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2/26/09 9:21 PM
Frist post? Yes! Finally I got a first
 
Hi there,
There is a customer project which I intend to use CUAE (cisco unified application engine, a platform that one could develop UC related applications such as to make a call to a device) to work with MP 7.
 
This is a single number access to multiple MP nodes scenario:
1)    CUAE receive a call
2)    CUAE Prompt for meeting id
3)    CUAE Find Meetingplace server with the meeting ID entered
4)    CUAE Connect with MP server
5)    CUAE Connect user with MP

At step 4, for a scheduled meeting, how does an application start/join the meeting without being asked for the meeting id? Can generateTransferCallId() serve the purpose? If so, conceptally how?

If not, does outdialGuest() (assuming the attendees of the meeting are all guest for now) ask for the meeting id?
 
In addition, is there a way such that MP to skip asking for meetingid, but still asks the caller's name? Does outdialGuest() behaves like this?
 
Another newbie's question: when does it a meeting officially start? when the meeting scheduler joins the call? or when the schedued time comes? In another words, will the participants/guests in the waiting room be automatically moved into the  main room when somehow the meeting officially starts?
 
Thanks in advance for your insights.
 
Puze Yang
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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RE: Join a schedued meeting from application
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4/2/09 6:31 AM as a reply to Puze Yang.
Hi,
 
I wrote a little test code for OutdialGuest and this is what I found:
 
  If the meeting has no password then when the user answers the phone they hear "Welcome to meetingplace. To attend the meeting press 1.  To stop the system calling you press 2.".   If the user presses 1 then they are asked for their name and they then enter the meeting room.
 
  If the meeting has a passowrd then the user answers they are given the meeting ID # and asked for the password.  After the password is entered then they are asked for their name.
 
You can connect to a meeting a few minutes before the official start time, and if the meeting is collaborative then all of the participants can talk to each other even though the organiser may not have connected.  If the meeting is a presentation then particpants cannot talk to each other and will not hear anything (apart from the wait music) until the organiser/presenter connects.
 
If you attempt to connect too early the system will tell you "the meeting has not yet started" and hang up on you.
 
Paul
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