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Release Notes

RingCentral Contact Center User Hub | Fall 2023

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes for RingCentral Contact Center User Hub. For Contact Center Central Release Notes, please refer to this page.

Coming Soon in Spring 2023 – User Hub

This page shows features currently planned for the Spring 2023 release. Features are subject to change between now and the final release dates. Users will be able to access these features, depending on their permissions and purchased applications, once their business unit has been updated. The online help continues to reflect the previous version of the product being used by most customers.

How to Use This Page

Each feature description includes a table that states whether the following details apply to it. ✓ means that the detail applies to the feature and ✖ means that the detail does not apply to the feature.

Customer Request The feature was developed by customer request.
UI Change The feature introduces major user interface (UI) changes.
Availability

When you can expect to see the feature in your environment.

  • On toggle — This is a major release. The feature automatically toggles on later in the release. If you've registered for Service Notifications, watch for one that indicates when that is.
  • On deploy — The feature is immediately available when the new release deploys to your environment.

Global Changes

End of Support for Windows 8.1 OS

Microsoft has announced end of support for the Windows 8.1 operating system as of 10 January 2023. Therefore, we will no longer develop or test against Windows 8.1 as of the Spring 2023 release. Support will be provided as of that time only for issues experienced on supported operating systems. Support for Windows 11 64-bit was added in the last major release. Some Contact Center applications may differ. Check the Platform Requirements page for the Contact Center applications you use.

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Removed Applications and Features

End of Support for Windows 8.1 OS

Microsoft has announced end of support for the Windows 8.1 operating system as of 10 January 2023. Therefore, NICE we will no longer develop or test against Windows 8.1 as of the Spring 2023 release. Support will be provided as of that time only for issues experienced on supported operating systems. Support for Windows 11 64-bit was added in the last major release. Some Contact Center applications may differ. Check the Platform Requirements page for the Contact Center applications you use.

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Google Verified Calls Discontinued

Google is ending use of their Verified Calls feature on 31 January 2023. If you're using this feature, contacts will stop seeing the verified calls UI when they receive phone calls from your organization after that date.

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Pages Removed from Tenant Management

Two pages will be removed from Tenant Management:

  • Users
  • Login Authenticators

Currently, you can create users and login authenticators in both Tenant Management and Admin. This functionality will be removed from Tenant Management. You will still be able to create users and login authenticators in the Admin application. This change will help you have a more consistent experience.

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AgentID Property Removed from Agent Assist Studio Action

The AgentId property in the Agent Assist Studio action will be removed from the Properties list. The field will be hidden and the script will automatically populate it with the appropriate variable name. This change will reduce confusion over which variable to use.

 

This update is described in more detail in the Studio section of this page.

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ACD

Tag, Location, and Station Profile Page Improvements

Tag, Location, and Station Profile pages will have a new look and feel, but their basic functionality won't change. The benefits of the updates include:

  • Reduced loading time.
  • Increased security.
  • A more modern page design.
  • Better ability to make significant UI and customer experience improvements.

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Contact Delivery Mode Setting Available by Default

New tenants will have the Delivery Mode setting available for their ACD users and teams by default. This setting lets you specify whether a team or ACD user can handle one or multiple contacts at once. The new default will let new tenant administrators specify delivery modes on a per-team or per-agent basis without  changing business unit settings in their tenant.

 

Existing tenants will keep their current contact handling settings. If you want to enable the Delivery Mode setting for your existing tenant, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

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Bullseye Routing Support in APIs

Some APIs will contain bullseye routing fields. This will enable you to view certain metrics and generate reports for bullseye routing.

 

This update is described in more detail in the API section of this page.

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Faster Return to Routing After Failover

Currently, Contact Center reloads all agent data following a failover before routing resumes. With this release, Contact Center will first load a minimal amount of agent data after a failover. This will allow routing to resume quickly and your agents to continue working sooner. Contact Center will continue to reload all remaining agent data while routing occurs.

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Admin

Improved Way to Set Agent Availability in WEM Skills

Improvements to marking agent availability will minimize user entry errors. You will set when an agent is available rather than unavailable.

 

User experience will improve as you focus on available time rather than unavailable.

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Support for Mapping Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) ACD Events in WEM Skills

With this enhancement, you will be able to map multiple agent states back to multiple activities. This will result in more accurate adherence scores.

 

The mappings will be automatically updated once deployed.

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Search by Username on Employees Page

Currently, you can only search by first name and last name on the Employees page. With this release, you will be able to search by usernames as well. This will allow you to find your employees' accounts more efficiently.

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New Permissions for BI Reports

Nine new BI reports will be added in this release. To use these reports, you will need to enable the following permissions in Admin > Security Settings > Roles and Permissions > Permissions > Reporting:

  • All reports—General BI Permissions > Report Viewer
  • Analytics Metric Comparison report (IA)—BI Reports > Analytics Metric Comparison
  • Analytics Metric Trend report (IA)—BI Reports > Analytics Metric Trend
  • Agent Skill Assignment—BI Reports > Agent Skill Assignment
  • Builder Billing—BI Reports > Bot Builder Billing
  • Contact States by Interval—BI Reports > Contact States by Interval
  • Callback Detail—BI Reports > Callback Detail
  • Digital Agent Contact Performance—BI Reports > Digital Agent Contact Performance
  • Intraday report (WFM)—BI Reports > Intraday Report
  • Skill Proficiency—BI Reports > Skill Proficiency

These reports are described in more detail in the Reporting section of this page.

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Agent Assist Hub

Google Contact Center AI SmartReply

Support will be added for the Google Contact Center AI (CCAI) SmartReply feature. SmartReply allows CCAI agent assist applications to suggest appropriate and relevant responses to agents in real time throughout the conversation. SmartReply responses will need to be set up and trained based on conversation data from your contact center. Suggestions from SmartReply will appear in the agent assist panel in the agent application. This feature will save agents the time of thinking of an appropriate response, so they can respond more quickly to contacts.

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Google Contact Center AI Confidence Scores

Google Contact Center AI will display confidence scores with the suggested articles it shows to agents. This will help agents to better determine how relevant the suggestions are to the current conversation.

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Agent Assist Studio Action Updated

The AgentId property in the Agent Assist Studio action will be removed from the Properties list. The field will be hidden and the script will automatically populate it with the appropriate variable name. This change will reduce confusion over which variable to use.

 

These updates are described in more detail in the Studio section of this page.

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Agent for Salesforce

See the Agent for Salesforce release history for a list of previous versions. The following features are included in version 23.0 and are planned for release in late March 2023.

Schedule Visibility Improvement for Dual WFM Integrations

If IEX WFM and CXone Workforce Management are enabled and the agent has permissions to both, agents will be able to see their schedules from both applications in Agent for Salesforce Lightning. This will allow agents to see their schedules without navigating away from the agent application.

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Manual Selection for Name and Relates To Fields

When this setting is enabled in Agent for Salesforce Lightning, it will require agents to manually select values for the Name and Relates To fields. This will allow the agent to specify the input for these fields instead of limiting it to the automated value.

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Restricting Directory History

When this setting is enabled in Agent for Salesforce Lightning, agents will not be able to call or transfer to numbers listed in the directory history. This will reduce the possibility that the agent incorrectly transfers the contact.

