Route calls per weekday on 1 trunk

[revilo951]

Is it possible to set incoming calls on a trunk to be routed to a different extension per day of the week? EG on Sat-Wed, route to extension 201, on Thur-Fri, route to extension 202.

 

[daktur]

@revilo951 ,
You may set the working hours and out of office hours to have different behaviours on different days / hours of the day.

This way during working hours one extension / ring group / queue will ring and during out of the office hours the other one will ring.

Hope you succeed, best luck!

 

[VoIPTools]

Assuming your office hours are different than the need to route the calls to different extensions, you could write a CFD application that looks that the day of the week and transfers calls appropriately. On your inbound rule, transfer the call to the CFD, then the CFD will transfer to the appropriate extension. It will be fast enough that your caller will never know.

 

[revilo951]

@daktur Thanks, that will work, except I cannot choose a different VM box for after hours. It's what I'm doing ATM.

@voiptoys I looked at using CFD, but I know no C# - would it be difficult to do?

 

[VoIPTools]

Would it be difficult to build a routing CFD? I don't think so. Conceptually, it's VERY simple. In the designer add a "Date & Time condition" and add as many conditions as you need. Next, add a transfer component to each condition (pointing to the correct extension). I think that's all there is to it. I don't think you even need any C# code. You should be able to do everything right in the designer.

Now, if you want to add some flexibility, for example, lookup the desired transfer extensions rather than hard-code the values, that's easy enough too. You could store these values in a database or text file. That gets a tiny more complicated, but this should be about as simple as it gets.

 

[revilo951]

OK, where's a good place to start learning about CFD?

 

[Saqqara]

CFD require a Pro or Enterprise license

Section 6 - https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/#section6

This example may help - https://www.3cx.com/docs/cfd-time-based-routing/

 

[revilo951]

Thanks, that looks good. We have a Pro licence.