Cisco Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal 11.0(1) User Guide

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Associating a UID With the Call 
In order to utilize the user management features of Cisco Unified CVP, a phone call to the 
system must be linked to a user in the user management database. Users are identified in the 
system with a user ID (UID). Only then can the application make decisions such as sending the 
caller directly to their favorite section of the application. In most cases, the UID is set by the 
developer in custom code by analyzing telephony data (e.g., the caller’s phone number) or data 
entered by the caller (e.g., account number and pin). 
 
This functionality exists in fixed element configurations primarily to aid in application 
development where the developer has not yet built the user verification component but would 
still like to test the process once the user is identified. By setting a UID in a fixed configuration, 
the developer can unhinge the application-testing phase from development. This text box also 
supports substitution to allow for more dynamic content. 
  
The Settings Tab 
Settings 
Settings allow the application designer to customize the way the element behaves without 
exposing them to its underlying complexity. The element itself defines which settings its 
configuration contains. The more flexible an element is, the more settings it will expose. Settings 
can be used to specify simple concepts such as the duration of a recording to more fundamental 
concepts such as whether the element expects input from the caller using speech, DTMF, or both. 
Placing the cursor over each setting name will bring up a tooltip containing text describing the 
setting and what role it performs. Icons to the left of the setting indicate if the setting is required 
( ) or repeatable ( ). Builder for VoiceXML Studio will not allow the application to be deployed 
until all elements have values for their required settings. A repeatable setting is a setting that can 
have more than one value. To add a new value to the setting, right-click on the setting and 
choose to add a new value. A repeatable setting value can be deleted by selecting it from the list 
when it is right-clicked. There are no limits to the number of values a repeatable setting can 
have. 
 
Each setting has a different data type that can be seen when clicking on the setting value box. 
One type is a dropdown box, where the value can be only one of a finite set of options.