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Transfer Salesforce Objects with Calls

When a call in Agent for Salesforce Lightning is transferred to another agent, the Name and Relates To field values will be transferred to the receiving agent along with it. This will allow agents to be more efficient in handling transferred calls.

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Dutch (Netherlands) Language Support

Dutch (Netherlands) will be supported in Agent for Salesforce Lightning.

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Agent for Service Cloud Voice

The following features are planned for release in late March 2023.

Single Sign-On Capability

Single sign-on will be available for Agent for Service Cloud Voice and Salesforce. This will ease the login process for users.

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Omni-Flow Support

Real-time transcription will be available. Transcription will be dependent on the use of APIs. If you have questions regarding transcription set up, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

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Launch Indicators

When you enable launch indicators using Studio scripting, agents will be able to see them.

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Omni-Supervisor Additions

Supervisors will be able to use listen-in and barge-in capabilities.

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Real-Time Transcription Support

Real-time transcription will be available. Transcription will be dependent on the use of APIs. If you have questions regarding transcription set up, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

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API

Digital Engagements API Updates

The Digital Engagements API will have new endpoints and enhanced context regarding the authors of messages. A new authorization type will also be allowed in DFO endpoints. More information will be available on the Digital Engagement API page on the developer portal.

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Bullseye Routing Support in APIs

Some APIs will contain bullseye routing fields. This will enable you to view certain metrics and generate reports for bullseye routing. Bullseye routing fields will be added to the following APIs: 

  • Reporting APIs
    • /contacts
    • /contacts/{contactId}
    • /contacts/completed
  • Real-Time Data APIs
    • /contacts/states

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Bot Builder

New Rich Message Types

You will be able to set up your bot to send List Pickers and Rich Links in messages. These new message types will be available for the following channels:

  • Apple Messages for Business
  • DFO Chat
  • Facebook Messenger
  • Google Business Messaging
  • WhatsApp

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Marketplace

A new section of Bot Builder called Marketplace will allow you to discover bot skills that other users have published and add them to your own bot. Each bot user will also be able to publish bot skills to Marketplace with the approval of an administrator.

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Cloud Storage Services

Multi-Region Storage

Multi-region environments will be able to create rules that specify which region your files will be physically stored in. This will help you meet compliance requirements across the different locations where your agents work.

 

The policies set in Life Cycle Management rules will be consistent for all your regions. If you set call recordings to archive after 30 days, call recordings in all regions archive after 30 days. The files will be archived in the same region where they were stored.

 

The Classics, Inc. contact center is based in Oregon, United States and has other locations in Frankfurt, Germany and Sydney, Australia. When agents in any region log in to Contact Center, they are logged in to the platform based in Oregon. Classics, Inc., has enabled multi-region storage to store their call recordings in compliance with privacy laws in the EU and Australia. Their regional storage rules specify that call recordings must be stored in the same region where the agent handled the call.

  • When an agent in the Frankfurt location handles a call, the call is recorded in the base region of Oregon. The call recording is then physically stored in the Frankfurt location.
  • When an agent in the Sydney location handles a call, the call is recorded in the base region of Oregon. The call recording is then physically stored in the Sydney location.
  • When an agent in the Oregon location handles a call, the call is recorded in the base region of Oregon. The call recording is then physically stored in the Oregon region.

Call recordings in all three regions have the same Life Cycle Management rule. They archive after 90 days. When this occurs, the files are archived in the same region where they were stored.

 

When you retrieve files from long-term storage, Cloud Storage Services will search all your files in all your regions.

 

You will create multi-region storage rules in two ways: 

  • For call and screen recordings, you will specify a toll-free destination number for the target region. Calls handled using that number are stored in the region you specify.
  • For all other file types, you will configure regional storage rules based on the team, agent, and ACD skills that generated the file.

Multi-region storage will not be compatible with environments using custom storage or custom KMS.

 

You will need a special license to use this feature. Contact your Contact Center Account Representative for details.

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CXone Attendant

Search for DIDs by POC Name

When assigning DID numbers to CXone Attendant users, you will be able to search for provisioned DIDs by number or point of contact (POC) name. Currently, the DID drop-down list only allows searching by POC number.

This feature will provide an improved search experience when assigning DIDs to users.

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Sort and Filter Enhancements on Messages Tab

You will be able to sort and filter many columns in the Messages tab, including Status, Created Date, From, and Contact ID. Currently, the Messages tab provides limited sorting and filtering capability. This enhancement will make it easier to manage a larger list of voicemails. This will also allow you to perform a global search through the columns to easily find the records you are looking for.

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Delete Voicemail Messages

Currently, voicemail messages cannot be completely deleted. This may cause performance issues for customers with very high voicemail volume. With this release, voicemail messages will be completely deleted according to the time frame set in the Voicemail Retention setting located on the CXone Attendant tab of your business unit.

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CXone Supervisor

In-App Alerts

Supervisors will be able to set up and receive alerts for:

  • Agent states.
  • Negative sentiments (only available with RTIG license).

While configuring alerts, supervisors will be able to define:

  • Whether to receive alerts.
  • Whether to have an alert sound.
  • Thresholds for when to be alerted.

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Easy Access to Other Apps

Supervisors will be able to access the Reporting and Dashboard applications from CXone Supervisor.

 

They will be able to see these links depending on the licenses for your organization and the permissions assigned to them.

 

For more information, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

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View and Manage Agent ACD Skills

There will be a new Skills panel under the Skills tab in the Live Monitoring page. In this panel, supervisors will be able to:

  • View all agents assigned to the selected ACD skills.
  • Manage agents and their proficiency scores.

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Real-Time Interaction Guidance (RTIG) Overall Customer Sentiment

Supervisors will be able to view the overall sentiments of all the ongoing interactions at a glance. This will help supervisors focus on the problematic interactions.

 

This feature will only be available with RTIG license.

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Digital First Omnichannel

New Studio Actions

New Studio actions will be available for use in digital scripts. They will allow you to: 

  • Update the status of cases. Possible case statuses include Open, Pending, Escalated, Resolved, and Closed.
  • Send messages to a contact and not wait for a reply. This action will allow you to have a script or virtual agent bot send messages to contacts.
  • Update custom fields in customer cards.
  • Create custom fields for customer cards.
  • Add a note to a customer card.
  • Retrieve details from a customer card.
  • Update a digital contact with a new priority or targeted proficiency range. 

These actions are described in more detail in the Studio section on this page.

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Auto-Close Inactive Customer Contacts

You will be able to configure contacts to close automatically after a certain number of days have passed with no new messages. You will be able to the select the time period for the Default inactivity timeout on the Routing page. The maximum number of days you can select is 90 days. The default value for existing customers will be set to 90 days. For new customers, the default will be 30 days.

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Caseflow Redesign

The caseflow will be redesigned to address issues with contact synchronization. This will help prevent stale states and inaccurate statuses from displaying in both Supervisor and Dashboard.

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Restrict Visible Data by Teams and ACD Skills

When a user performs a search or looks at a customer card, DFO only shows data that user is allowed to see based on views they are assigned to. These view restrictions will be enhanced to restrict an agent's ability to view content by teams or ACD skills they are assigned to.

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Data and Report Updates

  • Web visitor data will be available in the data lake.
  • Reporting will be able to track which agent triggered a workflow automation (WFA) event. This will help users view the complete timeline for cases and messages.

