Cisco Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal 11.0(1) Release Note

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1:
 
I
NTRODUCTION
 
 
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UIDE FOR 
C
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U
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CVP
 
VXML
 
S
ERVER 
 
 
 
AND 
C
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U
NIFIED 
C
ALL 
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TUDIO
 
 
 
 
The capabilities of VXML Server listed above are discussed in further detail in Chapter 3: 
Administration, Chapter 3: User Management and Chapter 5: VXML Server Logging. 
Unified CVP Elements 
The Unified CVP Elements are a collection of pre-built, fully tested building blocks to speed 
application development. 
 
Browser compatibility
 – Unified CVP’s library of Voice Elements produce VoiceXML 
supporting the industry’s leading voice browsers. They output dynamically generated 
VoiceXML 2.0 compliant code that has been thoroughly tested with each browser.
 
 
Reusable functionality 
– Unified CVP Elements encapsulate commonly found parts of a 
voice application, from capturing and validating a credit card to interfacing with a database. 
Unified CVP Elements greatly reduce the complexity of voice applications by managing low-
level details. 
 
Configurable content 
– Unified CVP Elements can be significantly configured by the 
developer to tailor their output specifically to address the needs of the voice application. Pre-
built configurations utilizing proven dialog design techniques are provided to further speed 
the development of professional grade voice applications.
 
In Unified CVP, there are five different building block types, or elements, that are used to 
construct any voice application: voice elements, VoiceXML insert elements, decision elements, 
action elements, and flag elements. VXML Server combines these elements with three additional 
concepts: hotlinks, hotevents, and application transfers, to represent a voice application.  
The building blocks that make up an application are referred to as elements. In Unified CVP, 
elements are defined as: 
Element 
A distinct component of a voice application call flow whose actions 
affect the experience of the caller. 
Many elements in Unified CVP share several characteristics such as the maintenance of element 
data and session data, the concept of an exit state, and customizability. 
Element and Session Data 
Much like variables in programming, elements in a voice application share data with each other. 
Some elements capture data and require storage for this data. Other elements act upon the data or 
modify it. These variables are the mechanism for elements to communicate with each other. The 
data comes in two forms: element data and session data.