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inbound calls and callbacks

PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:25 pm
by mms1
We experienced a scenario where a record was dispositioned as a CBHOLD. An inbound call came in from that record and it was changed to a SALE.

A few days later at the time of the scheduled callback, the record was placed in the hopper and recalled even though SALE is not a callable disposition.

Is there a script or process in Vicidial that protects against this?

Any help is much appreciated!


VERSION: 2.0.5-134 BUILD: 80703-0124

PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:01 pm
by mflorell
I would think that the callback process should catch that.

Can you please open a ticket in the tracker about this?

In the ticket please include the vicidial_log, vicidial_closer_log and vicidial_callbacks entries for this.

Re: inbound calls and callbacks

PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:48 am
by dspaan
We have also received complaints about this exact same problem. I did not find anything in the issue tracker about it so i made issue 571: http://www.vicidial.org/VICIDIALmantis/view.php?id=571

Re: inbound calls and callbacks

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 11:11 am
by dspaan
I was talking about this problem with the customer again today and realized that in most cases you want a callback to be set to inactive when an inbound call is made on the lead but in a small amount of cases it could also be intentional to leave the scheduled callback as is after an inbound call is completed. Maybe it's an idea to show a screen where the agent can make a choice about what to do with the callback before the agent gets into the disposition screen?

Re: inbound calls and callbacks

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:23 pm
by dspaan
Update: I talked to VICIdial group and they explained there is an existing script in /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_DB_dead_cb_purge.pl
Description:

checks all vicidial_callbacks records for CBHOLD or CALLBK status, if not
# then the script deletes the vicidial_callbacks record
delete callback records of leads with no CBHOLD/CALLBK status

So i'm going to enable this in the crontab and case closed.

Re: inbound calls and callbacks

PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:33 am
by mflorell
As a side note, that script is run in batch mode only, you can set it to once daily, or hourly if you want, but it will not be real-time(as soon as the agent dispositions the call).