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Routing of calls based on COR

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DJPlaZma

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Sep 29, 2005
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Ok, here’s the deal.

(givens: Station 6525, standard voicemail. Agent 3999 has no Voicemail. CM 4.0)

When we installed the call center it was set up so that it masked the 4-digit Agent extension when making in internal call. If Agent 3999 is logged in and calls someone it only says “Test Agent” on the display and not the “3999”.

In order to get Agent coverage to work correctly with the new AVST we had to un-mask the Agent login. Now when I’m logged in and call someone it displays “Test Agent” and then “3999”. The thought process behind this was to conceal the Agent login IDs so that people don’t call them directly, preferring people to call their 4-digit station extension instead. Direct calling Agents can skew CMS numbers.

Now that we’ve unmasked the Agent logins we are now susceptible to people calling Agent IDs instead of station numbers.

My goal is to make it so that if someone calls an Agent ID the call will re-direct them to that person’s four-digit station extension. Normally you would do this with a coverage path or a vector. HOWEVER, if you put a coverage path on an Agent it will affect the way the ACD handles the call as well.

Is it possible for a Vector to look at the COR of a station and, based on the COR send the call to a vector that covers to the person’s extensions number? (I realize that each one would have to be created separately.)

SO…to summarize:

Extension 6515 calls Agent 3999. Call should actually route to Station 6525.

ACD sends a call to Agent 3999 – Call is processed as an ACD call.

Or is there a way to accomplish this and am I thinking deeper than I should?


-DJ PlaZma
Single-Handedly Keeping the 80s Alive!
 
Why did the implementation of AVST cause the Agent logon ID to be unmasked? Masking the Agent ID only requires that the COS of the Agent ID has "Client Room" set to YES. Does AVST required the COS to have "Client Room" set to No?

Susan
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
- Anatole France
 
AVST requires the extension # to be put in the name field.
The integration is very very crude, and that's how they do it, it must be in the first 16 characters of the name field.

If it was me, I would just use a different (read: a real) voicemail system. If this system is an S8300 with CM5 for example, it comes with an IA770 license for free. You didn't say what type of system and what release you have.

Mitch


AVAYA Certified Specialist
 
Wow, what a pain.
Perhaps the AAR Digit Conversion Table could be used?

Susan
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
- Anatole France
 
Is the integration Q-sig - via E1?

I would block regular stations COR's from calling agent COR's. They'll be forced to call the station extension. Make sure the right COR's can reach the agent COR's.

Ideally an agent would not have a vmail box. But I've seen more than a few CC managers want it that way...

Also, If the agent must have a vmail box. Consider using the Alt extension feature in AVST to route both agent ID and station ID (or more ext's) to the same vmail box.

Wildcard
 
Not true Mitch672. But perhaps true depending on integration. Qsig does not require extension in the name field. AVST has a great deal of flexibility, it integrates to over 250 PBX's.
 
LOL...very nice. You should give AVST a good look sometime. In my experience AVST rocks.

Wildcard
 
Thanks for the replies!

We've got an S8720 with CM4.1.

I was trying to get around completely denying stations from calling Agents. The thought process is to be "nice" and have calls to Agents routed to the agent's station automatically. I know it would be administered on a per-agent basis, but as I go along it seems like being "nice" isn't going to be too easy...if possible at all.

BTW, the integration between the AVST and the CM is via Digital ports (7434ND).

-DJ PlaZma
Single-Handedly Keeping the 80s Alive!
 
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