Thirdlane PBX Manager 6.1.1.5 is available

How do I enabled the multiple (tenant private) parking lots in MTE after I upgrade?

are you running 1.6.2.x?

I've been going through 6.1.1.2 to repatch stuff after upgrading and found an error that I fixed before but appears to still be broken in this version.

In special_features.include shouldn't the line in [tl-faxsend]:

exten => h,n(error),Set(FAXERROR=${FAXOPT(error))

be:

exten => h,n(error),Set(FAXERROR=${FAXOPT(error)})

Missing close bracket.

Also it looks like in scripts.include [macro-tl-goto-voicemail-direct] the line:

exten => s,n,Voicemail(${MACRO_EXTEN:3},u)

should be:

exten => s,n,Voicemail(${MACRO_EXTEN:3}@default${TL_DASH}${tenant},u)

Yes, I am running 1.6.2.9.

Very strange, I could swear that both problems were fixed, it looks like somehow the update was lost.

Will fix this in the next release.

Concerning this feature:

2010-08-20 Added support for multiple (tenant private) parking lots in MTE. Note that this will only work in 1.6.2.X and 1.8.X.X. This will be enabled by default only for new installations.

How can I enable this on my existing MTE installation?

I think I've found a fairly big bug that may only hit a limited number of people but I think it has hit us.

We're running 1.6.1.x (but probably only until this weekend) and have multi-tenant parking enabled. In order to do so all our extensions have:

parkinglot=parkinglot_tenantname

in them.

Prior to upgrading we just entered that setting in the "Other Options" field. However, now the parking lot setting no longer shows up in the other options field. So any user extension you touch will have the parking setting removed from it if you modify the extension without re-adding the manual parking setting.

I'm assuming this is because MTE is smart enough to recognize the parking command but then doesn't load it since this is not 1.6.2.x.

Ping - 2 Weeks Later - Same Question

Concerning this feature:
2010-08-20 Added support for multiple (tenant private) parking lots in MTE. Note that this will only work in 1.6.2.X and 1.8.X.X. This will be enabled by default only for new installations.
How can I enable this on my existing MTE installation?

3.5 weeks later - Same Question

Concerning this feature:
2010-08-20 Added support for multiple (tenant private) parking lots in MTE. Note that this will only work in 1.6.2.X and 1.8.X.X. This will be enabled by default only for new installations.

How can I enable this on my existing MTE installation?

do you know how to use 'vi' or 'vim' editors?

There is a file called features.txt that in case of a new installation with Asterisk version that support multiple parking lots will contain a line

multiparking=1

This file is not meant to be used by customers and is used internally to record the information about the available features at the time of original (first) installation. The reason we are not advertising this is to avoid confusion in cases where customers will try to enable features manually while the installed Asterisk version does not support that feature, or something in PBX Manager implementation (like conference room numbering scheme) was changed and mixing the old and the new way would create problems.

Setting:

multiparking=0

does not keep MTE from breaking configuration of multi-tenant parking if you were already doing it before upgrading to the new version of MTE.

MTE takes out the multi-tenant configuration from any extension you ever touch with MTE.

We figured we'd just to to 1.6.2 but there are apparently issues there with the current configs and upgrading to 1.6.2

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I have a MTE installation:

Asterisk 1.6.2.9
PBX Manager 6.1.1.5

I have been doing multi-tenant parking since before 6.1.1.5 when Thirdlane added support *by manually editing the config files*... with vim;)....

2010-08-20 Added support for multiple (tenant private) parking lots in MTE. Note that this will only work in 1.6.2.X and 1.8.X.X. This will be enabled by default only for new installations.

I took this to mean that I do not any longer have to do any manual config file editing every time I add a new tenant. However It is not enabled and even though I am running all the latest software I am still using vim for every tenant. I do not see a features.txt in my installation. Where do I create that file, and once created is my assumption right that Thirdlane GUI will create the parking contexts for each tenant?

/etc/webmin/asterisk/features.txt

add that line that alex mentioned.

once multiparking=1 in that file, then newly created tenants will get your additions without you having to manually add them.

Our installation does not have a /etc/webmin/asterisk/features.txt file. Should this just be manually added? Should there be other entries as well in this file or just the multiparking=1 line?

Also, is there anything that needs to be done for existing tenants to get parking working properly?