by williamconley » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:06 pm
Very good solution. But kind of a bandaid. And not upgrade proof. And requires command line access for each tiny change ...
So a more "Vicidial-ish" solution would be:
Create a campaign for this solution. Then an Ingroup and add the ingroup to the campaign. Set the "Next Agent Call" field to "ring all". Then a user for each phone. Then create a remote agent for each phone (which will require the use of that user just created ...) which would need only the extension number for the phone. Then you will be able to change each remote agent to active or inactive to add them to the ring_all of the ingroup. You can also allow the agents direct access to the remote agent interface to allow them to log themselves in/out during the day (if they want to shut their phone up ... or are on vacation for a few days it may be good to silence the phone ...).
Beware using the existing user if they are also going to act as logged in agents, since this would require deactivating the remote agent who would otherwise already be logged in as that user. Best to create a new user to avoid the overlap.
Admittedly complex, but once configured will have statistical reports available and be easily modified within the Vicidial interface. You'll even get a RealTime screen to watch for that new campaign to see who has been answering the phone all day (and who hasn't!) and who is on the phone right now.
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