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ivr software manual functions Database Systems Corp. (DSC) provides an API subroutine library of IVR Software routines that perform phone functions The following is a description of one of the functions within this library that controls the IVR operation - ivr_mixed_messages.

The routine is from our C programming library, although this same routine has an equivalent for Visual Basic, .NET, C++ and Active-X. DSC provides a separate user guide for each of these languages.

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ivr_mixed_messages()

int ivr_mixed_messages (int call, IVRMIXEDPROMPTS *prompts, int nprompts, int allow_interrupt)

The ivr_mixed_messages function plays a series of prompts to the specified call. The menu items can either be text or wave files.

Parameters

int

call

Specifies which call play to:

CALL_PRIMARY: Play to Primary Call
CALL_SECONDARY: Play to Secondary Call

IVRMIXEDPROMPTS *

prompts

Array of IVRMIXEDPROMPTS structures containing the pathnames or text of the prompts to play.

int

nprompts

Number of prompts in the prompts array.

int

allow_interrupt

Specifies if a digit can interrupt the prompts. It can be one of the following values.

NO_INTERRUPT: Do not allow prompts to be interrupted by a digit
INTERRUPT: Allow prompts to be interrupted by a digit

Return Value

Returns IVR_SUCCESS on a successful function call. On error the function returns one of the IVR Error Codes.

Example

IVRMIXEDPROMPTS prompts[4] = {
   {PROMPT_WAVE,"D:\\sounds\\Swelcome.wav"},
   {PROMPT_TEXT,"This is a text prompt."},
   {PROMPT_WAVE,"D:\\sounds\\SGoodbye.wav"},
   {PROMPT_TEXT,"Another Text Prompt"}
};

IVRDIGITS ivrd;
if(ivr_mixed_messages(CALL_PRIMARY,prompts,4,INTERRUPT)
   != IVR_SUCCESS){
     ...handle error;
}