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API Updates

The Digital Engagements API will have new endpoints and enhanced context regarding the authors of messages. A new authorization type will also be allowed in DFO endpoints. More information will be available on the Digital Engagement API page on the developer portal.

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New Search Query

A new query will be available to search cases. You will be able to search by email address using the query author =. This will help you find cases in the agent console more easily.

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Enhancements to DFO Quick Replies

The caseflow will be redesigned to address issues with contact synchronization. This will help prevent stale states and inaccurate statuses from displaying in both Supervisor and Dashboard.

  • Name Change—DFO quick replies that an agent can send to a contact will be called quick responses instead. This will help avoid confusion with quick reply functions that appear in other Contact Center applications.

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  • Custom Variables—Quick response variables will not be limited to available system options. Agents will be able to create custom quick response variables in the agent workspace. Agents will be able to create any variable they want for things like names, dates, account numbers, and so on. This will increase flexibility for creating quick responses best suited to your needs.
  • HTML Text Formatting—The quick response content box will have more text formatting options. You will be able to insert a table. Updates will also include enhancements to font size, color, and highlight color.

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  • Preview in Agent Console—Agents will be able to see a preview window of the text in a quick response before sending it to a contact. To see the preview of the text, agents will need to hover over the available options in the agent console. This will make it easier for agents to identify the appropriate quick response to send to contacts. This feature will be implemented later in the Spring 2023 release cycle.

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  • Menu in Manual Outbound Flow—The quick response menu will be available in the manual outbound flow. This will help agents communicate with contacts more efficiently. This feature will be implemented later in the Spring 2023 release cycle.

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Contact Center Email Settings Improvements

The process for configuring Contact Center Email in DFO will be the same as other channels. You will be able to:

  • See a list of all your existing Contact Center Email channels.
  • Rename existing channels.
  • Easily toggle manual outbound email ON/OFF.

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Rich Messages Settings

There will be a new button on the Points of Contact Digital page. It will allow you to access setup for all available types of rich content in a single place. This means you will only have to create a rich message once instead of configuring a separate one for each channel. Not all rich content types are supported for all channels. Rich content already created under TORM (Quick Responses, List Picker, and Rich Links) will appear in the new Rich Messages Settings. Other rich content that has already been created for Apple Messages for Business will not appear in the Rich Messages Settings.

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Rich Links (TORM)

Rich links allow you to configure links that agents can send to contacts to appear with an image, title, and subtitle. The ability to send rich links will be added to Google Business Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple Messages for Business.

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List Picker (TORM)

List picker displays a list of items and can include descriptions and images for items as well. The list picker functionality will be added to Google Business Messages, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple Messages for Business. Agents will be able to use these channels to send lists that contacts can select from. This will help contacts communicate their needs more quickly.

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Chat Window Independent from Agent Availability

Currently, the chat window is only displayed if there are agents online. With this release, you will be able to display the chat window even if no agents are available. Specific configuration in Workflow Automation proactive actions and Guide or in the JavaScript API will make this happen. When the contact starts a chat, they will be added to the queue as normal.

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New Look and Feel for Workflow Automation Conditions

The interface for adding conditions in Workflow Automation will be updated to provide a more streamlined experience.

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IEX WFM Integrated

Add-On: Employee Engagement Manager

Employee Engagement Manager (EEM) is a purchasable add-on for IEX WFM Integrated that supports schedule flexibility and enhances agent satisfaction in the contact center. In the Spring 2023 release, it will move from controlled release to general availability for organizations using IEX WFM Integrated. EEM offers significant benefits for all contact center roles.

 

EEM empowers agents to view and change their schedules from the convenience of any browser or from a smartphone app. Schedule-change options are matched to individual agents based on their WFM skills, preferences, and availability.

 

For supervisors, EEM provides a dashboard to monitor agent intraday performance. It also makes it easy to communicate with agents and WFM administrators via instant messaging.

 

WFM administrators can use EEM to analyze performance indicators and staffing level variances in real time. EEM also provides proactive recommendations when staffing adjustments are indicated.

 

Employee Engagement Manager automatically updates IEX WFM Integrated with schedule changes it receives. It enables you to automate and optimize up to 80% of your contact center’s manual intraday management processes. For more information on enhancing your IEX WFM Integrated system with Employee Engagement Manager, contact your Contact Center Account Representative. A minimum of 300 seats is required for this module.

 

 If you used Employee Engagement Manager in controlled release, you will notice these new features:

Interaction Analytics

More Filters for Search Page

The Search page will have new filter options that you can use to search all of your available data. You will be able to search by language, company profile terms, categories, and some commonly used metrics.

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Enhancements to Auto-Suggestions

When you add a metric to a dataset, category, widget, or filter, a list of auto-suggestions appears. This list will be updated to remove auto-suggestions that are not helpful.

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Reporting Updates

  • Enhancements to the Category Statistics Report—Incorrect calculations for Average Duration and Average Silence will be hidden at the dataset, category, and team level.
  • New BI Reports:
  • Analytics Metrics Comparison—This report will allow you to compare analytics metric data between two time periods you select. This will allow you to compare trends between individual metric types for agents or teams.
  • Analytics Metric Trend—This report will allow you to analyze metric trends in your data over a selected period of time. This will allow you to compare trends between different teams.

These updates are described in more detail in the Reporting section on this page.

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Language Support for European Spanish and Dutch

Users will be able to analyze interactions in European Spanish and Dutch (Netherlands) in addition to interactions in English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, and Spanish. You will be able to create separate datasets for each of these languages; that is, one language per dataset.

 

When you add European Spanish or Dutch (Netherlands) analysis to Interaction Analytics, a drop-down for language is available for dataset creation and for category and workspace templates. To support datasets in European Spanish and Dutch (Netherlands), you will be able to create custom categories, sentiments, and entities. Selected widgets and filtering capabilities will also support these languages. The Interaction Analytics user interface remains in English only.

 

Each language in addition to English is a purchasable add-on. Ask your Contact Center Account Representative for more information.

 

AutoDiscovery, Enlighten features, out-of-the-box annotations, and certain widgets will not be supported in European Spanish or Dutch (Netherlands).

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New Sales Effectiveness Enlighten Model

If you have the Interaction Analytics Premium Package and the Enlighten Sales Effectiveness Package, you will be able to use this new model to assess sales performance. This model includes 10 metrics for agent behaviors related to sales, such as Overcome Objections and Likelihood to Buy. These metrics will be added to the Enlighten Summary Widget and the Enlighten Behavioral Metrics Widget. You will also be able to use them to filter widgets and workspaces, and to create categories. You will also be able to view them when you drill down into individual interactions. These metrics will be available to export to CSV.

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Localization

The UI for Interaction Analytics will display in the same language as the user's default browser settings. If a language is not supported, the default display language is English. Areas of the application that are configurable, such as dataset names, category names, and widget names, will not be translated. Supported languages will include:

  • French
  • Canadian French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Dutch (Netherlands)

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Set Default Language in BackOffice

You will be able to select a default language for interaction transcriptions. This will be helpful if your call center mostly uses a language other than English. You will only be able to select one language as the default. Any other language aside from the default will still need to be configured in the skills section of Back Office. The default will be set to English if no language is selected.

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MAX

Manual Fax Override

You will be able to enable a manual fax override button for Personal Connection calls. This will quickly mark the numbers as fax machines.

 

This is described in more detail in the Personal Connection section of this page.

