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Administrator Portal and Setup

  • Quick Setup Guide
  • Setup Guides and Templates
  • Privileges summary
  • Administrator Portal Overview
  • Full Setup Guide
    • Setup 1: Setting up agents
    • Setup 2: Preparing assets
    • Setup 3: Assigning user groups
    • Setup 4: Creating queues
    • Setup 5: Multiple groups
    • Setup 6: Queue Numbers
    • Setup 7: Adding audio files
    • Setup 8: Customising queue recordings
    • Setup 9: Customising agent recordings
    • Setup 10: Queue KPIs
    • Setup 11: Advanced setup
    • Setup 12: Queue Announcements
    • Setup 13: Callback setup
    • Setup 14: Customising time ranges
  • Administrator Information
    • What I can see on my screen after I log in
    • Change password
    • Change Language
    • Searching a list
    • Searching a dropdown list of items

Staff Management

  • Status data report
  • Users
    • Call Recording
    • Resetting user passwords
    • Modifying an existing user account
    • Configuring recording for a user account
    • Chat recording
    • Viewing agent contact details
    • Setting the IVR PIN
    • Viewing agent capability
  • Groups
    • User groups
    • Creating and adding a user group
    • Editing or deleting a user group
    • Copying a user group
  • Roles
    • Roles, privileges and profiles
    • Best practice when creating different versions of a role
    • Managing roles
    • Assigning and Customising Roles and Privileges
  • Break Reasons
    • Managing break reasons
    • Break reasons overview
  • Holiday Lists
    • Create a holiday list
    • Manage Holiday Lists
  • Time Ranges
    • Managing time ranges
    • Creating and adding a time range
    • Defining rules for a relative time range
    • Defining rules for an absolute time range
    • Editing or deleting a time range
    • Copying a time range
  • External Destinations
    • Managing external destinations
    • External destinations

Calls Management

  • Simultaneous ringing overview
  • Scheduling a call
  • Direct calls overview
  • Call data reports
  • Call Flows
    • Call routing flows
    • Modify user-configurable parameters for call flows
    • Call Flow Tutorial
    • Setting up an auto attendant for BC/DR Treatments
    • Call Flow Templates
      • Call Flow Tips and Tricks
      • Call Flow Templates
      • Call Flow Template 1
      • Call Flow Template 2
      • Call Flow Template 3
      • Call Flow Template 4
  • Service Numbers
    • Managing service numbers
    • Update a service numbers call flow or user-configurable parameters
    • Update an existing service number
  • Campaigns
    • Viewing campaign progress
    • Importing lists of campaign numbers
    • Create an outbound campaign
    • Managing outbound campaigns
    • Managing campaign numbers
    • How do campaigns work?
  • Queues
    • Call queue introduction
    • Create a call queue
    • Managing call queues
    • Assigning agent groups to a call queue
    • Configuring agent outbound dialling
    • Configuring wrapup settings
    • Adding queue audio
    • Managing in-queue audio
    • Defining when in-queue announcements are played
    • Configuring opt in/out options for caller recording
    • Customising agent call recording buttons
    • Configuring call recording for queues
    • Defining call-queue KPIs
    • Configuring advanced settings for a call queue
    • Configuring callbacks for a queue
    • Configuring callback slots for a queue
  • Playbooks
    • Managing play books
  • Audio Files
    • Managing audio files
    • System audio files
    • Adding audio announcements
    • Text-to-speech overview
    • Uploading Audio Files
    • Generate text-to-speech audio
  • Area Codes
    • Create an area-code group
    • Managing an area-code group
    • Importing and exporting area-code numbers
  • Number Lists
    • Managing number lists
    • Importing number lists
  • Global Variables
    • Managing global variables
  • Surveys
    • Managing after-call surveys
    • How after-call surveys are handled
    • Configuring survey parameters
  • Call Slots
    • Managing call slots
    • Callback slot announcements
    • What are call slots?
    • What are callbacks?

Flow Management

  • Introduction to Routing Flows and the Flow Editor
  • Benefits of Routing flows
  • Managing Routing Flows
    • Introduction to Node types
    • Node Parameter Values
    • Create and publish a new routing flow
    • Making nodes available from the Node Type library
    • Configuring nodes in a routing flow
    • Configuring variables in a routing flow
    • Adding user-configurable values
    • User-configurable parameter options
    • Additional flow editor functionality
    • Managing existing routing flows
    • Importing or Exporting a routing flow
    • Routing Flow Templates
  • Standard Node Types
    • Call delivery and routing node types
    • Caller interaction node types
    • Branching node types
    • Outdial node types
    • Queue node types
    • Email node types
    • Work-item node types
    • Company configuration node types
    • External destination node types
    • HTTP node types
    • Integrated PBX node types
    • Webchat node types
    • Miscellaneous node types

