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Vector in place of Auto Attendant

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SR7758

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Mar 11, 2002
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We are getting customers calling our main number after hours, but noone is available, so the receptionist phone rings and rings and rings and...well, you get it.
I need to create a vector in place of the current Auto Attendant. A call will come in, hear an announcement and ask for digits 1,2, or 3. 1 and 2 will route to our 24 hr customer service depts, if caller presses 3, they should get the Audix by name Derectory, and unconditionally, it will go to the receptionist.
First - How do I transfer calls directly to the Audix Directory without making the caller press *A from another mailbox?
Second - I believe I am correct in thinking that I can create a hunt group with just one member, the receptionist phone, and put "if staffed agents in hunt X > 1 goto ____." and it will queue to the receptionist - correct?
Lastly - To implement, do I just recreate the current Auto Attendant ext as a VDN? Or where would I change where the calls all go into?
Thanks in advance! S.R.
 
Recreate the Auto Attd extension as a VDN and point it to a vector.

In the vector, the line to send the call to the auto attendant should read :

messaging skill xx for ext yy

Where xx is the Audix hunt group and yy is the auto attendant extension number.

Queueing to the skill of the receptionist should work fine although I admin I've never tried it, but use "if staffed agents is skill x = > 0" instead of "> 1".

My standard caveat of "someone may well know a much better answer than I do" applies here, but mine should work fine.

Pete
 
When i try "messaging skill...", i cant change split to skill. Is it the same thing?
Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this...
Thanks. S.R.
 
Yes,
Sometimes it is confusing,all the terms for the same thing
But generaly speaking a hunt, skill, or split come down to the same thing, although their functionality might differ slightly.
Skill, is the term that is used in a Expert Agent environment where you can assign a "skill" level to a certain agent,and route accordingly, depending on their knowledge in a specific area.


Rob
 
I can't get it to work right :(
I just used this as an excuse to Upgrade the switch software from 4 to 10...this should buy me some time to think!
Thanks. S.R.
 
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