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tknchris at gmail.com
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 Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 9:08 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Call Flow Documentation Tools |
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Hello,
I have been researching software for documenting pbx call flow paths and I was just wondering if anyone out there is using anything they have found particularly useful or cool.
I am looking for something preferably visual that the average end user can follow. So far the best thing I have come up with is making a diagram with a decision tree in visio but its very time consuming to build this by hand for every customer. We would like to be able to provide every customer a diagram so they can easily understand the path that a call takes, what conditions are checked and what actions are taken based on those conditions.
A large portion of my asterisk installs are for non profit or charitable organizations so while I'm not completely fixed on a free solution, if it isn't free the cost needs to be relatively low or at least be a multi-tenant solution that could at least be used for multiple customers.
For most of our installs we manage everything via CLI, but for a few orgs with tech savvy people we have been able to setup freepbx for them and let them make simple changes. I was thinking with freepbx maybe there could even be a module that takes the freepbx configuration and generates visuals based on reading the configuration, this would be really slick although not a complete answer as we have many installs that do not have freepx.
Anyway, just wanted to get some input from others and put my ideas so far out there, if you have any recommendations or experiences to share feel free to reply on or off-list.
Thanks!
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kevin.larsen at pionee...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 10:22 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Call Flow Documentation Tools |
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asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote on 09/12/2014 09:07:36 AM:
| Quote: | I have been researching software for documenting pbx call flow paths
and I was just wondering if anyone out there is using anything they
have found particularly useful or cool.
I am looking for something preferably visual that the average end
user can follow. So far the best thing I have come up with is making
a diagram with a decision tree in visio but its very time consuming
to build this by hand for every customer. We would like to be able
to provide every customer a diagram so they can easily understand
the path that a call takes, what conditions are checked and what
actions are taken based on those conditions.
A large portion of my asterisk installs are for non profit or
charitable organizations so while I'm not completely fixed on a free
solution, if it isn't free the cost needs to be relatively low or at
least be a multi-tenant solution that could at least be used for
multiple customers.
For most of our installs we manage everything via CLI, but for a few
orgs with tech savvy people we have been able to setup freepbx for
them and let them make simple changes. I was thinking with freepbx
maybe there could even be a module that takes the freepbx
configuration and generates visuals based on reading the
configuration, this would be really slick although not a complete
answer as we have many installs that do not have freepx.
Anyway, just wanted to get some input from others and put my ideas
so far out there, if you have any recommendations or experiences to
share feel free to reply on or off-list.
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I see where you are going with this, but haven't seen anything that can analyze a dial plan and generate a flow document. The closest I know of is something like Apstel's Visual Dialplan (http://www.apstel.com) which is meant to go in reverse (visually create the dialplan and it creates the Asterisk code). I have never used it so can't comment on if it can print out the information in the form you are wanting.
I can see that what you want would be difficult to create, but would be very handy. I am interested to see if anyone else knows of such software. |
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