I have created a service that displays a menu on the phone using <CiscoIPPhoneMenu> tags. I have a URL associated with each menu item. I have another Soft Key at the bottom named "Details" which is supposed to take the user to a Details page. I would like to use the item user selected from the menu on the details page. Is there a way I can get the selected item or is there any other way to accomplish this?
 
Thanks,
Max 

Thanks a lot for your response.
 
My menu item looks like this, can I somehow add QueryStringParam to it?
 
<MenuItem>
<Name>Item 1</Name>
<URL>Dial:7000</URL>
</MenuItem> 
 
 

Yes, of course. Here is the XML.
 
 <CiscoIPPhoneMenu>
  Select Number Type
  <Title>LastName, FirstName</Title>
- <MenuItem>
  <Name>LastName1, FirstName1</Name>
  <URL>Dial:xxxx</URL>
  </MenuItem>
- <MenuItem>
  <Name>LastName2, FirstName2</Name>
  <URL>Dial:xxxx</URL>
  </MenuItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
 <"Position">1<"/Position">
  <Name>Dial</Name>
  <URL>SoftKey:Select</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
   <"Position">2 <"/Position"> 
  <Name>Details</Name>
  <URL>http://<URL>/ContactDetails.aspx?studentID=xxxx&lastname=xxxx&firstname=xxxx</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
   <"Position">3 <"/Position"> 
  <Name>Exit</Name>
  <URL>SoftKey:Exit</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
  </CiscoIPPhoneMenu>
 
As you can see in this XML, a user can select the menuitem from the soft key "Dial" and the number will be dialed. There is an additional soft key "Details" which takes the user to another page with details. What I would like to do is pass the selected item's LastName and FirstName to the Details page. I am programming in C# and I have the name values stored in variables, I only need to transfer them to the Details page.
 
Thanks,
Max

Since you can't use the Dial: URI and the QueryStringParam: URI at the same time, you would need to do this in two steps:
 
First display the menu, which will send a parameterized request back to either a ContactDial or ContactDetails URL depending on which softkey is pressed:
 

 <CiscoIPPhoneMenu>
  Select Number Type 
  <Title>LastName, FirstName</Title> 
- <MenuItem>
  <Name>LastName1, FirstName1</Name> 
  <URL>QueryStringParam:studentID=12345</URL> 
  </MenuItem>
- <MenuItem>
  <Name>LastName2, FirstName2</Name> 
  <URL>QueryStringParam:studentID=67890</URL> 
  </MenuItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
 <"Position">1<"/Position">
  <Name>Dial</Name> 
  <URL>http://myserver/ContactDial.aspx</URL> 
  </SoftKeyItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
   <"Position">2 <"/Position"> 
  <Name>Details</Name> 
  <URL>http://myserver/ContactDetails.aspx</URL> 
  </SoftKeyItem>
- <SoftKeyItem>
   <"Position">3 <"/Position"> 
  <Name>Exit</Name> 
  <URL>SoftKey:Exit</URL> 
  </SoftKeyItem>
  </CiscoIPPhoneMenu>

 
Then if the URL was 'ContactDial', you can send a CiscoIPPhoneExecute back with a Dial URI:
 
<CiscoIPPhoneExecute>
<ExecuteItem URL="Dial:1000"/>
<ExecuteItem URL="http://myserver/NowDialingYourContact-CiscoIPPhoneText.xml"/>
</CiscoIPPhoneExecute>

Ah, I see.  Query string params are supported in a second formulation that might help:
 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CiscoIPPhoneMenu>
  <Title>LastName, FirstName</Title>
  <MenuItem>
    <Name>LastName1, FirstName1</Name>
    <URL>http://myserver/ContactHandler?studentID=12345</URL>
  </MenuItem>
  <MenuItem>
    <Name>LastName2, FirstName2</Name>
    <URL>http://myserver/ContactHandler?studentID=67890</URL>
  </MenuItem>
  <SoftKeyItem>
    <Position>1</Position>
    <Name>Dial</Name>
    <URL>QueryStringParam:action=Dial</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
  <SoftKeyItem>
    <Position>2 </Position>
    <Name>Details</Name>
    <URL>QueryStringParam:action=Detail</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
  <SoftKeyItem>
    <Position>3 </Position>
    <Name>Exit</Name>
    <URL>SoftKey:Exit</URL>
  </SoftKeyItem>
</CiscoIPPhoneMenu>


In this case if the user highlights a menu selection and lifts the phone, the 'raw' URL, e.g. http://myserver/ContactHandler?studentID=67890 will be called.  If they highlight the selection and press the Details softkey, this URL gets requested: http://myserver/ContactHandler?studentID=67890&action=Detail.  Your web service can then return the CiscoIPhoneExecute with the Dial: URI if there is no 'action' param (or action=Dial) or the details CiscoIPPhoneText if action=Detail.

 
 

Didn't test it, just going by the expected behaviour as I understand it.  What is the behaviour that you see on your end with 7945?  Does the phone not do anything when pickup up after selecting a menu item?  If it does make a request, what URL does it send?

After some testing I can confirm you observation.  It looks like if you want the behaviour where lifting the phone automatically dials the selected menu item, then the menu item's <URL> has to be a Dial: URI.  If the <URL> is anything else - like a regular HTTP URL - lifting the handset does not cause the phone to automatically retrieve it.
 
Unfortunately it looks like you can have either the auto-dial on off-hook behaviour, or the query-string-param behaviour -but not both.