[asterisk-users] Do I understand GROUPs correctly?

[Philipp Kempgen]

Doug Lytle wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I was under the impression that Set(GROUP()=1234) incremented some 
>> value associated with 1234.
>>  
>> So if I did the same thing twice, I'd get a group count of 2.
>>  
>> Ex:
>> exten => s,1,Set(GROUP()=1234)
>> exten => s,n,Set(GROUP()=1234)
>> exten => s,n,Noop(Used channels: ${GROUP_COUNT(1234})
> 
> If this is a direct copy/paste then your error is in line 3.  You have a 
> } positioned incorrectly.  My example below:
> 
> exten => _35XX,1,Set(GROUP()=Max_Calls)
> exten => _35XX,n,NoOP(Active Calls: ${GROUP_COUNT(Max_Calls)})

Apart from that you assign the group 1234 twice to the *same*
channel. So GROUP_COUNT(1234) correctly reports only *1*
channel to be in that group.


Regards,
  Philipp

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