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- Common Functions Tab ---
- Toggle View | Alerts | Admin Chat | Logout
- The Activity Window
- Agents View ---
- Queue View ---
The Live Dashboard is the default menu displayed when you log into the ACD Panel. From other screens you can access it by selecting Live Dashboard from the ACD Panel menu.
The Live Dashboard acts as your command center. Here you can see a complete overview and perform actions on calls, agents, and queues.
The Live Dashboard screen has two separate areas with three different set of functions:
1 - The common functions tab
2 - the activity window
3 - the menu selection button. The button is not unique to the Live Dashboard. We will not discuss it here, but you can get more information about it in the Getting Started and an overview of the ACD panel.
The Common Functions Tab has four buttons and only two view modes (compared to five buttons and three view modes of the desktop version).
Toggle View
Switches the view between two available modes. One giving access to calls, queues, or agents the other focusing on queues. (these are discussed in more details in the Activity Window section below).
You can set alerts using the Alerts Manager.
In either window you can click Dismiss all or you can select one or more alerts and click Dismiss selected. This removes the alerts that you have already addressed from the alerts window.
Admin Chat
Tap this button to opens a panel where you can see a list of conversations and start a chat with your agents. Tap any conversation to resume chatting with the relevant agent.
Tap 
to close the panel.
To search for a conversation with a specific agent, tap 
and type his name.
To start a new conversation, click 
. A new window will open where you can select an agent to chat with from a drop-down menu.
Logout
Literally what it says. It will log you out of the ACD Panel.
The Activity Window
This is your main work area for the Dashboard and the ACD Panel. It provides information about calls traffic, agents' activity, and queues load. Here you can also perform operations such as assigning calls to specific agents or logging agents in and out of the system.
In the bottom right corner of the window you can see the filter button (
) that gives you control over the amount of information displayed in the window.
You can apply more than one filter. For example, with the Queues and Agents by Status filters, you can display only those agents who are available to take calls in a specific queue. Tap Update to apply one or more filters. Tap Clear to remove all applied filters.
When you apply any filter the filter button will be marked with a red dot to remind you that the information you see in the activity window is filtered out.
The Activity Window has two view modes, selected by tapping the Toggle View icon, as discussed above. The Calls mode of the desktop version is not available, but the Agents View has a tab with similar functionality.
Agents View
This is the default view with three different tabs for agents, calls, and queues. In the agents tab you can log agents in and out of queues.
Queues Tab
You also see the number of agents assigned to a queue and how many are actually actively available to take calls. For example the Accounting queue has two agents assigned to it but only one is logged in and available to take calls.
Tap 
on the top-right corner to display queues sorting options:
- A to Z - sorts the queues alphabetically.
- Most holding calls - sorts the queues by the ones with the most unanswered calls.
- Most agents available - sorts the queues by the ones that have the most agents that have not yet answered any calls.
- Priority - sorts the queues by the queues priority rankings.
Tap 
to search for queues by name. Non matching results will be hidden. To display all the queues again tap X.
Filters
There are two filters that are relevant to the Queues Tab.
Filter Queues - check the queues you want displayed. This allows you to focus on the more active queues or ones that need specific attention.
Filter Queues By Status - choose to display queues that have No Call(s) in them (either active or holding), or queues that have No Agent(s) logged in them (that is not even one agent is logged in them). During heavy call volume, this allows you to redirect calls to queues with no activity, or find queues that don't receive calls because their agents are logged out.
The calls themselves offer a visual indication of a green phone icon for live calls and a red one for holding calls. As mentioned before, the names of the agents are color coded based on queues.
Agents Tab
Tap on the top-right corner to display agents sorting options
- A to Z - sorts the agents alphabetically.
- Waiting for calls First - sorts the agents by the ones who are waiting to answer calls first, that is available agents will be shown at the top of the list, while the ones who are busy with calls will be placed lower.
- Sort by Queue - sorts the agents by the ones belong to more queues. For example an agent belonging to three queues will be placed at the top of the list, while an agent belonging to only one queue will be lower.
- None - sorts the agents into groups of number of queues they are assigned to. For example at the top of the list will be all the agents belonging to four queues, next to three queues, etc. The agents are sorted alphabetically within these groups.
Tap to search for agents by name. Non matching results will be hidden. To display all the agents again tap X.
If you have a mouse or a touch pad connected to your mobile device and a support for pointing devices you can also hover over a disc to see a bubble with its name.
