E-Z Flow: Planning the System

The necessary E-Z Flow parties meet and decide on the functionality they want their system to include. They decide to create an audiotext system that uses a voice menu to guide callers through a selection of product and support information. The system prompts the caller to enter a selection and responds to the caller's choice by playing the appropriate message. The caller is then returned to the original menu and re-prompted until the option to terminate the call is selected.

The key processes defined for this system are:
  1. Answering the phone

  2. Playing a greeting

  3. Prompting for an option

  4. Collecting digits

  5. Processing the selection (and playing the appropriate message)

  6. Terminating the call

The call-flow is mapped below:

Let's build the application and see how the award-winning VBVoice user interface turns this simple flow-chart into a fully operational telephony application, shown in the picture below:

Jump to Step 2: Creating the E-ZFlow Call-flow Diagram and Setting Properties.