Exit

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	Exit

Type

Event handler

Available from

AppRoot node (see Setting Global Application Properties: AppRoot Node)

Form Node

Purpose

When events are caught (at the Field level, Form level or AppRoot), there are various ways to handle the event (such as re-playing prompts, going to different forms). In the case where there are more serious errors, consider using the Exit event handler to exit the application.

Behavior

The exit item is used to disconnect the caller and terminate the session. The exit item is intended to be used when "fatal errors" occur and there is no recovery.

A typical use of the Exit item is as a child of Catch ("error.badfetch"). Usually, when the application encounters these "error.badfetch" errors, it means that the application server is unavailable or the caller's session on the application server is no longer valid.

In this scenario, it is not possible to fetch other VXML pages to handle the event because this usually results in additional "error.badfetch" events. To prevent endless bad fetch loops, using Exit will allow the VXML platform to release the call.

See Catch (VXML Events) for other ways to handle VXML events.

Properties

Threshold - A variable that must have a positive integer value.

Note:

This field is available only when the Exit item is placed in an event handler or a node.

This property is used to disable the Exit item until this value is met. For example, if the Exit property is set to 3, the system ignores the Throw item the first two times the specified event is encountered. Only when the event occurs for the third time, the system will throw the event.