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Gabriele 1254 Thursday, 15 November 2018, 10:02 AM
Priority call in queue
Is it possible to set a sort of priority in a group's queue?
I would like those who call the toll-free number to enter the operator's queue first.
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Caspar 3621 Thursday, 15 November 2018, 10:19 AM
Re: Priority call in queue
Would making a route to another waiting que be sufficient? Personally I can't suggest a better solution.

After this, make a WQ-Toll with number 800, WQ-Other with 801.

Make them both active member in a group which your users are a member off aswell.

I think this works, kind of, phones should display the WQ name, so you "know" which caller has a higher priority.

Caspar
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Gabriele 1254 Thursday, 15 November 2018, 11:50 AM
Re: Priority call in queue
Hi Caspar,
It would be a solution but the customer does not want to leave the choice to the operator.

Gabriele
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Muschelpuster Thursday, 15 November 2018, 06:28 PM
Re: Priority call in queue
Unfortunately that is not possible out of the box. I had the same request ad I think that's a point for the wishlist.
I don't know how the agent can select calls from a special waiting queue...

You have to think about the call-handling a little bit deeper. What about the situation, that you have a lot of prioritized calls? Then the not prioritized caller should wait for hours in the waiting queue or is the a chance to answer this call too?
My customer decided for his case, that there a not so much prioritized calls and no other call should come through until the prioritized queue is empty.
That could I solve with the addition Windows-Software Queue-Monitor from Innovaphone. There you can log out the agents from the 'normal' waiting queue, if there are call's in the priorized queue. You can do this at a defined level. That works fine at my customer case after I learned enough about the many possibilities of this tool. And you get a little performance-log with this software.
But attention: you have to buy licenses per waiting queue, so you need 2 licenses!

Niels
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Ole 60 Thursday, 15 November 2018, 06:36 PM in response to Gabriele 1254
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Re: Priority call in queue
Here you have a solution for an advanced solution with several priority levels.
It handle also the problem that calls from lower levels have to be handled in between calls from higher levels if the traffic is high. Without this mecanism, calls from the lower levels can be lost on this level if new calls comes in to higher levels all the time.

Enclosed you will find the complete figure of the solution.

The real agents (level 0) are logged on waiting queue level 0, but on each lower level you need virtual agents with port lics. The GW register on these virtual agents. Number of virtual agents in each levels gives the number of calls from the lover level that will be put in between calls in the next level.

Ex: 5 calls direct on level 1, many calls on level 2 and one virtual agent between level 1 and 2. The first call in level 2 will be picked up by the virtual agent and routed into level 1. As long as these six calls are waiting in level 1, no more calls from level 2 are put into level 1. But as soon the first call from level 2 (picked up by the virtual agent) has been answered, next call from level 2 is put into level 1.

The solution is a bit complicated, but it works. Good luck smile
WQ_hierarki.pdf
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Gabriele 1254 Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 05:25 PM
Re: Priority call in queue
Thanks Ole!
Interesting, i will try to understand how it works ammiccante
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Thomas 4164 Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 02:50 PM in response to Ole 60
Re: Priority call in queue
I know this post is a little older, but it seems this is what I was looking for.
Unfortunatly I did not get it working, there is one thing I do not unterstand:

How are the calls routet back in the PBX to the next upper WQ?

GW12 registers at the virtual Agents, right? Where does GW11 register?

Is there anyone who has it up and running and can give me a hint?

Thomas
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Thomas 4164 Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 03:47 PM
Re: Priority call in queue
Just two minutes after pressing "submit" I found it myself, so there`s is no further help needed (I hope).

Thomas
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