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Title: Need holiday announcement
Post by: eciroglu on July 09, 2012, 04:54:35 AM
Hi,

I need a holiday announcement that is valid for specific period of day/time range.

For instance; during 4-days public holiday, an anouncement answers all calls,plays recorded message and hangs up at the end of record.

Is it possible?

Thanks.

Volkan,
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 09, 2012, 05:59:39 AM
Is this the embedded voice mail or NuPoint?

Ralph
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: eciroglu on July 09, 2012, 07:06:05 AM
It is the embedded voice mail.

Thanks.

Volkan,
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 09, 2012, 08:50:37 AM
Temp greeting won't disconnect a call.  It will only change the greeting.
The only way I can think to disconnect a call like you're asking for is to create an ACD path queues for 1 second (important).
Interflow after 1 second to VM that has a transfer mailbox.   Record your greeting in the transfer mailbox. 
Set the transfer mailbox to send to a second ACD path that queues for 1 second and then drops.
Next, reroute all the numbers you want to hear the temp greeting and disconnect in Night 2 mode to the 1st ACD path.
To use it, put your system in Night 2 mode.

Haven't ever tried the above and the part I'm not sure of is the transfer box.
You'll have to try it out.

Ralph
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: x-man on July 09, 2012, 01:53:15 PM
Why not just use a announcement only mailbox, which just disconnects at its end? Just route all calls to the box. done.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: acejavelin on July 09, 2012, 04:11:12 PM
Pretty sure an announcement mailbox will return the caller to the main auto attendant after the message is played. Best bet here for those specific requirements is to make a RAD, then route the calls to the RAD during the period needed.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 09, 2012, 04:11:57 PM
X-man,
Oh, there you go.   Trying to make life easy. 
Why do something in one step when you can do it in 15?
 ::)

Seriously though,   I didn't realize an announcement box would hang up.

Ralph
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 09, 2012, 04:16:08 PM
In the old days, if you routed a call directly to a RAD, it turned it into a with an announcement with DISA functionality. 
Somewhere in the back of my mind I think that has changed but will it disconnect the call after playing?
If you put the RAD in an ACD path you can get it to disconnect but am I adding more steps than needed again?

Ralph
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: acejavelin on July 09, 2012, 04:20:27 PM
I have done this on the SX200, same VM so using the RAD should work...

There is a very simple answer to this as well, if you have an open ONS port, buy a $10 answering machine that can make an announcement, put it on a ONS port, record message in answering machine, then ring trunks to answering machine! Minimal setup and cost, very few steps... only drawback is volume handling.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 09, 2012, 04:47:57 PM
Answering machine!  Truly old school.

Ralph
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: x-man on July 10, 2012, 08:08:10 AM
Information only mailbox (which is what I meant by announcement)

"After listening to the information, the caller can hang up, dial 0 to reach the operator, or dial another extension"...so I was nearly there. I don't know if there is any other prompt from the AA about dialling etc. but IIRC there isn't and haven't got a lab system up at the minute to test it.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: acejavelin on July 10, 2012, 09:33:31 AM
Tried it quick on lab system... setup a Information Mailbox and recorded a greeting in it and you get get a canned prompt after the mailbox greeting of "You may enter another extension now, for assistance press 0, to end this call simply hang-up..." then after a timeout it goes to the regular "root" day or night AA greeting.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: x-man on July 10, 2012, 09:55:35 AM
Will that depend on supercivesd/unsupervised transfer?
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: acejavelin on July 10, 2012, 11:58:32 AM
Just tested it... seems irrelevant to the supervised transfers being enabled or not, I don't think it's "transferring", it's more like it is routing through the VM system.
Title: Re: Need holiday announcement
Post by: ralph on July 10, 2012, 12:15:03 PM
I'm not sure that eciroglu is still monitoring this thread.
He originated the thread but hasn't jumped back in for a while.
I wonder if we're chasing something that moot at the moment.

Ralph