[Asterisk-Users] Why ${EXTEN} variable changes after Goto ?

[Robert Rozman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Umar Sear" <umarsear at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why ${EXTEN} variable changes after Goto ?


> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:11:23 +0100, Robert Rozman <rozman at fri.uni-lj.si> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to implement dynamic routing of incoming calls to local 
>> extension
>> if previous outgoing call was unanswered.
>> But after I do Goto to s-NOANSWER, variable ${EXTEN} changes to
>> 's-NOANSWER'. I guess this is normal, but I don't understand why ? How to
>> workaround on this one ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Rob.
>>
>> [outbound-capi-ISDN]
>> exten => _0.,1,NoOp(Calling ISDN number ${EXTEN:1} on CAPI/7104370 from
>> ${CALLERIDNUM})
>> exten => _0.,2,Dial,CAPI/7104370:b${EXTEN:1}|10|Tt
>> exten => _0.,3,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
>> exten => _0.,103,NoOp(Calling ISDN number ${EXTEN:1} on CAPI/7104371)
>> exten => _0.,104,Dial,CAPI/7104371:b${EXTEN:1}|30|Tt
>> exten => _0.,105,Goto(s-${DIALSTATUS},1)
>> exten => _0.,205,Macro(outisbusy)
>>
>> exten => s-NOANSWER,1,NoOp(NOANSWER - Setting dynamic autoroute for ISDN
>> number ${EXTEN:1} to local ext. ${CALLERIDNUM})
>> exten => s-NOANSWER,2,DBput(DYNAMIC/${EXTEN}=${CALLERIDNUM})
>> exten => s-NOANSWER,3,Congestion
>>
>> exten => _s-.,1,Congestion
>> exten => _s-.,2,Macro(hangupcall)
>>
>
> Save the original extension to a variable like ...
>
> exten => _0.,1,SetVar(myvar=${EXTEN})
Hi,

thanks for info. But another question arises - will this variable be unique 
if for instance two or more calls happen in the same time ? I guess this is 
more general Asterisk behaviour question...

Regards,

Rob.



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