[asterisk-users] Count Available Queue members

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Saturday 18 July 2009 11:57:32 Steve Edwards wrote:
> > Gabriel Ortiz Lour wrote:
> >>   Someone know how can I check for available members on a queue Before
> >> I queue the call, so I can do something else with it? Note that is not
> >> the case for joinempty
>
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:
> > It's going to take some sort of hack, since there appears to be no
> > dialplan app to do this succinctly.
> >
> > One option is to call an AGI script that in turn runs:
> >
> >    asterisk -rx 'queue show your-queue-name' |
> >        egrep 'SIP\/.+ \(Not in use\)' | wc -l
>
> You could reduce the number of process creations from 4 (AGI, asterisk
> -rx, egrep, wc) to 1 (AGI) by using AMI in the AGI.

Or he could just use the builtin dialplan function:
${QUEUE_MEMBER_COUNT(myqueue)}

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