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Dutch (Netherlands) Language Support

Dutch (Netherlands) will be supported in MAX.

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Voice Quality Metrics Integration

You will be able to collect Voice Quality Metrics data for agents using Integrated Softphone in MAX. Voice Quality Metrics is an application for near real-time monitoring of the quality of voice calls in Contact Center. You can use the application to discover, diagnose, and troubleshoot call quality issues for contact and agent call legs.

 

If you don't currently use Voice Quality Metrics and would like to add it in advance of this new feature, talk to your Contact Center Account Representative.

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Manual Accept

When this setting is enabled, agents who are on an active voice connection in MAX will have to manually click Accept or Reject for any incoming contacts. This will allow agents to have complete control over when or if to accept incoming contacts. This feature will be released later in the Spring 2023 release cycle.

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Partner Applications

Tenant Management

Pages Removed from Tenant Management

Two pages will be removed from Tenant Management:

  • Users
  • Login Authenticators

Currently, you can create users and login authenticators in both Tenant Management and Admin. This functionality will be removed from Tenant Management. You will still be able to create users and login authenticators in the Admin application. This change will help you have a more consistent experience.

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Voice Quality Metrics

Monitor Quality of Service on WebRTC Agent Leg

Currently, Voice Quality Metrics monitors all SIP voice traffic. With this release, you will be able to monitor agents' WebRTC sessions. You will also get additional data, such as Internet Service Provider (ISP), location, average bit rate, average RTT, and other unique data specific to the WebRTC protocol.

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Extended Data Retention

Currently, you can only see calls for a business unit for the last seven days. With this release, you will have the option to select the date range for the calls you want to view. The largest date range is the last 30 days.

 

This feature will allow you to monitor and troubleshoot data with a longer retention period and to compare between weeks.

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Expanded WebRTC Data Elements with Filter and Export Capabilities

With the new ability to monitor agent’s WebRTC sessions, 14 relevant metrics will be added to the existing 32.

 

You will see the following data elements added as columns to the grid:

  • Agent Console Type
  • Agent Console Version
  • Average Bitrate (KBPS)
  • Average RTT (MS)
  • Browser
  • Call Setup time
  • ISP
  • Location City
  • Location Country
  • Media Transport
  • Operating System
  • OS version

You will also be able to filter the metrics and export them as a CSV file. This feature will enable you have more visibility on WebRTC metrics.

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Filter Enhancements

The filter window will be enhanced to group both the current and new filter metrics into four different categories:

  • QoS Metrics
  • Call Attributes
  • ACD Attributes
  • Web Attributes

This will shorten the process of filtering data and improve the user experience by making it easier to find the right filter metric.

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Integration with Call Quality Explorer

A new link for Call Quality Explorer (CQE) report will be added in the Call Details and Associated Contact Ids tab. This will open CQE in a separate tab. With this feature, you will be able to easily access the call’s associated contact ID, call events, and mega ladder.

 

You must enable CQE in Reporting permissions to see the link.

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Personal Connection

Improved Voicemail Laydown Accuracy

Contact Center will be able to deliver a voicemail when it reaches a voice mailbox with greater than 85% success rate. It will apply a disposition to indicate whether the voicemail was left successfully. This update will increase the number of successfully completed agentless interactions.

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Incorporate Canadian Postal Codes in the Regional Lookup

The system will be able to locate time zones from a phone number prefix or Canadian postal code. This information will be used to comply with regulations regarding what time of day calls can be made to contacts.

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Viewable and Modifiable Proactive XS Settings in Skill Management

You will be able to see whether Proactive XS interactions are currently active from the Skill Management page. You will also be able to make changes to them from the same screen. This will enable you to easily see the status of your Proactive XS-enabled Personal Connection ACD skills and quickly adjust incorrect settings.

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Manual Fax Override in MAX

You will be able to enable a manual fax override button in MAX. This will help agents quickly dismiss a call they identify as a fax machine and will allow them to move on to the next call faster. To enable the button, set Call Progress Analysis to Classify or Classify with Answering Machine Detection and select Fax in the CPA Management parameters page.

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Quality Management

New Options for the Evaluation Form Template Header Field

You will be able to add fields in the evaluation template headers of:

  • Evaluator Name
  • ACD Skill Name

The current Contact ID column is not searchable in Interactions. It will be replaced by the Master Contact column that will be searchable.

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Role-Based Access for Evaluation

Depending on the Evaluation view assigned to you, you will be able to see restricted teams and users in:

  • Quality Plans
  • My Tasks
  • Quality Plan Distribution
  • Plans Monitoring

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Multi-Path and Side-by-Side Recording Supported in Quality Plans

Recordings from CXone AppLink Side-by-Side in Contact Center and NICE Engage will be able to use the Quality Management platform to support their quality activities, including quality plan distribution.

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Additional Filters in Quality Manager Reports

In the Quality Manager BI reports you will be able to filter by:

  • Specific agents
  • Interaction date

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Accessibility

The Quality Manager My Zone pages will have an improved experience for users with visual impairment.

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BI Report Enhancement to Evaluation Question and Answer Analysis

There will be new filter options in the report results, including:

  • A drop-down selection which will allow the selection of a specific question within the evaluation form and version being reviewed.
  • A drop-down selection which will allow the selection of a specific answer on the question selected.

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Real-Time Interaction Guidance

New Guidance Behaviors and Alerts for Sales Effectiveness

A new set of guidance behaviors and alerts to promote sales effectiveness will be available in Real-Time Interaction Guidance. The new guidance alerts will allow you to give your agents insight into how likely their contacts are to make a purchase. You will be able to assign the new guidance behaviors and alerts to Real-Time Interaction Guidance profiles. Each Real-Time Interaction Guidance profile will support one set of guidance behaviors and alerts. For each profile you will need to choose either the customer satisfaction behaviors (the current option) or the new sales effectiveness behaviors. With the new behaviors set, you will be able to give your agents a tool that can help increase the number of sales they make.

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Sentiment Score in CXone Supervisor

Supervisors will be able to track sentiment scores for all live agent calls in real time. The sentiment score will appear as an icon beside the phone number in the Contact column on the Live Monitoring page in CXone Supervisor. The icon will change in real time to reflect an agent’s performance during a call. This will make it easier for supervisors to monitor if an agent needs coaching during a call. In addition, supervisors can create alerts when a call is below a configurable sentiment threshold to highlight a call that may require attention.

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Support for More Concurrent Agents and Supervisors

Currently, Real-Time Interaction Guidance (RTIG) supports up to 5,000 concurrent agents and 500 supervisors. Starting with this release, RTIG will support up to 6,000 concurrent agents and 600 supervisors. This will allow you to use RTIG with more agents and supervisors at the same time.

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Recording

Interactions Enhancements

  • You will be able to search for interactions by the evaluator who was assigned to them. A new Evaluator column will be available to display in the search results table.
  • You will be able search for an interaction by its unique contact number. A new Contact column will be available to display in the search results table.
  • The current Contact ID column, which displays the master contact ID related to an interaction, will be renamed to Master Contact to align with ACD reports.
  • A new icon will indicate which segments are part of a complex interaction. Clicking on a segment's icon will display all its related segments in the same interaction. The metadata, QM, and analytics information for each related segment will be displayed.

