How the retry mechanism works in the Campaign Dialer
Depending on the action of the Agent, Customer, and UCC A Unified Contact Center, or UCC, is a queue of interactions (voice, email, IM, etc.) that are handled by Agents. Each UCC has its own settings, IVR menus and Agents. Agents can belong to one or several UCCs and can have multiple skills (competencies). A UCC can be visualized as a contact center “micro service”. Customers can utilize one UCC (e.g. a global helpdesk), a few UCC’s (e.g. for each department or regional office) or hundreds of UCC’s (e.g. for each bed at a hospital). They are interconnected and can all be managed from one central location. Settings the Retry mechanism may be different:
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Outcome of AnywhereNow ringing the Agent |
Outcome of AnywhereNow ringing the Customer |
End result as reported in SharePoint |
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Agent does not answer the call. |
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Processed = False Retries = Not Incremented Result = AgentHuntFailed |
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Agent answers the call, but unable to detect the Agent in the call after 5 seconds. |
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Processed = False Retries = Not Incremented Result = TimeoutWhileWaitingForAgent |
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Agent answers the call, but the phone number or SIP The Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, is a protocol for multimedia communication (audio, video and data communication). SIP is also used for Voice over IP (VoIP). SIP has interactions with other Internet protocols such as HTTP and SMTP. address of the Customer is invalid and cannot be invited by AnywhereNow. |
The Customer could not be called. |
Processed = True Retries = incremented Result = Invalid invite SipUri |
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Agent answers the call, but there is an Unknown failure that prevents AnywhereNow from inviting the Customer. |
The Customer could not be called. |
Processed = False Retries = incremented Result = Unknown |
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Agent answers the call, but disconnects the call while AnywhereNow is ringing the Customer. |
The call to the Customer is cancelled. |
Processed = False Retries = Not Incremented Result = AgentHungUpBeforeCustomerAnswered |
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Agent answers the call, but indicates the call went to Voicemail (by pressing the * key) while AnywhereNow is ringing the Customer. |
By default this action from the Agent will be ignored. However, if the UCC Setting “CallbackAllowAgentToMarkCallAsFailedBeforeCustomerAnswered” is set to True the call to the Customer is cancelled. |
If the UCC Setting “CallbackAllowAgentToMarkCallAsFailedBeforeCustomerAnswered” is set to True the outcome in SharePoint will be: Processed = False Retries = Incremented Result = AgentMarkedCallAsFailedBeforeCustomerAnswered
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Agent answers the call. |
Customer rejects the call. |
Processed = False Retries = incremented Result = CustomerRejectedCall |
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Agent answers the call. |
Customer does not answer. |
Processed = False Retries = incremented Result = CustomerDidNotAnswer |
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Agent answers the call. |
Customer answers the call and Agent indicates the call went to Voicemail by pressing the * key. |
Processed = False Retries = Incremented Result = CallWentToVoicemail |
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Agent answers the call. |
Customer answers the call. |
Processed = True Retries = Not incremented Result = Answered |
The invite is successfully processed if the agent and the customer (Invite) both picked up the call. In that case, the Agent Sip contains the agent which was in the call. The result field contains the result of the most recent attempt. The reported results can be found in the table above.
Retries field contains the number of retries. This depends on the settings OutboundDialerDeclineRetry and OutboundDialerDeclineRetryTime. If the maximum retry count is reached, the record field Processed is set to Yes.