Download PDF

Queue Management in Voice Campaign

Queues Tab in the Voice Campaign Settings allows you to create and manage the queues.

Queue Configuration

Figure: Queues Tab

Create Queue

Perform the following steps to create a queue.

  1. Click "Add Queue" button on the top right corner to create a queue. It shows the following page.

    Create Queue

    Figure: Create Queue

  2. Provide a name for the queue.
  3. Select a value for the queue priority. This value will be used for "Priority" type queues.
  4. Request Queue Type: It lets you define which customer customer will be served first if more than one customers are waiting in the queue.
    1. Queue FIFO: FIFO stands for First In First Out. If request queue type is FIFO and two customers are waiting in queue for agent, the customer who is first to reach in the queue would be connected first to the available agent.
    2. Queue Priority: Nodeflow can be used to decide the priority of any customer. Queue with "1" priority will be selected first. Similarly, Queue with "2" priority will be selected at the second place.
      Example:
      Question: If customer1 (who reached earlier) is waiting in Queue1 having priority 1 and customer2 (who reached late) is waiting in the Queue2 having priority 2, and if only one agent is serving both queues, then what will happen? Let us go through the following table.
      Queue Queue Priority Customer Agent
      Queue1 1 Customer1 Agent1
      Queue2 2 Customer2 Agent1

      Answer: In such a scenario, Agent1 will be connected first with "Customer1" as its queue - Queue1 - has higher priority.

  5. Resource Scheduler Type (Licensable): It will let you decide which agent would be connected to the customer when two agents are available to take the chat or call. Select any of the following options.
    1. LRU: It stands for "Least Recently User". As per this algorithm, the communication (chat or call) will be connected to the agent who has been used very least recently.
    2. Multiple Extension (Licensable): Select it if the agents have multiple extensions and they are supposed to attend multiple communications (chat or call) simultaneously. One agent can be connected to two customers in the same queue.
    3. Multimedia Based: Select it only if the agents have to take chat and Inbound calls simultaneously.
    4. Skill Based:Select it to connect the communication (chat or call) to that agent who have more skill level than others.
  6. Transferable: Select it to transfer the communication call or chat from this new queue to another queue.
  7. Provide a description for the queue.
  8. Assign Users in Queue: Select the users in "Available Users" section and click < icon.

    To unassign a user, select the users in "Assigned Users" and click > icon.

  9. Assign Skills in Queue: select the skills in "Available Skills" section and click < icon.

    To unassign a skill, select the skills in "Assigned skills" and click > icon.

    Sample Details

    Figure: Sample Details to create a Queue

  10. Click "Apply" to create the queue.
    Rather, you can click "Cancel" to discard the changes.

You can create multiple queues using these steps.

List of Queues

Figure: List of Queues

Edit Queue

Click "Edit" icon present in the list of the queues. The same page opens which opens at the time of the queue creation. You can change all the information entered at the time of the queue creation.

Sample Details

Figure: Edit the Queue

Delete Queue

You can delete the queue. Select the queue, which you want to delete and then, click "Delete" button present at the right top corner of the page. A confirmation pop-up comes up.

Delete Queue

Figure: Delete Queue

Click "Delete" button to confirm the deletion of the queue, else click "Cancel".