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Recording Enhancements

  • You will be able to configure after-call work (ACW) time for up to 45 minutes (2700 seconds).
  • Enhanced recording support will allow business data to be attached to all relevant segments in a call.
  • Improved recording alert messages will provide specific and more detailed information about the errors.

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Player Enhancements

  • You will be able to play a screen recording when the voice recording is unavailable.
  • You will be able to play an entire interaction when recordings for one or more of its segments are unavailable.
  • Error codes will be displayed in playback error messages to allow faster resolution of recording and playback problems.

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ScreenAgent Enhancements

  • ScreenAgent will be able to record a single call for up to 3 hours (+45 minutes ACW) before it automatically disconnects.
  • You will be able to install ScreenAgent with a digital signature.

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Reporting and Dashboards

Business Intelligence (BI) Reports

Agent Skill Assignment Report

This report will show the ACD skills each of your agents is assigned to. It will also show the agent's proficiency and the average proficiency for each ACD skill.

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Bot Builder Billing Report

This report will show Bot Builder usage data. It will show a breakdown of Bot Builder users by day and for the last 12 months.

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Contact States by Interval Report

This report will display the number of contacts that have been in each state, sorted into time intervals. These intervals will be in minutes or seconds, depending on the state.

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Callback Detail Report

This new report will provide more insight into contacts that experienced a callback state. You will be able to see the number of callbacks by day or month. You will also be able to view callback intervals by ACD skill. This report will help you see how quickly you address callbacks and identify areas to improve.

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Digital Agent Contact Performance Report

This new report will display information for digital skills and metrics specific to digital contact handling. It will include metrics for Avg First Response Time, Avg Agent Response Time, Avg Handle Time, Avg Focus Time, Avg Customer Responses, and Avg Agent Responses.

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Skill Proficiency Report

This new report will provide insight into agent proficiencies for all ACD skills. It will display the average proficiency of all agents assigned to an ACD skill. Proficiency levels will be ranked from 1-20, 1 being considered the highest or most proficient in that ACD skill. The report will show the number of agents at each proficiency level for each ACD skill. You will be able to drill down into each ACD skill by clicking Skill Name or Skill No.

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RTIG Report Enhancements

  • CSAT metrics will be renamed to Behavior Scores.
  • Behaviors and Phrase Alerts will be split into two separate grids to give a more detailed look at RTIG performance.
  • A new tab called By Contact will be added so that you can view Behaviors and Phrase Alerts by contact.

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New Interaction Analytics Reports

  • Analytics Metric Comparison—This report will allow you to compare analytics metric data between two time periods. You will easily be able to compare trends between individual metric types for agents or teams. You will also be able to navigate to more interaction details from the Interactions Trend graph in the report. To use this report, you will need to enable the Analytics Metric Trend permission. In Contact Center, go to Admin > Security > Roles and Permissions > Permissions . The permission will be under Reporting > BI Reports.
  • Analytics Metric Trend —This report will allow you to analyze metric trends in your data over a period of time. You will easily be able to compare trends between different teams. You will also be able to navigate to more interaction details from the Interactions Trend graph in the report. To use this report you will need to enable the Analytics Metric Trend permission. In Contact Center, go to Admin > Security > Roles and Permissions > Permissions . The permission will be under Reporting > BI Reports.

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Quality Management BI Report Enhancements

  • ACD Contact ID column—A column with contacts' unique ID numbers will be added to all QM reports.

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  • Recorded Interaction Date option added to Time Period filter—Currently, the Time Period filter in QM reports only applies to evaluation date. With this release, it will be broken down into Evaluation Submitted Date and Recorded Interaction Date in these reports:
  • Evaluations by Section and Question
  • Evaluations by Team
  • Evaluation Question and Answer Analysis
  • Evaluation Question and Answer Details
  • Evaluation Question Details

It will be broken down into Evaluation Start Date and Recorded Interaction Date in these reports:

  • Evaluation Details
  • Evaluator Analysis

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  • Agent Name filter—You will be able to filter by Agent Name in these reports:
  • Evaluation Details
  • Evaluation Question and Answer Analysis
  • Evaluation Question and Answer Details
  • Evaluation Question Details

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  • Replaced category—A category called Replaced will be added to the Evaluation Analysis report. This category will show the number of evaluations where the evaluator was replaced.

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New WFM Report

The Intraday report will display weekly forecasted data by WEM skills. It will help managers to compare the actual data with the forecasted data and identify areas that need improvement.

 

To use this report, you will need to enable the Intraday Report permission. In Contact Center, go to Admin > Security > Roles and Permissions > Permissions. The permission will be under Reporting > BI Reports.

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Conformance Metrics in WFM Adherence Report

The Adherence report will include conformance metrics. These metrics will show the amount of time agents spent in different scheduled activities. This will help managers evaluate agent productivity by day, week, or month.

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Notifications for Excess Usage of BI

You are allowed to have 10% of users in your system access BI reports at no additional charge. With this release, a notification will be sent to administrators when 9% has been reached and again when 10% has been surpassed.

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Data Download Reports

Improved Scheduling

Contact Center will adopt a new back-end tool for scheduling data download and custom reports. Instead of failing, reports run during high-traffic times will be queued until the system is able to process them.

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Prebuilt Reports

Column Name Change in Billing Report

The Time column in the Billing report will be renamed to Date to better reflect the data.

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Custom Reports

Custom Reporting Tool Tips

Various tool tips have been added to Custom Reporting. If you hover over a blue question mark, information will pop up to explain more about terms and features you're using.

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SmartAssist Powered by Amelia

Support for Amelia Version 5.6.3

SmartAssist will be updated to support Amelia version 5.6.3.

 

This feature will be deployed to all SmartAssist customers in advance of the Spring 2023 release. The current target date is January 2023.

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Studio

Changes to Categorization of Actions on Framework Tab

Changes will be made to the Framework tab in Studio. Some category folders will be renamed. Others will be consolidated to reduce the total number of categories. Additionally, all actions on the Framework tab will be located inside category folders. The Filter feature on the Framework tab will not be impacted by the changes. These changes will simplify the Framework tab and make it easier to find the actions you're looking for.

 

The Framework tab is not visible in Studio by default. It must be enabled by your Contact Center Account Representative.

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Agent Assist Studio Action Updated

The AgentId property in the Agent Assist Studio action will be removed from the Properties list. The field will be hidden and the script will automatically populate it with the appropriate variable name. This change will reduce confusion over which variable to use.

 

No action will be required from you to update your scripts. If you have an existing script that uses a different variable from the recommended ones, the system will automatically update your script. It will replace the variable you use with the recommended, default variable. The default variables are {agentId} for inbound scripts and {__agentId} for outbound scripts.

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New Studio Actions for Digital First Omnichannel

New Studio actions will be available in Studio for use in digital scripts. They will allow you to: 

  • Update the status of Digital First Omnichannel cases. Possible statuses are Open, Pending, Escalated, Resolved, and Closed.
  • Send messages to a contact and not wait for a reply. This action will allow you to have a script or virtual agent bot send messages to contacts.
  • Update custom fields in customer cards.
  • Create custom fields for customer cards.
  • Add a note to a customer card.
  • Retrieve a customer record.
  • Update a digital contact with a new priority or targeted proficiency range. 

