The
client often has formal legally required communications as
well as less formal notices that must be sent to specific
parties. The client wishes to be able to use their website
to send required messages, informal notices, and alerts to
key parties, and to create a log to document the delivery of
these messages. One method the client desires is to deliver
messages by telephone, and this is to be accomplished with
telephony. The parties that are required to recieve the
messages and the messages thrmselves are determined from the
database, as are communication preferences such as where to
be called and the language to be used. The number is to be
called and the appropriate message played. After the message
has played, the party called must resopnd by pressing a
particular button. This will confirm that the call has been
received, and that fact as well as date and time of delivery
will be stored in the call log.
This portion of the client's website will be an
individual continuation of work done by myself and others,
namely a Communication Design Document, on the communication
aspect of the website. Telephony is not currently being
utilized, and the project is to independently develop and
add this functionality using industry standard hardware and
software to link the website with the local telephone
system, place the calls, and play the messages. The
instructions from the website to the telephony devices are
to be executed using Active Server Page instructions.