Monitor, assign, transfer, and forcibly end conversations

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Note

The feature availability information is as follows.

Dynamics 365 Contact Center—embedded Dynamics 365 Contact Center—standalone Dynamics 365 Customer Service
No Yes Yes

Important

This feature is intended to help customer service managers or supervisors enhance their team's performance and improve customer satisfaction. This feature is not intended for use in making, and should not be used to make decisions that affect the employment of an employee or group of employees, including compensation, rewards, seniority, or other rights or entitlements. Customers are solely responsible for using Dynamics 365 Customer Service, this feature, and any associated feature or service in compliance with all applicable laws, including laws relating to accessing individual employee analytics and monitoring, recording, and storing communications with end users. This also includes adequately notifying end users that their communications with agents may be monitored, recorded, or stored and, as required by applicable laws, obtaining consent from end users before using the feature with them. Customers are also encouraged to have a mechanism in place to inform their agents that their communications with end users may be monitored, recorded, or stored.

As a supervisor, you can monitor, assign, transfer, or end conversations that your agents are handling by using the Omnichannel Ongoing Conversations dashboard. Learn more in Omnichannel Ongoing Conversations dashboard. However, we recommend that you use the Ongoing conversation report in Omnichannel real-time analytics dashboard to perform these tasks, for digital messaging, chat, and voice channels only.

When you monitor conversations, you can understand how your agents are handling the conversations and also check whether any conversation needs your immediate attention. You can also view customer sentiment and agent responses.

To be able to monitor, assign, transfer, or close conversations, your administrator must enable the respective settings–Supervisor Monitor, Supervisor Assign, Supervisor Transfer, or Force Close–in the admin app. Learn more in Enable your supervisors to monitor, assign, transfer, and forcibly end conversations

Monitor and join conversations

As a supervisor, you can monitor or assign conversations that are configured for all channels, including records. You can monitor all conversations that are in the Active or Wrap-up states. By joining the conversation, you provide necessary details to both the agent and customer in the communication panel.

You can't monitor conversations that are assigned to you.

Assign conversations

To manually assign a conversation, the conversation should be in an Open state and not assigned to any agent. As a supervisor, you can override the agent's presence and allocated capacity when assigning conversations to them. When you override agent capacity, the number of units by which their capacity is exceeded is displayed.

The conversation is now assigned to the agent or queue that you selected.

Note

If you're unable to assign conversations successfully, verify that the Omnichannel API access role isn't assigned to you.

Transfer conversations

You can transfer ongoing conversations that are in the Active or Waiting states. You can transfer all conversations that take place on messaging channels such as Live Chat, SMS, or WhatsApp. However, if and when these conversations switch from the text mode to elevated voice or video modes, you can't transfer them across agents.

You can transfer conversations to and from agents only, not bots.

When you transfer an Active conversation from one agent to another, the first agent is added as a consultant to the conversation that's now being managed by the second agent. The conversation is successfully transferred when the second agent acknowledges the notification by selecting Accept or Reject. Refresh the dashboard if you don't get an updated status as a result of network issues or delays in acknowledgment.

End conversations forcibly

End voice calls and conversations that take place on the voice and messaging channels. After the conversation ends, its status is set to Closed.

We recommend that you use this feature judiciously to end agent conversations.

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