Sorry if there are other topics on this, I did some searching and couldn't find anything.

I wanted to limit the extensions that a caller could dial to only those that matched the IVR's directory context. For example if IVR Directory Context = group1, then only extensions with VM context = group1 can be dialed from that IVR. This is already setup for directory search, but I couldn't find anything for the Direct Dial.

I wanted to share the dial plan in case it would be useful to incorporate into FreePBX, or just incase anyone else had the same need as I did.

insert into extensions_custom.conf

[ivr-10-custom]
include => ivr-direct-context-only
; end [ivr-10-custom]

[ivr-direct-context-only]
; Match only 3+ digit dialing
; ${EXTEN} = number dialed
; ${DIR-CONTEXT} = context set in IVR
; ${VMCONTEXT} = context of extension dialed - this is also used so that invalid extensions are not dialed
; ${IVR_CONTEXT} = IVR that called this function so it can return on invalid dial
exten => _XXX.,1,Macro(get-vmcontext,${EXTEN})
exten => _XXX.,n,GotoIf($["${VMCONTEXT}" = "${DIR-CONTEXT}"]?from-did-direct,${EXTEN},1:${IVR_CONTEXT},i,1)
; end of [ivr-direct-context-only]

I set up the dial plan this way so that it could be used for any IVR and would return to the original IVR in case of an invalid extension. I'm a novice at dial plan construction so I'm sure there is a better way to do this.

It would be nice if the IVR setup would show you a list of all VoiceMail contexts so that you could select all context that could be accessed from the IVR. This would also apply to the Directory context.

Thanks,
Colin.