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Virtual Agent Hub

Background Noise Handling for Voice Interactions

A new configuration setting will be added for use in virtual agent scripts for voice channels. The setting will improve user experience when the contact is in a noisy environment. Currently, if the virtual agent detects a lot of background noise, it may have a hard time telling the difference between the contact speaking and other sounds on the call. It may incorrectly interpret the sound as silence and treat the call as if the contact had not responded.

 

To prevent this outcome, you will be able to set a new timeout parameter in your script. This parameter, maxUtteranceMilliseconds, will start a timer as soon as the virtual agent detects audio on the call. When the timeout limit is reached, the virtual agent will attempt to determine the contact's intent from the captured audio. If it's able to determine an intent, the virtual agent will send a response. If it isn't able to determine an intent, the virtual agent will do one the following:

  • If it can detect that the contact is speaking but couldn't understand them, the virtual agent will respond appropriately. For example, it might ask the contact to repeat themselves.
  • If it cannot detect that the contact was speaking, the virtual agent will treat the interaction as if the contact has timed out.

This feature will be deployed to all Virtual Agent Hub customers in advance of the Spring 2023 release. The current target date is January 2023.

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Voice Access

Google Verified Calls Discontinued

Google is ending use of their Verified Calls feature on 31 January 2023. If you're using this feature, contacts will stop seeing the verified calls UI when they receive phone calls from your organization after this date.

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Workforce Intelligence

Rule Execution Frequency Changes

Existing rules that use the Automatic setting will be automatically changed when this release is deployed to your tenant:

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Workforce Management (CXone)

Net Staffing Bar for the Week View

The net staffing bar will be available for the Week view under the Schedule Manager page. The bar will show staffing conditions on a particular day of the week.

 

Having the net staffing view for a week will help in:

  • Evaluating the staffing at a broad level.
  • Making better staffing decisions for a week.

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Support for Partial-Day Trade Requests

Agents will now enjoy expanded flexibility to choose both partial- and full-day trades. Similar to how agents don’t always need a full day off, they don't always want to trade a full-day schedule.

 

Multiple trade configurations will be available to the agents for making trade requests.

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Multi-Factor Authentication for the Mobile App

The mobile app will support multi-factor authentication for agents when logging in. This authentication will be set at the organizational level, providing enhanced mobile app security.

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Forecasting—Editing Forecasted Volume, AHT, and Bulk Action

When editing the forecast data, you will be able to:

  • Select a single date or time and edit each WFM skill's forecasted volume and average handle time (AHT).
  • Target a specific volume or AHT range when bulk editing.
  • Normalize the forecast values to a new value in bulk editing.

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Manual WFM Skill Allocation

You will be able to define how the volume of a WFM skill will be handled by scheduling units. This will be done by setting a percentage that distributes the volume across the respective scheduling units.

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Cumulative Update 2

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

New Feature

This cumulative update introduces the Keypad in Conference Call Controls feature in CXone Agent, CXone Agent Embedded, CXone Agent for Microsoft Teams, and CXone Agent Integrated.

ACD

  • In some systems, transferred calls became stuck.
  • Users couldn't access hours of operation profiles if its expiration date was earlier than the current date. 
  • Users couldn't save changes made to the workflow data edit page. 

CXone Agent Applications

  • Agents couldn't disable the agent leg when they were on an active call. This made it impossible to end a call to the wrong number while it was ringing.
  • When an agent transferred a call and then accepted a new inbound call, sometimes the call controls didn't appear for the new call.

Developer Portal

  • For some clusters, running Admin API > General > DELETE /files on the developer portal failed with a Failed to fetch error.

MAX

  • When an agent entered text in an email reply while in the ACW state, the drafted reply was deleted when the ACW state timed out.

Personal Connection

  • In systems where predictive dialing was disabled, users couldn't update the Consecutive Attempts without a Live Connect field for dialer skills where the dialing ratio was 1.
  • In certain system configurations, dialer calls were automatically dispositioned as Answering Machine Left Message instead of routing to an agent.
  • Changes to call suppression settings didn't appear in the audit history for a dialer skill.
  • In some systems, the agentless dialer would reach a contact and fail to play a message. When this happened, it assigned an error disposition to the call. 

Platform

  • Rarely, users in a system lost access to many applications and pages in CXone.

Reporting

  • The Contact Details report didn't play chat recordings. Instead, it returned error 8202.
  • Sometimes the data extraction tool from a data download report would fail with a timeout error.
  • When agents applied tags to email contacts in MAX, some of those tags didn't appear in the Contact Details report. 

Studio

  • Users on the beta cluster couldn't open Studio scripts they had updated in the Fall 2023 version. 
  • The GRYPHON DNC V2 action didn't send optional variables like zip code and campaign name.
  • In some systems, the RUNAPP action produced an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.

Cumulative Update 3

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

New Feature

This cumulative update introduces the following feature:

  • Update Requires All Studio Users to Clear Studio Cache

ACD

  • Email contacts sometimes generated recordings that were several hours long. 
  • Interactions where the contact hung up in the IVR sometimes produced recordings that were several hours long. 
  • ACD skill profiles sometimes showed that edits were made by "not applicable". 
  • Users couldn't open ACD Skills unless they had the Hours of Operation View permission enabled. 
  • Editing the Workflow Data settings returned the error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request." 
  • Agents sometimes received a busy error when they transferred a contact to another skill. 

Admin

  • The Audit History tab of an employee profile sometimes showed changes that weren't made.

Digital First Omnichannel

  • The agent status in DFO and MAX didn't always synchronize correctly.

MAX

  • Contacts were sometimes routed to agents through a skill that the agent was no longer assigned to. 
  • In preview dialing, the Accept button didn't work.

Platform

  • Users couldn't log in to Contact Center with Federated Identity.

Reporting

  • For custom reports that included callback requests, transferred calls were associated with the original contact ID of the interaction, not the contact ID assigned to the interaction after the transfer.

Studio

  • In scripts that sent an email with a voicemail recording as an attachment, the email would sometimes send before the attachment was ready.
  • In some systems, saving a Studio script took several seconds to complete.
  • The Studio debugger sometimes returned the error "Could not load file or assembly." 
  • Studio would download an old version of Cefsharp instead of the latest. 
  • REQAGENT (digital) didn't work correctly when the default skill was selected. 

Minor Feature Release - December 2023

This page shows features currently planned for the December 2023 Minor release. Features are subject to change between now and the final release dates. Users will be able to access these features, depending on their permissions and purchased applications, once their system has been updated.

The online help continues to reflect the previous version of the product being used by most customers.

Removed Applications and Features

Dashboard Application Replaced

The current Dashboard application will be removed from Contact Center. You will no longer be able to access or use it. Your system will migrate to the new CXone Dashboard application for a similar but improved experience.

The new CXone Dashboard doesn't currently support FedRAMP. Until it does, FedRAMP-enabled systems will include the current Dashboard application but not the new CXone Dashboard.

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New Applications

CXone Dashboard

The new CXone Dashboard will be a powerful application that brings your contact center information together in one place. It will provide real-time, intraday, and historical insights with enhanced visualization.

 

The dashboard will give a complete operational picture, making it easy to understand complex information by collecting data from different channels, like digital and voice. It will deliver actionable insights relevant to various roles within the contact center, allowing everyone access to business-critical KPIs.

