[asterisk-users] AEL Question

[Michel R Vaillancourt]

    Hi, all.  I'm making my first foray into AEL.  I'm starting with a 
simple macro, but I've already encountered an odd behaviour.  I'm 
wondering if someone can shed some insight:

Asterisk 1.2.9.1

macro newPlaceCallPSTN {
    s => {
        TIMEOUT(absolute)=7200;
        NoOp(Analog Out List: ${ANALOGOUT});
        ChanIsAvail(${ANALOGOUT});
        NoOp(Available Out List: ${});
        // --
        theChannel=Cut(AVAILCHAN|-|1);
        NoOp(Now Calling ${MACRO_EXTEN} on ${theChannel}....);
        // --
        Dial(${theChannel}/${MACRO_EXTEN:${TRUNKMSD}});
    };
};

...  I get:

    -- Executing macro("SIP/162-4c8b", "newPlaceCallPSTN")
Oct 13 08:57:22 WARNING[15320]: ast_expr2.fl:183 ast_yyerror: 
ast_yyerror(): syntax error: syntax error, unexpected TOK_GT, expecting 
TOK_MINUS or TOK_COMPL or TOK_LP or TOKEN; Input:
 > {            TIMEOUT(absolute)=7200;         NoOp(Analog Out List: 
ZAP/4&ZAP/3&ZAP/2&ZAP/1);         
ChanIsAvail(ZAP/4&ZAP/3&ZAP/2&ZAP/1);           NoOp(Available Out List: 
);                               theChannel=Cut(AVAILCHAN|-|1);          
NoOp(Now Calling 95145121677 on ....);                   
Dial(/5145121677);       }
 ^
Oct 13 08:57:22 WARNING[15320]: ast_expr2.fl:187 ast_yyerror: If you 
have questions, please refer to doc/README.variables in the asterisk source.
    -- Executing Set("SIP/162-4c8b", "s =0") in new stack
  == Auto fallthrough, channel 'SIP/162-4c8b' status is 'UNKNOWN'


    From what I can see, ChanIsAvail() is not actually populating 
AVAILCHAN the way it should.  Is there a different syntax I should be 
using with AEL for this function?

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	--Michel Vaillancourt
	Senior Telephony Engineer
	Neoxo Inc  (www.neoxo.com)
	+1 514 395 1106 ext 117