[Freeswitch-users] IVR dialplan inheritance

[Ben Hood]

Hi all,

I was wondering under what circumstances an IVR menu would loop back
on itself when a transfer is triggered by user input.

I have the following menu:

<document type="freeswitch/xml">
<section name="configuration">
<configuration name="ivr.conf">
<menus>
<include>
<menu name="1"
greet-long="http_cache://http://$${user}:$${password}@$${url}/audio/76568832.wav"
invalid-sound="ivr/ivr-that_was_an_invalid_entry.wav"
exit-sound="voicemail/vm-goodbye.wav"
confirm-macro=""
confirm-key=""
confirm-attempts="3"
timeout="10000"
inter-digit-timeout="2000"
max-failures="3"
max-timeouts="3"
digit-len="1">
 <entry action="menu-exec-app" digits="3" param="transfer +37950280022
XML public"/>
</menu>
</include>
</menus>
</configuration>
</section>
</document>

When the user dials 3, the following output in the log occurs:

2015-05-14 10:43:00.861297 [NOTICE] switch_ivr.c:1861 Transfer
sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs to XML[+37950280022 at public]
...
2015-05-14 10:43:00.861297 [INFO] mod_dialplan_xml.c:635 Processing
+37950290088 <+37950290088>->+37950280022 in context public

So at this point in time, I would expect the dialplan that matches
+37950280022 to get executed.

However, what appears to happen is that the dialplan that originally
invoked the ivr application is executed again:

Dialplan: sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs parsing [public->ivr_route]
continue=false
Dialplan: sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs Absolute Condition [ivr_route]
Dialplan: sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs Action answer()
Dialplan: sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs Action sleep(2000)
Dialplan: sofia/external/+37950290088 at fs Action ivr(1)

This creates a loop.

This is the original dialplan that invokes the ivr menu:

<document type="freeswitch/xml">
<section name="dialplan">
<context name="public">
<extension name="ivr_route">
<condition>
<action application="answer"/>
<action application="sleep" data="2000"/>
<action application="ivr" data="1"/>
</condition>
</extension>
</context>
</section>
</document>

Is there potentially something in my menu definition that is causing
the original dialplan to executed, as opposed to the dialplan
specified by the transfer application?

Many thanks in advance,

Ben