From Bright Pattern Documentation
Contents
- Introduction
- Starting Your Working Session
- 1 Starting Agent Desktop
- Selecting a Phone Device
- Logging into Agent Desktop
- Installing and Updating the Agent Desktop Helper Application
- User Interface Overview
- Changing Your Agent Desktop Appearance
- Understanding Screen-pop
- Configuring Your User Profile
- Configuring Your Voicemail
- Listening to Voicemail Messages
- Call Forwarding
- Using the Calendar
- Getting Help
- Understanding and Handling Your States
- How to Interpret Your Current State Information
- How to Make Yourself Ready
- How to Make Yourself Not Ready
- Handling Calls
- How to Answer an Incoming Call
- How to Reject an Incoming Call
- How to Make an Internal Call
- How to Make an Outbound Call
- How to Send Numeric Information
- How to Use the Directory
- How to Redial a Previously Dialed Number
- How to Use Favorite Contacts
- How to Mute a Call
- How to Release a Call
- How to Wrap Up After Call Work
- Dispositions and Notes
- How to Hold and Retrieve a Call
- How to Make a Consultation Call
- How to Transfer a Call
- How to Host a Conference
- How to Participate in a Conference
- How to Place a Call in a Service Queue
- How to Connect a Voice Application to Your Call
- How to Use Prerecorded Messages
- How to Record a Call
- How to Stop or Pause Call Recording
- Voice Signatures
- How to Schedule a Follow-up Activity
- How to Send SMS Messages
- Participating in an Outbound Campaign
- General Information About Outbound Campaigns
- How to Review a Calling Record
- How to Reject a Calling Record
- How to Reschedule a Call Attempt
- Handling Service Chats
- How to Accept a Chat Request
- How to Reject a Chat Request
- Chat Messages
- How to Send and Receive Pictures and Documents
- How to Transfer Your Chat Session
- How to Create and Edit Canned Chat Responses
- How to End a Chat Session
- How to Send a Secure Form
- Handling Multiple Chat Sessions
- Co-browsing
- Handling Mobile Interactions
- Handling Email
- General Information About Handling Email
- Understanding Email Cases and Threads
- How to Accept an Email
- How to Retrieve an Email from the Team Queue
- How to Retrieve an Email from My Queue
- Overview of the Email Working Area
- How to Review an Incoming Email
- How to Mask Sensitive Data
- How to Close an Email without Replying
- How to Change an Assigned Email Service
- How to Transfer an Email
- How to Forward an Email
- How to Change Default Email Font
- How to Compose a Reply
- How to Use My Follow-ups to Send a Follow-up Outbound Email
- How to Use Cases to Send a Follow-up Outbound Email
- How to Send a New Outbound Email
- How to Save an Email as a Draft
- How to Search Email Cases
- Knowledge Base
- General Information About Knowledge Base
- How to Use a Knowledge Base Article
- Contributing Content to the Knowledge Base
- Other Useful Functions
- Dashboard
- Wallboard
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Ways to Request Assistance
- How to Use Internal Chat
- How to Report a Call Quality Problem
- How to Send Agent Desktop Application Logs to Your Administrator
- Ending Your Working Session
- Error Messages
Agent Guide
Starting Agent Desktop
The Agent Desktop application can be run on either Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X in one of the following browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Internet Explorer 10 (Microsoft Windows 7 only)
- Internet Explorer 11 and later (Microsoft Windows 7, 8, and 10)
- Safari 8 and later (Mac OS X)
View the complete list of system requirements in the Contact Center Administrator Guide.
How to Launch Agent Desktop
Step 1: Open your browser application.
- In the address field, type the web site address (URL) provided by your system administrator.
- The login dialog box will appear. Enter your username and password.
Step 2: Select phone device.
- Softphone (software phone) is the default. You may select a different type of phone to use, or even no phone.
- Refer to the Selecting a Phone Device section for more information on the supported types of phones.
Step 3: Log in.
- Click the Log in button.
- Refer to the Logging into Agent Desktop section for more information on Agent Desktop login.