submit it as a patch please would you consider it for inclusion (and make any corrections that you feel necessary).<br><br>Thanks <br><br>Phil<br><br><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>