05-16-2007 03:51 PM - edited 03-14-2019 09:32 PM
Is there any way to remove the requirement to press # to dial a party's extension followed by the # sign when using Auto Attendent's Dial by Extension?
We want to be able to have the user just dial the extension. I thought about changing the script to append a # sign to the end of the collected number, but wasn't sure if there was an easier way.
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05-16-2007 05:13 PM
Not with the canned auto attendant script. With a custom script you can do whatever you want. It's simply using the # to know when to be done collecting digits.
With a custom script you can look for a # as the delimiter and/or wait for a timeout and/or only collect a fixed number of digits.
You can email ask-cue-editor@external.cisco.com for sample scripts. Please supply your CUE version ('show software version' on the CUE CLI).
05-16-2007 05:13 PM
Not with the canned auto attendant script. With a custom script you can do whatever you want. It's simply using the # to know when to be done collecting digits.
With a custom script you can look for a # as the delimiter and/or wait for a timeout and/or only collect a fixed number of digits.
You can email ask-cue-editor@external.cisco.com for sample scripts. Please supply your CUE version ('show software version' on the CUE CLI).
05-16-2007 06:10 PM
I'm using a custom script that where I copied the Dial by Extension from the sample AA scripts. I guess that's where I went wrong, should have just built from scratch.
Thanks
05-16-2007 07:00 PM
Yep. The easy way is if you have a fixed number of digits and you don't want people entering the #. Then you can just use Get Digit String and grab as many digits as you need. To make it better, you can use Get Digit String and always only collect one digit. Then keep track of how many you've collected. You can then keep a variable with the collectedDigits that you keep putting the collected digit (as long as it's not # and the timeout isn't reached).
With some more complex AA's you can have the callers enter the extension any time (i.e. you don't need to say 'press 1 if you know the extension'); you just make sure if the number of collected digits is exactly 1 (and a timeout is reached), then it's probably a menu option that they want and not an extension.
05-16-2007 07:18 PM
If I set it up the way you suggested, then I guess I would need to play my menu prompt seperately and not tie it the menu. Collect the digits and then step into the menu. Can you pass the digits into the menu?
05-16-2007 07:24 PM
05-16-2007 07:41 PM
Very nice; does exactly what I was wanting to do. Thanks alot
05-17-2007 02:39 AM
Hi,
Pls can you upload the sample AA script again? I do have a similar challenge.
TIA,
Kayode
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