Imported appointment invisible

when i import my schedule into voicent, it indicates that the patients have been imported, though the names do not show up on the day next to the time…they are invisible!. If I go to view call list I can see the calls have been made. Please advise on how I can see the patient’s names as I need to attach specific messages before the call goes out.

Please check your appointment start and end time. If they are too short, there might not be enough space to show the names.

I went into the program and expanded the times from 15mintes to 5 minues, now the appointments are visible.

Yes, that’s another way to do it. Thanks for sharing it with us.

When I created my appointment messages, I did it by text to speech, then saved it as a wave file. I then went to message design and created my appointment message using both the set contact info choices…ie contact name, date time etc as well as my own created wave file. I have an error in one of the created wave files that I would like to correct. I went to program files, Voicent, my recording and can see all my created messages. I can listen to them, but can not find a way to edit the original text message. How do I , can I, edit a message that I created text to speech that is now a wave file?

Sorry, the original text is not saved. You have to type in the text again.

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Broadcast service

We would like to use your IVR services for broadcasting from our web application. I have a couple of queries:

1) Do you provide an API (Application Programmable Interface) which I can use to send the messages directly from our web application?

Yes, you can use the command line interface or web (HTTP) interface. For details, please see the developer section on Voicent’s website.

2) Do you provide services outside the US (e.g.UK)?

Voicent provides software tools but does not provide broadcasting service. Howver, if you use Skype for the phone calls, there is not much difference between a broadcast service and a broadcast software. Your application or web site simply interacts with a piece of software, and the actual calls are handled by Skype. There is no need for any telephony hardware when using Voicent with Skype. In the very near future, we are going to have a release that supports SIP. With SIP, you will have more choice for your VOIP phone service providers.

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Gateway service and UI

I can detect whether the Gateway service is started, and can both start and stop the Gateway service programmatically, but the icon in the system tray and the user interface both show that the gateway is stopped. Is there a difference between starting/stopping/restarting the gateway service from an application or the command line, and the opening the UI and clicking the Start button?

There are 3 processes for the gateway program, they are all running as vgate.exe. The first one runs as a windows service, and the second one runs as a server, and the third runs as a client. The client has the user interface. The complication is satisfy Windows Vista security requirement, i.e., windows service process cannot directly interact with a user.

If you use the net command to start and stop the gateway service, you only start and stop the first two processes. To start the client process, simply run vgate.exe.

So yes, it is different if you start the gateway programmatically or by clicking the start/stop button.

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