Tap a full disc to log agent out of the queue it represents. A dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the operation or cancel it. Tap an empty disc to log agent into the queue it represents
Availability Status
The agent's availability status is specified just above the queues discs. Red or grey color indicate the agent is not free to take calls(but you may still redirect calls to him or to his voicemail). Green indicate he is free.
 | The agent is logged in and is available to take calls directly to his line or from a queue. |
 | This status appears when the agent has logged out of all the queues he belongs to. He will not get any queue calls distributed by the system, but you can still route calls to him directly. |
 | The agent is handling a live call. |
 | The agent is handling more than one call. Calls routed to him will be placed on hold if he has a call-waiting option active on his account. |
 | The agent's phone is ringing. He is yet to answer. |
 | This is a notice activated by the agent from his TeleConsole account, suggesting he is occupied with another activity. All calls will go to his voicemail. |
 | The agent is signed out of the TeleConsole. |
Filters
There are two filters that are relevant to the Agents Tab.
Filter Agents - check the agents that you want to be displayed in the agent's list.
Note this only affects the list of agents and nothing else. So calls with agents who were filtered out will still be displayed in the calls area regardless.
Filter Agents by Status - select one of the options here to filter specific agents based on their availability status.
- Available for calls - the agents' list will only show agents who are not talking to customers or having their phone ring by customers. This is very useful when you need to distribute calls manually.
- On call - the agents list will only show agents who are currently talking to customers. This is handy when you need to join a conversation.
- Logged out from all queues - self-explanatory. This can help you deal with large call volume by logging agents back to queues with holding calls.
- Offline - will show the agents who are completely offline (an agent can be logged on to a queue but logged out of the TeleConsole.)
- Do Not Disturb - the agents list will only show agents who have activated the Do Disturb option in their TeleConsole account.
Calls Tab
Tap on the top-right corner to display calls sorting options:
- Holding First - will sort the list so that calls on hold will be displayed at the top, while the answered calls will be displayed below.
- Sort in Order they were Received - displays the calls in chronological order.
- Sort by Queue - will group the calls according to queues, sorting the groups alphabetically.
There are two types of calls shown in this tab. Holding calls marked by a red phone number and icon - these are calls that have not been answered yet. Answered Calls - (also referred to as active Calls) are marked by a green phone number - these are calls that have been answered by agents.
Looking closer at at each call we can see several items of information:
- On the left we see the caller's phone number and name.
- On the top right is the time lapsed since the caller made a selection in the main greeting IVR.
- Below it, on the botton-right, is the current status of the call.
If the call is answered, the status is the name of the Active Agent handling it.
If the call is holding, the status can be either the name of the queue or the name of the agent the caller is holding for.
A queue is displayed usually because of a selection of the caller, and an Agent is usually displayed because of a selection of the distribution rules of the ACD. Of course there are exceptions and cases when a call is simply transferred between queues or agents by other agents.
Call Actions works the same in queue view (see below).
Hang Up - self explanatory. You will be asked to confirm you want to hang up the call and once you do the call will be disconnected.
Redirect - this is one of the most important tools of the ACD panel, allowing you to handle overflow and match the right agents with the right customers. When you tap the button, it will open a window with two tabs where you can redirect the call to either queues or agents. Select an agent or a queue in the appropriate tab and tap Redirect Call.
- AGENTS - only agents who have not answered a call yet are displayed. Notice how some agents are completely available - Waiting for Call, while other agents have their phone Ringing, and therefore may not be available.
QUEUES - notice you can see how many calls are Holding and how many are Live calls.
Join Call - allows you to participate in live calls.
You will be prompted to approve the action by clicking JOIN.
For this feature to work there must be a phone line associated with the ACD Panel's account currently logged in. Otherwise you will get a "You do not own any phone line" error when clicking Join Call. This line has to be connected and logged in to the TeleConsole or to any other physical or softphone accessed by the ACD Panel administrator.
When you join the conversation, that line will ring with an incoming call from the agent who is handling the call. When you pick it up you can participate in the call. Essentially, a conference is created by you, the caller, and the agent who received the call. Mute your the call on the TeleConsole (or soft or physical phone) if you just want to listen to the call. When you hang up the call on your line, the agent and the caller can keep talking until one of them hangs up.
It is also possible to join a call using a dial code. You can read more about this here.
Filters
One filter applies to this tab - Filter Calls By Status. It lets you display either only Holding Calls or only Active Calls.
Queues View
In this view you can see holding and active calls for each queue separately. There are no tabs in this view, but It is useful when you need to focus on traffic of particular queues instead of seeing all the calls at once as they appear in the calls tab (see above).
The number of holding calls, live calls, and agents who are assigned to the queue are indicated. With this you can easily estimate the status of the queue and its overflow potential.
Tap the left or right arrow to switch to another queue.
Call Actions
Tap any call to access call actions for it. Call actions here work just the same as in agents view (see above).
Filters
There are two filters that are relevant in this view.
Filter Queues - only the queues that you check here will be available when you switch queues using the arrows. This saves you time by reducing the amount of queues you have to cycle through and allows you to focus on the more active queues or ones that need specific attention