[Asterisk-Users] Has anybody experience with SetGroup / CheckGroupcommands?

[Matthew Boehm]

ROFL, that was awesome Matt. I took the liberty of putting that here:

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+SetGroup

Your example was so nice and simple, it merrited being "wiki'd"

-Matthew

Matt Riddell wrote:
> Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
>> SetGroup(moh)   can be moh anything as I like? Usually moh stands for
>> "music on hold"
>> CheckGroup(1)  checks if somebody in in group "moh". Does it mean I
>> can only have one SetGroup(xxx) ??
> 
> The idea is that when you do setgroup you are putting this caller
> into a group.  I.E. you could have
> 
> exten => s,1,SetGroup(People_With_Short_Hair)
> 
> That would put anyone who visits this extension into the
> People_With_Short_Hair group.
> 
> then if you do:
> 
> exten => s,2,CheckGroup(678)
> 
> You can make sure that there are not more than 678 people already in
> the People_With_Short_Hair group.
> 
> If there are more than 678 people in the group then the application
> will go to the priority x+101 where x is the current priority.
> 
> See the ,2, on the checkgroup line?  That's the current priority.  So,
> 2+101=103.
> 
> So you could have a line
> 
> exten => s,103,Playback(more_than_678_short_hair)
> 
> which would only be played if there are more than 678 people in the
> group. 
> 
> If however there are less than or equal to the number inside the
> brackets for checkgroup (say for example there are 500 people who have
> short hair), then it will continue to the next priority.
> 
> As above, the current priority is 2 when you do the checkgroup, so the
> next priority is 3.  This means that you can have the line:
> 
> exten => s,3,Playback(less_than 678_short_hair)
> 
> Now, if we put them all together you'd end up with:
> 
> exten => s,1,SetGroup(People_With_Short_Hair)
> exten => s,2,CheckGroup(678)
> exten => s,3,Playback(less_than_or_equal_to_678_short_hair)
> exten => s,103,Playback(more_than_678_short_hair)
> 
> Hope this helps!