Webchat Management

  • Webchat overview
  • How the web-client interface works
  • Managing Webchat services
  • Webchat data reports
  • Classifying a webchat
  • Webchat Queues
    • Configuring advanced settings for a chat queue
    • Creating and managing a webchat queue
    • Defining chat-queue KPIs
    • Defining when in-queue announcements are displayed
    • Webchat queues overview
    • Assigning agent assets to a webchat queue
  • Webchat Flows
    • Managing Webchat flows
    • Modify user-configurable parameters for Webchat flows
    • Webchat flow templates
      • Chat flow templates
      • Chat Flow Template 1
      • Chat Flow Template 2
      • Chat Flow Template 3
      • Chat Flow Template 4

Email Management

  • Email overview
  • Email data reports
  • Supporting a shared email address
  • Settings required for adhoc outbound email
  • Classifying an email
  • Email Servers
    • Email Server recommended settings
    • Email Server Setup Guide
    • Viewing the default system email server
    • Viewing the email servers’ status
    • How email servers and authentication work
    • Managing email servers
    • Email Server Setup Guide
      • Email 1: Setting up users for email
      • Email 2: Setting up groups for email
      • Email 3: Creating text blocks for email
      • Email 4: Preparing assets for email
      • Email 5: Creating email classifications
      • Email 6: Creating email queues
      • Email 8: Email server settings
      • Email 7: Email Flow Templates
  • Email Flows
    • Managing email flows
    • Modify user-configurable parameters for email flows
    • Email Flow Templates
      • Email Flow Template 1
      • Email Flow Template 2
      • Email Flow Template 3
  • Email Queues
    • Email queues overview
    • Creating and managing an email queue
    • Defining email-queue KPIs
    • Configuring advanced settings for an email queue
    • Assigning agent assets to an email queue

SMS Management

  • SMS overview
  • Configuring SMS Templates
  • Configuring SMS From Addresses
  • Create an SMS queue
  • Configuring automated SMS
  • Managing SMS queues
  • Outbound SMS data reports

Safe-Pay Management

  • Safe-Pay data reports
  • The cardholder’s view
  • How Safe-Pay works
  • Merchant Configuration
  • Configure Payment Queues
  • PSP Configuration
  • PSP – Link Delivery
  • Editing or deleting a payment queue
  • Configuring Safe-Pay
  • PSP – Additional Parameters
  • PSP – Advanced Limits
  • PSP – Digital Wallets for Stripe PSP Configuration

Agent Assets Management

  • Agent scripts overview
  • Configuring agent scripts
  • Configuring agent script sections
  • Configuring text blocks
  • Managing text blocks
  • Managing attachments

Data Management

  • Reports Management
    • Reports overview
    • Loading or creating a report
    • Scheduling report generation
    • Generating and exporting a contact report
    • Managing contact reports
    • Scheduling contact report generation
    • Agent scripts data
    • Offline Reporting
      • Managing offline reporting destinations
      • The offline reporting datastore
      • Offline reporting events
      • Agent call event fields
      • Agent status event fields
      • Call queue event fields
      • Contact call event fields
      • Missed call event fields
  • Report Types
    • Call data reports
      • Callers report
      • Call flow report
      • Calls report
      • Call transfers report
      • External destination report
      • IVR report
      • Queue transfers report
      • Scheduled calls report
      • Service-number report
      • Call Classifications report
      • Voicemail report
      • Unreturned missed calls report
      • Queues – Abandoned Calls Report
      • Queues – Service Level Report
      • Call trace reports
      • Dropped calls report
      • Queue report
      • Agent report
    • Status data reports
      • Break reasons report
      • Working hours report
    • Diagnostic reports
      • Activity audit report statistics
      • Status change report
    • Email data reports
      • Email agent report
      • Email flow report
      • Email queue report
      • Email classifications report
      • Inbound emails report
      • Outbound email agent report
      • Outbound email recipient report
      • Outbound email template report
    • Webchat data reports
      • Webchat agent report
      • Webchat flow report
      • Webchat queue report
    • Outbound SMS data reports
      • Outbound SMS agent report
      • Outbound-SMS recipient report
      • Outbound SMS template report
    • Safe-Pay data reports
      • Safe-Pay agent report
      • Safe-Pay payments report
  • Wallboards
    • Managing wallboards
    • Customising a wallboard
    • Wallboards overview
    • Filtering the Agents Overview widget
    • Filtering wallboard widgets
    • Filtering the call queues for Company Summary widgets
  • Classifications
    • Managing classifications
    • Classifications Overview

Customer-related tasks

  • CRM overview
  • Creating a new contact record
  • View a customer’s contact record
  • Modifying a customer’s details
  • Deleting webchat conversations from customer contact records
  • Importing customer details
  • Exporting customer details
  • Configuring custom fields and tags
  • Assigning tags to a customer record
  • Managing columns

