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CVPD Scripting - Part 1 (CVPDS-1)

CVP Development and Scripting – Part 1 (CVPDS-1) is part of the Cisco UCCE with CVP suite of Contact Centre training classes.  This course teaches each student to use the features of Call Studio to build self-service IVR applications and to run and maintain them on the CVP VXML Server, and to interface with UCCE/ICM scripts.

Students have ample practice writing applications, using OAMP for put applications into production on the classroom VXML Server, and troubleshooting through log files analysis.

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About the course

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • None (UCCE introduction strongly recommended)

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:   

  • Introduction to the Java API, its capabilities and limitations
  • Practice creating every different Java component to extend Studio (see below)
  • Introduction to Voice Elements and their complexity
  • This course is applicable for any version of CVP and Studio.
Course content

Module 1: Overview of a UCCE with CVP Comprehensive Call Flow

Module 2: ICM routing scripts to route calls to CVP VXML Server applications

  • Passing data (e.g., global variables)
  • Parsing and evaluating data returned
  • Queueing
  • Assigning data to send to Finesse.

Module 3: Writing Call Studio scripts (applications)

  • Prompting Callers – using pre-recorded audio; TTS text-to-speech; Say it Smart to format audio as digits, date, time, currency; input error reprompting
  • Menus
  • Collecting and confirming caller input, such as account numbers, dates of birth, etc
  • Working with variables – Session data, Element data, Call data, Local data (CVP11)
  • Introduction to retrieving data from back end systems:
    • SQL Database interaction – using the Studio Database element to select data
    • Web service interaction- Studio Web Services element for SOAP-web services and calling a simple REST web service
    • Playing audio to callers during back-end data retrieval
  • Catch events
  • Working with counters, decisions, math
  • Introduction to javascript for substrings and string length
  • Setting VoiceXML properties affecting the gateway
  • Multi-Language applications

Module 4: Working with Version Control

Module 5: Implementing a Post Call Survey

Module 6: Using the Studio Debugger to test applications within Studio

Module 7: CVP Reporting Server and CVP CUIC Reports

  • Best practices regarding naming elements and variables
  • Configuring data to pass to the Reporting Server using OAMP
  • Understanding Reporting Server tables
  • Understanding the Application Summary CUIC reports

Module 8: Administration covered throughout the course

  • OAMP Operations Console to deploy applications to VXML Server
  • Using Studio Documenter to print Visio-like diagrams of the application
  • Configuring log file properties
  • Using logs for debugging applications
  • Administrative scripts for graceful updates or suspensions of the server
  • Important log, debug, administration files

Module 9: Cisco Courtesy Callback

  • Detailed discussion of the CCB Call flow, the ICM script, and the 5 Studio scripts used for Courtesy Callback. 
Who Should Attend

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Application Developers
  • Programmers
  • Sales and Pre-Sales
  • Technical Support
  • Project Managers
  • Cisco customers, partners, and employees involved in UCCE/CVP or CVP Stand-alone deployments.