 

Customers who have been using CXone Dashboard in controlled release will notice these new features:

  • The CXone Dashboard application will be user-friendly, with ready-to-use widgets for visualizing data from CXone ACD, DFO, Guide, Quality Management, and Interaction Analytics.
  • Customizable widgets for any specific metric across the Contact Center platform will be available.
  • Users will be able to create, share, export, and project dashboards. Its improved interface will provide a better user experience, ensuring faster performance and an overall better experience.

In the December Minor 2023 release, the CXone Dashboard will become generally available. It is currently in a controlled release (CR).

  • All users of the legacy User Hub Dashboard, excluding those with FedRAMP environments, will be automatically migrated to the new CXone Dashboard application.
  • Dashboards created with the legacy Dashboard, will be automatically migrated to the new CXone Dashboard.
  • Tenants in FedRAMP environments will continue using the legacy dashboard until the new dashboard application receives FedRAMP certification.

For more information, see the CXone Dashboard migration guide.

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CXone Agent Desktop and Mobile Apps

CXone Agent will be available for download as a desktop app and a mobile app. These apps will be able to run in the background and display notifications to the agent directly on their computer or mobile device, enhancing productivity and performance.

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Load Previous Digital Messages

Agents will be able to load older messages from the contact to see their past interactions with other agents. This applies to:

  • Chats
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Social messages
  • Social platform interactions
  • WhatsApp messages

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Performance Report

The Performance report will be available inside CXone Agent. It will show agents the number of inbound, outbound, and total interactions they handled for a selected time period. It will have the same features and functionality as the Performance report in MAX.

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Contact History Loading

When the agent first opens the Contact History space, it will show a limited number of interactions. As the agent scrolls, it will show more interactions. This will decrease the amount of time Contact History takes to load when opened.

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CRM Workflow Errors in Studio Trace

Error messages from your CRM about the workflows you've created for your agents, such as Search, Create, and Data Memorialization, will appear in the Studio scripts you configured for those workflows. They will appear in the Studio trace window.

 

To see this feature, clear your cache in Studio.

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Unified Design for Contact History, Queue, and Search

Currently, the Contact History, Queue, and Search spaces each have their own unique layout. In this release, the layout of Contact History and Queue will be changed to match the current layout of Search. All three spaces will display information in a table. This will simplify the user experience.

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Agent Assist Hub

Integrations Menu Item Renamed to Automation and AI

The Integrations menu item in Contact Center will be renamed to Automation and AI. This is where you can find Agent Assist Hub. It's located in the Others section of the menu that appears when you click the app selector.

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CXone Agent Embedded

Load Previous Digital Messages

Agents will be able to load older messages from the contact to see their past interactions with other agents. This applies to:

  • Chats
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Social messages
  • Social platform interactions
  • WhatsApp messages

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Performance Report

The Performance report will be available inside CXone Agent Embedded. It will show agents the number of inbound, outbound, and total interactions they handled for a selected time period. It will have the same features and functionality as the Performance report in MAX.

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Contact History Loading

When the agent first opens the Contact History space, it will show a limited number of interactions. As the agent scrolls, it will show more interactions. This will decrease the amount of time Contact History takes to load when opened.

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CRM Workflow Errors in Studio Trace

Error messages from your CRM about the workflows you've created for your agents, such as Search, Create, and Data Memorialization, will appear in the Studio scripts you configured for those workflows. They will appear in the Studio trace window.

 

To see this feature, clear your cache in Studio.

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Unified Design for Contact History, Queue, and Search

Currently, the Contact History, Queue, and Search spaces each have their own unique layout. In this release, the layout of Contact History and Queue will be changed to match the current layout of Search. All three spaces will display information in a table. This will simplify the user experience.

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CXone Agent for Microsoft Teams

Integration with Microsoft Outlook Calendar

Commitments created in the Schedule space of CXone Agent for Microsoft Teams will appear in Microsoft Outlook. The agent's Outlook calendar will update each time a commitment is created, edited, or deleted. Outlook will notify agents of upcoming commitments.

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Additional Language Support

CXone Agent for Microsoft Teams will support two new languages: German and French.

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Load Previous Digital Messages

Agents will be able to load older messages from the contact to see their past interactions with other agents. This applies to:

  • Chats
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Social messages
  • Social platform interactions
  • WhatsApp messages

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Performance Report

The Performance report will be available inside CXone Agent Embedded. It will show agents the number of inbound, outbound, and total interactions they handled for a selected time period. It will have the same features and functionality as the Performance report in MAX.

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Contact History Loading

When the agent first opens the Contact History space, it will show a limited number of interactions. As the agent scrolls, it will show more interactions. This will decrease the amount of time Contact History takes to load when opened.

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Currently, the Contact History, Queue, and Search spaces each have their own unique layout. In this release, the layout of Contact History and Queue will be changed to match the current layout of Search. All three spaces will display information in a table. This will simplify the user experience.

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Agent for Salesforce

See the Agent for Salesforce release history for a list of previous versions.

WatchRTC SDK Integration

The WatchRTC SDK will be integrated with Agent for Salesforce. It provides an overview of WebRTC health for your organization. It will automatically collect application and user data for you to analyze. Integrated Softphone and Voice Quality Metrics must be enabled in your system before you can use it.

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Agent for SCV

Real-Time Sentiment Analysis

In this release, Service Cloud Voice will support real-time sentiment analysis of call conversations. Agents and supervisors will be able to view turn-by-turn sentiment. They will also have access to call recordings from previous conversations.

This feature will allow supervisors to do the following:

  • Identify positive or negative experiences between agents and contacts.
  • Listen to recorded call segments.
  • Improve agent training based on the sentiment analysis.

This feature will only be available for Salesforce organizations in North America.

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CXone Agent Integrated

Load Previous Digital Messages

Agents will be able to load older messages from the contact to see their past interactions with other agents. This applies to:

  • Chats
  • Email
  • SMS
  • Social messages
  • Social platform interactions
  • WhatsApp messages

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Performance Report

The Performance report will be available inside CXone Agent Embedded. It will show agents the number of inbound, outbound, and total interactions they handled for a selected time period. It will have the same features and functionality as the Performance report in MAX.

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Contact History Loading

When the agent first opens the Contact History space, it will show a limited number of interactions. As the agent scrolls, it will show more interactions. This will decrease the amount of time Contact History takes to load when opened.

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CRM Workflow Errors in Studio Trace

Error messages from your CRM about the workflows you've created for your agents, such as Search, Create, and Data Memorialization, will appear in the Studio scripts you configured for those workflows. They will appear in the Studio trace window.

 

To see this feature, clear your cache in Studio.

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Unified Design for Contact History, Queue, and Search

Currently, the Contact History, Queue, and Search spaces each have their own unique layout. In this release, the layout of Contact History and Queue will be changed to match the current layout of Search. All three spaces will display information in a table. This will simplify the user experience.

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Cloud TTS

Integrations Menu Item Renamed to Automation and AI

The Integrations menu item in Contact Center will be renamed to Automation and AI. This is where you can find Cloud TTS Service. It's located in the Others section of the menu that appears when you click the app selector.

Cloud TTS Menu Option Renamed

The menu option to launch Cloud TTS will be renamed to Cloud TTS Hub. Currently, this menu option is found in the Integrations section in Contact Center. In this release, it will be found in the Automation and AI section.

DEVone Integrations

Frontline Agent Client for Kustomer

You will be able to embed the Frontline Agent Client (FAC) into the Kustomer CRM. This will let agents handle conversations from one screen all within the CRM. FAC will be powered by Contact Center infrastructure and integrate with the functionality of Kustomer. For example, new interactions automatically create conversations in Kustomer.

