Dynamically generate VXML files

I have been working through your Tutorial. I understand that the Voicent Gateway embedded web server is TomCat; this means that I cannot use VB.NET or C# to dynamically create VXML scripts. The question is: is there any way I can create VXML scripts via VB.NET or C#?

Yes and no. It is true that you cannot deploy your VB.NET or C# code to Tomcat. But you can point Voicent Gateway to use other web servers. All you need to specify is the starturl for your application.

Thank you for the answer. That makes sense. The CallNow tutorial demonstrates calling one phone number at a time. In my application, there is a requirement to call several numbers simultaneously. So the application has to tell Voicent to initiate the phone calls. The question is: how do I go about doing this? Do I prepare x VML files for x number of phone calls to be made? Or is there a way to specify x number of phone numbers to call inside a single VXML file? And how would I initiate multiple simultaneous phone calls?

This is actually pretty easy with Voicent Gateway. All you need to do is submit all the calls to Voicent gateway and specify the call time (could be the same time). The gateway should take care of the rest. For example, if the gateway has 24 lines, and you submit 50 calls to be called at once. The gateway will utilize all 24 lines to make the first 24 calls, and the rest 26 calls will be queued. Whenever a call is finished, the next call from the queue is initiated. All these should be transparent to your application. The only thing you need to take care of is the “firstocc” parameter in your call request. It is used to set a limit for how late should a call still be rescheduled due to the lack of available phone lines.

Though you could specify multiple phone numbers for one call request, it is not recommended, especially when you need to get the call status for each calls.

Thank you. Does the Voicent Gateway Shareware version allow simultaneous calls to be made? I have tried noticed that it only makes phone calls consecutively. FYI, I am using Skype

Yes, it can make up to 10 simultaneous calls. For Skype, you need to start multiple Skype instances. Details please see Skype FAQ