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Select an agent desktop from the Desktops drop-down list box under your client name. Important settings include the following:

• Desktop ID - LiveVox assigned a unique desktop identifier code.
• Name - Displays the name of the selected Agent Desktop.
• Description - Displays a brief description of the selected Agent Desktop.
• Max Conference Parties - Select from the drop-down list, the maximum number of participants that can be added by an agent into to the conference (minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 10).  
• Desktop Mode - Select the agent desktop mode from the drop-down list. Available options are:
  • Voice Agent - Allows you to configure a voice-centric agent desktop. This mode logs an agent into the voice channel with a focus on the Unified Agent Desktop. l You can select the following agent desktop options:
    
    • Agent Panel - Provides the single-agent panel view of the Agent Desktop.
    • Agent Panel + Extended Panel - Provides the single-agent panel with the multiple widget view of the Agent Desktop. Selecting the extended panel will display a new tab, Extended Panel.
    • Agent Panel + Designer - Provides the single-agent panel with the designer agent desktop view of the Agent Desktop. Selecting this option will display a new tab, Designer.
      
  • Digital Agent - Allows you to configure Email, SMS, and Chat-centric agent desktop. This mode logs an agent into messaging channels with a focus on consumer digital interactions. You can select the following agent desktop options:
    • Agent Panel + Extended Panel - Provides agent desktop in full screen with extended panel widgets. Selecting the extended panel will display a new tab, Extended Panel.
    • Agent Panel + Designer - Provides agent desktop in full screen with designer panel pages. Selecting this option will display a new tab, Designer.
      
  • Knowledge Worker - Allows you to configure desktop for your back-office agents. When you select Knowledge Worker from the Desktop Mode drop-down list, the Agent Logged In as Ready checkbox is selected by default. This places the agents automatically in the Ready status when they log on. Agents are not required to enter an account number when initiating an interaction or enter a termination code when ending an interaction. You can select the following agent desktop options:
    • Agent Panel + Extended Panel - Provides agent desktop in full screen with extended panel widgets. Selecting the extended panel will display a new tab, Extended Panel.
    • Agent Panel + Designer - Provides agent desktop in full screen with designer panel pages. Selecting this option will display a new tab, Designer.

This tab provides different options to set the current agent desktop and call transfer options.

  Settings

• Call Record Control Enabled - When selected, allows agents to pause/resume or stop call recording.
• Notes Enabled - When selected, allows agents to utilize a free-form text field that can be stored and exported to the CDR. Limit of 4000 characters.
• Account Number Validation for Inbound and Manual Calls - When checked, the agent needs to validate the account number that does not exist in the contact manager and is allowed to dial the existing account numbers.
• Account Number Required - When selected, requires the agent to enter an account number when no account is associated with the dialed phone number on an Inbound or Manual call.
• Display Not Ready Reason Codes - When selected, allows agents to choose a sub-code, also referred to as break code to further define why they are not able to take calls.
  • List of Not Ready Sub Codes - These are non-configurable 
    • Lunch
    • Training
    • Break Time
    • Meeting
    • Technical Difficulty
    • Other

The Not Ready Sub Codes are non-configurable.

• Hold Enabled - Select the checkbox to display the Hold button on Agent Desktop.
• Screen Recording Control Enabled - When selected, allows agents to pause/resume or stop screen recording by using call control buttons.
• Screen Recording Control Percentage - Allows you to select the percentage of calls to be screen recorded.

• Messagebook Enabled: Indicates if the voice messagebook button appears on the Agent Panel for calls.
• Force Specific Case - enables specific cases that will be autoformatted on agent entered account number. Available options are as given below:

  • None - This is a default option. If selected, the account number will be the way the agent enters it.

  • Upper - The account number will be in the upper case.

  • Lower - The account number will be in the lower case.

• Quick Responsebook: Enables you to select a quick responsebook for chat. A quick responsebook contains quick responses, which are common chat messages that your agents can send to customers when chatting.

Transfer Options

• Transfer Option Enabled - Enables the transfer button for agents to initiate Manual, Agent to Agent, or Phonebook Entry transfers.
• Agent To Agent Transfer Enabled - Allows agents to transfer calls to other available agents. Click the link next to the checkbox. You will have a default option and a custom option for an agent-to-agent transfer configuration. 
  • Default - Allows agents to transfer calls to other agents within the same call center.
  • Custom - Select the required option to transfer to specific agents based on Service, Service Group, or Agent Teams.
    • Service -  Allows the transfer to agents within the same service the agent is logged into.
    • Service Group -  Allows the transfer to agents that are logged into the selected Service Group.
    • Agent Teams - Allows the transfer to agents that are logged in and the part of the specified Agent Teams.
• Manual Transfer Enabled - Allows agents to manually transfer a call.
• Phonebook Transfer Enabled - Allows agents to transfer calls to predefined phone book entries.

This tab allows you to set configurations that enable the agent's full screen to be recorded. The configurations include:

  Settings

• Native Mode - Allows you to set the native desktop mode from the available drop-down list. Available options are as given below :
  • Disabled - Agent cannot log in using Agent Desktop Native (ADN)
  • Optional - Agent can use the browser or ADN to log in
  • Required - Agent can log in only using ADN
• Update Strategy - Allows you to configure the native desktop update strategy. Available options are as given below :
  • Ok - No restriction to use any version of ADN
  • Ask - If the agent has a different version installed than the one configured for the site, a pop-up prompting an update appears.
  • Force - After login, the update process gets triggered automatically, installing, and starting the new version without intervention.
• Whitelist Addresses - Click the link to open the Whitelist addresses configuration interface that allows you to view and manage the list of all the approved addresses for the Desktop Native application.