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API Signature Service

The API signature service is an API that will let you enhance your security with the following features:

  • Create JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  • Support for RSA signatures
  • Support for RSA and AES encyption and decryption
  • Support for hash and HMAC hash
  • Using certificates for the above features

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Feedback Management

These features will be available later in the release cycle, in January 2024.

Added Survey Substatuses

Two new substatuses will help you monitor IVR engagement. They will help you determine why contacts didn't take a survey they agreed to take while waiting in a call queue.

  • Skipped: No Warm Transfer to Survey: The agent failed to connect the contact to the survey. This substatus appears in the invitation charts and the Invitations and Responses page.

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  • Not Sent: Hung Up in Queue: The contact hung up after agreeing to take the survey but before being connected with an agent. The Survey Invitation Detail chart will show the real-time count of contacts who meet the described criteria. Feedback Management won't report additional information about the contacts, and their contact records won't be available anywhere in Feedback Management. This feature will only be available for customers migrating from ECHO to Feedback Management.

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Undo and Redo Buttons in Text Editors

In text editors throughout Feedback Management, undo and redo buttons will be available. These will allow you to undo your most recent action in the text editor and to redo an action you just undid.

This feature will not be available on the Web Intercept page.

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CXone Guide

New and Returning Visitors Rule Condition

The New and Returning Visitors condition will be available when creating CXone Guide engagement rules. With this condition, you will be able to display proactive offers to visitors based on their visit history:

  • First time visitors: Display proactive offers that are specific to first-time visitors. For example, you may want to display a proactive offer that includes a welcome message for new visitors.
  • Returning visitors: Display proactive offers that are specific to returning visitors. You can specify how many times they visited within a certain time period. For example, you may want to display a proactive offer specifically for returning users who visited three or more times within the past 14 days.

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Partner Applications

Tenant Management

CXone Supervisor: New License Option

In this release, a new license option called CXone Supervisor CSAT will be available for the CXone Supervisor license.

 

Organizations with the Enlighten AI CSAT package will have the CXone Supervisor CSAT license and will be able to access the Urgent Assist feature in the CXone Supervisor application.

 

For more details about this feature, select the CXone Supervisor filter on the top right.

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Personal Connection

Add Templates and Variables to Proactive WhatsApp

You will be able to include templates and variables when sending messages to contacts on Proactive WhatsApp. This enhancement will increase the business value for WhatsApp and allow organizations to push out personalized messages to their users.

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Reporting and Dashboards

Improved Security for Direct Data Access

Currently, you log in to Direct Data Access using a username and password. In this release, Direct Data Access will support a new authentication method. You will be able to use an access key and a secret key for your login credentials. Eventually, you will only use these keys instead of a username and password. This will enhance security and help protect your information.

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CXone Supervisor

Urgent Assist Alert

Supervisors will now be able to configure the Urgent Assist alert.

 

This alert will use the AI-based Urgent Assist model. This model is meticulously trained on cross-industry patterns and trends. The model helps to predict the precise moment to alert supervisors when they should step in and support their agents.

 

This alert will be available as a part of the Enlighten AI CSAT package with the CXone Supervisor CSAT license.

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Agent Schedule

Supervisors will now be able to see their agents' daily schedules to know their current and upcoming activities for the day. ​

The daily schedule will help supervisors to make better re-skill decisions when balancing queue load.

 

To see the agent schedule, you will have to enable the permission: WFM Scheduling Schedule Manager > View.

 

This feature will be available to users with the CXone Workforce Management license.

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Integrations Menu Item Renamed to Automation and AI

The Integrations menu item in Contact Center will be renamed to Automation and AI. This is where you can find Agent Assist Hub. It's located in the Others section of the menu that appears when you click the app selector.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

All Transcription Options Available in Transcription Hub

A new hub will be added to the Automation and AI section of Contact Center. Transcription Hub will house all of the options for transcription supported in Contact Center. This will make it easier to manage transcription for all of your applications in Contact Center.

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Cloud Transcription Service Renamed and Moved

CXone Cloud Transcription Service will be renamed to Turn-by-Turn Transcription. It will be moved under the new Transcription Hub menu option in the Automation and AI section in Contact Center. The new name reflects the way this transcription service is used in Contact Center.

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Virtual Agent Hub

Integrations Menu Item Renamed to Automation and AI

The Integrations menu item in Contact Center will be renamed to Automation and AI. This is where you can find Agent Assist Hub. It's located in the Others section of the menu that appears when you click the app selector.

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Cumulative Update 4

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

ACD

  • When an agent using a work item skill that required a disposition transferred a work item to a skill that didn't require a disposition, the work item stayed with the original agent and wouldn't transfer. 
  • When a user's name included Japanese characters, the ACD screen didn't display correctly. 
  • When an agent script became stuck, calls wouldn't route to available agents. 
  • In some systems, contacts became stuck and weren't routed to agents.

CXone Agent

  • When a DFO SMS case routed to an agent inbox, an error icon appeared.

Studio

  • When SNIPPET actions contained a RestProxy object that accessed urlencode, an error was returned. (ORC-29155)
  • Rarely, script traces would stop running after a GET_CUSTOM_FIELDS_CC_CONTACT action. The log showed a "null pointer" error. 

Cumulative Update 5

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

ACD

  • Hours of operation frequently threw exceptions when the browser was set to a language other than English.
  • In some dynamic delivery routing environments, agents would set their state to Available and immediately have it change to Unavailable - Refused.
  • When an invalid contact was routed, the assigned agent was automatically placed in a Refused state.
  • Interactions where the contact hung up in the IVR sometimes produced recordings that were several hours long.
  • The Workflow Data page sometimes showed a "rate exceeded" error that resulted in users not being able to make updates to Workflow Data.
  • Workflow Data pages sometimes returned a "bad request" error when users tried to make updates.
  • When a user's name included Japanese characters, the ACD screen didn't display correctly.
  • The SETAGENT Studio action allowed you to set a supervisor’s CXone Agent state to Available while they were actively monitoring agents in CXone Supervisor. When a supervisor is Available and receives a call while they’re monitoring, the supervisor’s call merges with the call of the agent they’re monitoring, coaching, barging, or taking over. SETAGENT can no longer change a supervisor’s agent state to Available while they’re monitoring agents. It takes the On Error branch instead. You can use the On Error branch to redirect the contact, for example, to voicemail or to another agent or skill. Alternatively, you can add logic to your script that bypasses the SETAGENT to Available logic if the supervisor’s agent state is the system Unavailable state or a custom Unavailable state used specifically for monitoring. Your script must then reroute the contact. The SETAGENT page contains more information about preventing this issue.

API

  • In v27, GET/agents/state-history took a long time to execute and sometimes timed out.

CXone Agent

  • Commitments were scheduled for the default business unit time zone instead of the selected time zone.
  • When an agent refused an inbound call and returned to Available shortly after, their state changed to Working and they couldn't receive new calls.

Reporting

  • In report schedules, sometimes the schedule recurrence settings weren't saved correctly.
  • In the Abandon Rate Compliance report, the Answered column always showed a value of 0.

Studio

  • In some linked script scenarios, the child script didn't return to the parent script.
  • REST API ACTION took the error branch while executing any REST API endpoint URL.
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