8.8 Test Lesson 8

The finished call list is shown below:

Validate and Deploy the Application

Validate the application and submit it to Voicent Gateway as show in Lesson 1. Use the same application deployment name. When prompted, choose to overwrite the previous deployed application.

Test Lesson 8

The following is a typical session:

• Caller: call in
• IVR: answer the call
• IVR: "Welcome to my broadcast service. Please enter your password followed by the pound key"
• Caller: 123#
• IVR: "Please record your message after the beep. When you are finished with the recording, press the pound key"
• Caller: "this is a test recording..." (#)
• IVR: "this is a test recording..." (play recorded caller message)
• IVR: "Press 1 to continue and press 2 to record again"
• Caller: 1
• IVR: "Please press 0 for mylist A; press 1 for mylist B"
• Caller: 1
• IVR: disconnect call
• BroadcastByPhone client program is launched
• BroadcastByPhone: start broadcast on a remote outbound call computer using mylist B.voc as the call list

What's behind the scene

The first few steps are skipped. They are the same as in lesson 6.

• ...
• Caller: 1
• IVR: "Please press 0 for mylist A; press 1 for mylist B"
  
  Select Call List element is active. The first action (HTTP action) is executed. It takes the recorded audio file and uploaded it to the remote Voicent Gateway. The upload operation is set to overwrite the audio file referred in the outbound IVR application (the deployed recorded_message.wav file). Depends on your host settings in the URL, this file will be submitted to the remote computer or local computer.
  
  The second action (Java action) is executed. It loads the ivrsample.jar file and run the get method of Java class IvrSampleGetFiles. The two arguments are passed as "C:\Call List" and ".voc". The return is a set of name value pairs. The names include "promptmsg", "list", and "total".
  
  The third action (set variable value) is executed. The list name value pair of the action return variable is save is the user variable all_call_list.
  
  The promptmsg is used as a prompt item. The system plays the prompt: "Please press 0 for mylist A; press 1 for mylist B"
   
• Caller: 1
  
  Start Broadcast element is active. The Run Program action is launched. It executes the runvcast.bat script with arguemnt 1 and the whole returned call list "C:\Call List\mylist A.voc" "C:\Call List\mylist B.voc".
   
• IVR: disconnect call
  
  No more transition. The inbound IVR application is finished.
   
• BroadcastByPhone client is launched
  
  The runvcast.bat file launches the BroadcastByPhone program.
   
• BroadcastByPhone: start broadcast on a remote outbound call computer
  
  According to the command line options specified in runvcast.bat file, the correct call list file C:\Call List\mylist B.voc is opened. Since the call list file has selected its broadcast message already, the outbound IVR application lesson5_msg will be used for the outbound phone calls. If the broadcast host is set to a remote computer, the calls will be made from that remote computer.

Video: IVR Java Integration