Terminating Input

Introduction

The default terminating character for VXML documents is #. However, if there is need to use # as input itself, then the property termchar needs to be overridden

<property name="inputmodes" value="dtmf"/>
<property name="termchar" value="*" />
  <menu>
    <prompt>
      Press 1 or say balance to check your account balance.
      Press 2 or say address change to change your billing address.
      Press 0 or say operator to speak to a customer service
        representative.
      Press #  or say quit to exit.
    </prompt>

If both '#' and '*' are valid input types, then the termchar variable can be reset by adding the following tag to the VXML document.

<property name="termchar" value="" />

For a complete list of VXML document properties, click here.