Screen Recording Options (when enabled)

This section is displayed only if agent screen recording is enabled. Contact your Account Executive/Account Manager to request this functionality.

• Screen Recording Enabled - When selected, allows the agents to record their full screen.
• Format - The screen recording video format is WebM. WebM is an open media file format designed for the web. 
• Bitrate (kbps) - Allows you to set the number of bits that are conveyed per unit of time (kilobytes per second) for the screen recording video. The available options are: 128, 256, 512, 1024. The default option is 128 kbps.
• Framerate (FPS) - Allows you to set the number of frames displayed per second for a video. The available options are 10, 20, 30.
• Days of Screen Recordings - Allows you to configure the number of days the screen recordings are hosted on the platform. The available options are: 3, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 180.

Desktop Native Commands

• Desktop Native Commands Enabled - When enabled, this feature provides the ability to setup .Net and URL push. 

 Once enabled, you can add, delete, move up, and move down the data entry by using Add, Delete, Move Up, and Move Down buttons. You can also update the data entry by double-clicking on the data entry row. For detailed information, see the Agent Desktop - Desktop Native Tab section of the Administrative User Guide. 

The Extended Panel tab allows users to configure the extended panel widgets of the selected Agent Desktop.

• • Support Expression - Allows you to create or link dynamic fields within the URL using the Expression Builder window.
  • Layout - Allows you to select a display style of the Unified Agent Desktop (UAD) widgets on the agent desktop.
    • Tiles - Displays UAD widgets in tiles format on the agent desktop.
    • Tabs - Displays UAD widgets in tabs format on the agent desktop.
  • Stateless Panel - Allows configuring the widgets such a way that they appear on the extended panel independent of the Agent state.

 The available widgets are:  

• Custom Panel - Custom Panel widget is used to invoke external URLs with the agent desktop.
• API V2 - Allows users to configure API responses and display them on the agent desktop.
• Contact Notes - Allows an agent to determine what action or notes have been written by previous agents who worked the account.
• Contact History - Displays all contact history on agent desktop for the account.
• Title Bar - Title Bar widget gives an agent the ability to upload their own avatar and view the Client’s Logo.
• Time Distribution - Time Distribution widget gives an agent a visual view of their productivity for the day.
  

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  The productive time of an agent is calculated by adding together the agent's Talk Time, Wrapup Time, and Ready Time. If an agent is in any state apart from Ready, On Call, or Wrapup, those states are considered as Not Ready.

• Term Code Distribution - Time Code Distribution gives an agent a visual view of the current work day’s call results.
• Agent Productivity - Allows an agent to view the information in graphical and tabular form. This information represents the productivity of agents on Call, Ready, or Not Ready event. 
• Contact Details - Allows you to configure contact information, Email, and SMS mode for agent desktop which enables the agents to get details of a contact, add/edit contact information, and send Emails and SMS. When sending emails agents are able to send up to 5 attachments per email with a max of 2MB per attachment. Agents are able to preview PDF attachments with a built-in preview feature.  
• Contact List -  Allows agents to search and open contact details, dial, send SMS (for cell phone numbers only) or email (if configured) from the desktop.

• • Credit Card Basic - Allows you to configure message prompts (Credit Card Text, Expiry Text, and Security Text) and credit card types. This widget gives an agent ability to initiate the Credit Card data collection after reading the configured message prompt to the individual customer.
  • Check Basic - Allows to configure message prompts (Check Routing Text and Check Account Text). This widget gives an agent ability to initiate the Check data collection after reading the configured message prompt to the individual customer.
  • Credit Card Advanced - Allows you to set Message, Payment Gateway, and Advanced configuration. This widget gives an agent ability to initiate the Credit Card data collection after reading the configured message prompt to the individual customer and specify the customer demographic as well as payment arrangements.
  • Check Advanced - Allows to set Message, Payment Gateway, and Advanced configuration. This widget gives an agent ability to initiate the Check data collection after reading the configured message prompt to the individual customer and specify the customer demographic as well as payment arrangements.
  • Highlight Widget - Allows you to configure account fields that will be displayed at the top of the extended panel of agent desktop when the agent is in Incall, Ready, and Not Ready states. You can configure up to six different account fields for each agent state (Incall, Ready, and Not Ready).

To add a new widget, select the widget, and click Add. The Add screen appears. Specify all the details, and click OK to add the widget.

The Active Widgets screen displays all the added widgets.

• • ID - Displays the ID of the widget.
  • Widget Name - Displays the name of the widget.
  • Title - Displays the title of the widget.
  • Enabled - Displays the status of the added widget (enabled or not). If the widget is enabled, it will be displayed on the agent desktop.

To delete the added widget, select the widget and click Delete .

To edit the widget details, double click the widget. The Edit-Widget screen appears. You can edit the following details:

• • Window Title
  • Enabled checkbox
  • Config details

Click OK to save the changes.

To learn more about Active Widgets from the User Guide, see Agent Desktop.