asterisk users - Aug 2004 - Difficulty evaluating the return value of PlayBack (or any other extensions.conf command

Hi,

I just started to "play" with Asterisk today and while I'm 
writing some IVR-like functionality in extensions.conf I 
would like to take a decision based on whether playing a file 
succeeds:

exten => s,2,GotoIf($[Playback(${CALLERIDNUM}_personal) = 0]?3,501) 

So if Playback succeeds I want to jump to label 3, otherwise to 
label 500. Unfortunately Asterisk doesn't seem to understand what 
I want it to do:
Aug  6 15:46:42 NOTICE[524301]: pbx.c:4700 pbx_builtin_gotoif: Not taking any
branch

I've been looking all over the wiki and google, but can't find 
any example doing what I want to do. Is it even possible?

-- 
Andreas Sikkema                Rits tele.com
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t: +31 (0)10 2245544    f: +31 (0)10 2245540

Hi!
> I just started to "play" with Asterisk today and while I'm 
> writing some IVR-like functionality in extensions.conf I 
> would like to take a decision based on whether playing a file 
> succeeds:
Use AGI() to either check for the file presence, or to determine
the rest of the dialplan logic (for example by setting a variable).

Cheers, Philipp

> > I just started to "play" with Asterisk today and while
I'm
> > writing some IVR-like functionality in extensions.conf I 
> > would like to take a decision based on whether playing a file 
> > succeeds:
> Use AGI() to either check for the file presence, or to determine
> the rest of the dialplan logic (for example by setting a variable).
That's like using an elephant to kill a mouse. Why does the documentation of
Playback suggests the return value can be used intelligently when there's no
obvious (documented?) way of using it?

Is there a way to use it?

-- 
Andreas Sikkema
(on webmail so html post, sorry)

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