This actually ended up being a whole lot easier than I thought it was going to be. To create a yes/no dropdown list in conferences to set the record option, you just need to SSH into your Trixbox and do the following:

1) Change to the conference module directory.
cd /var/www/html/admin/modules/conferences

2) Make a backup copy of the current conferences configuration page.
cp page.conferences.php page.conferences.php.orig

3) Open page.conferences.php in nano.
nano -w page.conferences.php

4) Search for the following code:

                <a href="#" class="info">
<?php
 echo _("allow menu:")
?>
<?php
 echo _("present menu (user or admin) when '*' is received ('send' to menu)")
?>
</a>
                        
                        
<?php
                                $optselect = strpos($options, "s");
                                echo '<option value=""' . ($optselect === false ? ' SELECTED' : '') . '>'._("No") . '</option>';
                                echo '<option value="s"'. ($optselect !== false ? ' SELECTED' : '') . '>'._("Yes"). '</option>';
                        
?>
                        
                
        

5) After the "" above, paste the following code:

                <a href="#" class="info">
<?php
 echo _("record conference:")
?>
<?php
 echo _("record the conference to /var/lib/asterisk/sounds")
?>
</a>        
                
                        
                        
<?php
                                $optselect = strpos($options, "r");
                                echo '<option value=""' . ($optselect === false ? ' SELECTED' : '') . '>'._("No") . '</option>';
                                echo '<option value="r"'. ($optselect !== false ? ' SELECTED' : '') . '>'._("Yes"). '</option>';
                        
?>
                        
                
        

6) Press ctrl+x to exit nano and confirm that you want to write the changes to page.conferences.php.

7) I'm not sure if step 7 is necessary, but I restarted Amportal. It won't hurt to do this.

amportal restart

Now, if you open FreePBX in your browser, go to Setup, and choose the Conferences module you will see that the last dropdown list gives you the option to record the conference. Select Yes if you want to record, submit the changes, and you can verify that the conference will record by opening extensions_additional.conf and searching for your conference number. You will see a line that contains your options (e.g. M for music on hold and r for record).

Your recordings will be saved to /var/lib/asterisk/sounds by default, though this can be changed as well.

This is my first time editing anything like this, so let me know if I've made any mistakes or if you have a better way to handle this.

Andrew

I added it as ticket number 2158.

Thanks,

Andrew