CRM Integration

  • Contact CRM Integration Developer Guide
  • Salesforce Integration
    • Salesforce Integration overview
    • Salesforce Integration procedure
  • Zendesk Integration
    • Zendesk Integration Overview
    • Installing Contact in Zendesk
    • Contact Zendesk Integration
    • Using Contact with Zendesk
  • Care Connect Integration
    • Using Care Connect
    • Contact Care Connect
  • ConConnect Integration
    • Introduction to ConConnect
    • Configuring ConConnect
    • Install ConConnect
  • Microsoft Dynamics Integration
    • Microsoft Dynamics Integration overview
    • Microsoft Dynamics Integration procedure

System Management

  • Configuring system assets
  • Managing system themes
  • Managing media files
  • Displaying the online help
  • Microsoft Edge Integration
  • Configuring ODS codes for automated NHSE reporting
  • Configuring agents’ unavailability
  • Configuring what agents can view on their web portal
  • Configuring email editor options
  • Channel blending
  • Configuring system channels
  • Changing the blending formula of channels
  • Changing the importance weighting of a channel queue
  • Changing Agent Capacities
  • Configuring an SFTP destination
  • Managing reporting destinations
  • Diagnostics data reports
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Outdial node types

Outdial
This node type directs calls to a single destination.

This node type directs calls to a single destination.

The following parameters can be set:

ParameterHow many?TypeDescription
OptionsOptional parameters for the outdial.
Outdial Number0 or 1Phone Number
The telephone number to which calls are directed.

Note: If required, this parameter can be set to User-configurable so that it can accept a value specified by a company administrator. For more information, see Adding user-configurable values.
Timeout0 or 1IntegerThe ringing timeout (in seconds) if there is no answer from the destination.

Note: If required, this parameter can be set to User-configurable so that it can accept a value specified by a company administrator. For more information, see Adding user-configurable values.
Calling Number0 or 1StringAn optional variable or literal to receive the calling number.

Note: If required, this parameter can be set to User-configurable so that it can accept a value specified by a company administrator. For more information, see Adding user-configurable values.
Failure Reason0 or 1IntegerAn optional variable to receive the reason if the outdial fails.
Destination Call Leg0 or 1Call LegAn optional variable to receive the destination call leg.

The following branches can be taken:

BranchHow many?TypeDescription
Timed Out1The branch to take if the timeout is reached.
Busy1The branch to take if the destination is busy.
Call Failed0 to 10
SIP Failure CodeIntegerThe SIP failure code to match.

Note: If required, this parameter can be set to User-configurable so that it can accept a value specified by a company administrator. For more information, see Adding user-configurable values.
Other Failure Reason1The branch to take if a different failure occurs (the failure does not match any of the defined branches).

Connect Outdial
This node type marks the end of handling for a series of events. When an outdialled call connects, this node executes.

This node type marks the end of handling for a series of events. When an outdialled call connects, this node executes.

There are no parameters or branches for this node type. It is simply a marker for the end of a map.

Dial Contact
This node type makes an outdial call to a destination.

This node type makes an outdial call to a destination.

Note: If required, some of the parameters for this node type can be set to User-configurable so that they can accept values specified by a company administrator. For more information, see Adding user-configurable values.

The following parameters can be set:

ParameterHow many?TypeDescription
OptionsOptional parameters for the outdial.
Outdial Number0 or 1StringThe number to call. For example, sip:123@dest.com.

This parameter can be set to User-configurable.
Calling Number0 or 1StringThe number from which the call originates.

This parameter can be set to User-configurable.
Contact Call0 or 1CallLegAn optional variable to store the call leg if the outdialled call connects successfully.

The following branches can be taken:

BranchHow many?TypeDescription
Answered1The branch to take if the call was connected successfully.
Call Failed1The branch to take if the call was not connected.
ReasonStringAn optional reason why the call failed to connect.

Outdial Failed
This node type marks the end of handling for a series of events. When an outdialled call fails, this node executes.

This node type marks the end of handling for a series of events. When an outdialled call fails, this node executes.

There are no parameters or branches for this node type. It is simply a marker for the end of a map.

Outdial Request
This node type is a start point and will run when Contact receives an outdial request.

This node type is a start point and will run when Contact receives an outdial request.

The following parameters can be set:

ParameterHow many?TypeDescription
OptionsOptional parameters for the outdial request.
Outdial Number0 or 1StringAn optional variable or literal to receive the outdial number.
Calling Number0 or 1StringAn optional variable or literal to receive the calling number.
Agent Call0 or 1CallLegAn optional variable to store the call leg of the agent.
Call ID0 or 1StringAn optional variable to store the call identifier.

The following branch can be taken:

BranchHow many?Description
Next1This branch is always taken.
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Branching node typesQueue node types

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