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Call Over LAN from VB Program

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kempjf

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Nov 16, 2011
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I am not sure if this is even possible, but am hoping for suggestions. We have an IP Office, with Voicemail Pro, system. Our Voicemail Pro is running on a Windows XP computer. I would like to be able to develop a VB program that would run on multiple computers connected to the same LAN as the voicemail server and IP Office system. This program needs to be able to "trigger" our paging extension that is already setup in the IP Office system. So that when a button is pressed (or some event) on the VB application it signals a tone over our paging system. Is this even possible? I know there is some vb scripting that can be done in the Voicemail Pro software, but I'm not sure how to use that on a computer not running the Voicemail Pro software. Or can I install some type of client software on these computers, that could be called from a VB app? Thanks.
 
I think your best shot would be using TAPI.
I don't know if you can use RAPI from VB but i guess you can.

A easier solution is to use a post dial action with a prerecorder wav with for example the tone you need.

Call the action from a button on the phone or with TAPI from the pc.


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I have not used TAPI before. Can you elaborate on your easier solution suggestion. Where would the prerecorded wav file be stored? How do I call the action from TAPI on the PC?
 
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