[asterisk-users] Manager API - Setvar not working

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:39:39PM +0500, Rizwan Hisham wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using a simple perl script to connect with ast manager api. the script
> tries to set a channel variable. It extracts the channel name from the
> events it recieves after dial command. When i try to set the channel
> variable, asterisk responses with an error saying that the channel does not
> exist. Can anybody tell me why its doing so, coz i can see on cli that the
> channel exists. If i try to set the variable without stating the channel
> then it sets the global variable, but i want to set the channel variable.
> Anybody has a solution to this problem?

In 1.6 you can set a channel variable from a diferent context. I don't
think you can do that in 1.4 .

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