QUESTION Trying to add paging timeout

[Tidder]

I have an Incredible PBX 13-13.10 on centOS 7 VM. Trying to figure out how to add a time limit to a paging group. I found some info here on what implementation would look like: https://www.voip-info.org/asterisk-cmd-page/ but I can't figure out where I'd actually add the line "exten => 7999,1,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=60)" or, in my case, "exten => 700,1,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=10)".

I see references to including app-pagegroups-custom but I can't find that in any of the config files.

 

[krzykat]

Often on these things, you need to find the original, and then people just make it "custom" for an override. If you look through the configs, you will find "app-pagegroups" in extensions_additional.conf ... this is a file created by FreePBX. so you can't edit it - or it will be overwritten whenever FreePBX reloads. check the file extensions_custom.conf ... there you can write to the file and FreePBX will leave it alone.

 

[Tidder]

Got it. So in extensions_custom.conf do I create a section called [app-pagegroups-custom] and add it there? Or just [app-pagegroups] and it knows anything there overrides extensions_additional.conf? Sorry, I haven't had to do much with CLI config so I'm not entirely sure how these interact with each other.