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*[[Howto:Sample Voicemail Script functions]]


The most current VoiceMail XML  language documentation can be found in [http://www.innovaphone.com/xsd/vm.htm vm.htm on www.innovaphone.com/xsd].
The most current VoiceMail XML  language documentation can be found in [http://www.innovaphone.com/xsd/vm.htm vm.htm on www.innovaphone.com/xsd].


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Revision as of 16:50, 14 November 2018

The innovaphone voicemail is implemented as an XML script running in a PBX Voicemail object. While this is a pretty complete implementation of a voice box, it is possible to modify the script or even write your own scripts. Here is how to start.

Voice mail scripting is a quite powerful tool. Please note that "voice mail script" is rather a misnomer. You can support a variety of applications using this scripting language, not only voice mail.

Applies To

This information applies to

  • All V6 and later PBX Platforms

More Information

System Requirements

The PBX voicemail object provides an interpreter for an XML based scripting language. This language is defined in a XML schema file vm.xsd and a documentation is available in vm.htm. Both files can be found in the schema folder in the voicemail application download package on the download page (beware: you must download the full "vm" package, not a single language package only).

To start your own voice mail derivative, just

  • copy vm.xml (found in the \drive\CF0\VM\en|de) in your voicemail installation to a new name
  • change the URL in the voicemail configuration page to point to the new script
  • make the required changes to your new xml copy

To interface the voicemail to other web based applications (such as php or asp scripts on your web server), have a look at the exec tag in vm.htm.

Editing your xml file

Editing your xml script is much easier if you use a dedicated xml editor that is capable of reading the corresponding xml schema file (vm.xsd).

XML helper functions

There is not a native method for every logical operation. Here are some helper functions where no native method exist.

encode asterisk

The lib-enc method does not encode "*" in a string.

<function define="encode_asterisk">

 <assign out="$string_position" value="1" />
 <assign out="$string_position_finished" value="0" />
 <assign out="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" value="" />
 <lib-strlen string="$string_encode_asterisk" out="$string_length" />
 <while notcond="$string_position_finished">
   <index out="$res" value="$string_encode_asterisk" pos="$string_position" size="1"/>
   <switch var="$res">
     <case equal="*">
       <lib-strcat out-string="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" string="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" string2="%2a"/>
     </case>
     <default>
       <lib-strcat out-string="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" string="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" string2="$res"/>
     </default>
   </switch>
   <add value="$string_position" value2="1" out="$string_position" />
   <switch var="$string_position">
     <case greater="$string_length">
       <assign out="$string_encode_asterisk" value="$string_encode_asterisk_tmp" />
       <assign out="$string_position_finished" value="1" />
     </case>
   </switch>	
 </while>

</function>

remove first char

<function define="remove_first_char">

 <lib-strlen string="$string_remove_first_char" out="$file_length" />
  
 <index out="$string_remove_first_char" value="$string_remove_first_char" pos="2" size="$file_length"/>-->

</function>

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The most current VoiceMail XML language documentation can be found in vm.htm on www.innovaphone.com/xsd.