Creating Fixed Outbound Call Tasks

Prerequisites

• The platform role of a user account is agent.
• You have contacted the system administrator to enable the system parameter Display Fixed Proportion of Outgoing Calls under System Parameter > Intelligent Outbound Call > Managing Configurations.
• To create an outbound call task, you have completed the operations in Preparations for Creating Outbound Call Tasks.
• At least one voice skill queue exists. For details about the configuration method, see Maintaining a Tenant Space Skill Queue. The skill queue has been associated with the agent who needs to make an outbound call. For details about the association method, see Associating an Allocated Agent ID with a Business Account and Skill Queue.
• If the tenant space is in trial commercial use, you have contacted O&M personnel to add the numbers used for making outbound calls to the tenant space trustlist.
• To send SMS notifications for failed outbound calls, you have configured an SMS template on the Configuration Center > Workbench Configuration > Notification Template page. For details about how to configure an SMS notification template, see Configuring Notification Templates as an Administrator.
• To configure a callback URL, an application has been submitted to the system administrator and approved to add the callback URL to the address trustlist.

Procedure

1. Sign in to the AICC as a tenant administrator and choose Outbound Call > Call Mgmt.
2. Click Create and choose System Automatic Outbound Call.
   Figure 1 Page for creating a fixed outbound call task
   

3. Configure basic information.
   • Task Name: Enter a customized task name.
   • Caller Number: Select an existing calling number of the current tenant space. A maximum of 100 calling numbers can be added.
   • Task Type: Select Fixed Outbound Call.
   • Task Template: Select a fixed outbound call template whose Status is Published on the Configuration Center > Call Config > Call Template page.
   • Task Start And End Time: Select the task start time and end time.
   • Skill Queue: Select an existing skill queue. For details about how to configure a skill queue, see Maintaining a Tenant Space Skill Queue.
   • Smart Robot: Select an intelligent robot. During the execution of a fixed outbound call task, the value of Call Result is Successful for a call only when the call is routed from an intelligent robot to an agent, and a contact record is generated for the call with the agent.
   • Questionnaire: An IVR survey needs to be used together with the questionnaire diagram element in an IVR flow. A manual and IVR survey can be used on the outbound call workbench or used together with the questionnaire diagram element in an IVR flow.
   • Play questionnaire process: Select a survey flow. This parameter is displayed when the selected survey is a manual and IVR survey.
   • SMS Template for Failed Outbound Call: Select a configured SMS notification template. For details about how to configure an SMS notification template, see Configuring Notification Templates as an Administrator.
   • Priority: Select a value from 1 to 5. A smaller value indicates a higher priority. If tasks are started at the same time, the task with a higher priority is called preferentially.
   • Callback Address: Enter the URL for callback upon call connection or release on the customer side.
   • Associate Business Result: After an outbound call task is associated with a business result, only the associated business result and its sub-business results can be selected for outbound calls in the task. If Appointment Pop-up Screen is enabled for the business result, after the business result is selected for an outbound call, the dialog box for creating a reserved outbound call task is displayed.

4. Configure the outbound call period.
   Figure 2 Outbound Call Duration
   
   1. In Regular Date Time Period(UTC+08:00), set the start time and end time of the working period. Examples are as follows:

      9:00–11:30

      14:00–18:00

   2. In Special Date, click add special date to add days such as holidays and weekends as special dates.
   3. In Special Time Period(UTC+08:00), click add time period and set Start Time and End Time to 00:00 and 23:59, respectively.
      

      If calls do not need to be made on some special dates, for example, weekends, you can set Regular Date Time Period(UTC+08:00) to 00:00–23:59, set weekends as special dates, and set Special Time Period(UTC+08:00) to 00:00–00:00, as shown in the following figure.

      

5. Configure the task policy. Set Fixed Outbound Call to a value ranging from 1 to 20 and set Max. Response Duration.
   Figure 3 Task Strategy
   

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring the policy of a fixed outbound call task

   Parameter	Value Range	Description
   Fixed Outbound Call	The value ranges from 1 to 20. The default value is 10.	Fixed outbound call ratio = Number of outbound calls/Number of idle agents The number of outbound calls indicates the number of calls obtained from the business side during execution of a fixed outbound call task. Number of outbound calls = Number of idle agents x Fixed outbound call ratio The maximum number of outbound calls is 900.
   Max. Response Duration	The value ranges from 5 to 120. The default value is 20.	If the response duration exceeds this value, the current call ends and the next call is to be made. The value ranges from 5 to 120. The default value is 20.

6. Configure the call policy.
   1. In the Call Strategy area, customize the call policy for customer numbers to be called. Set parameters based on Table 2.
      Figure 4 Call Strategy
      

      Table 2 Parameters in the Call Strategy area

      Parameter	Description
      Multi-number customer call rounds: Mode for calling multiple numbers of a customer.
      In sequence	Call multiple numbers of a customer in sequence.
      By number type	You can select Existing number type or New number type. After the configuration, the number with the specified type placed ahead is called first.
      By sequence number	You can enter the sequence numbers of numbers. After the configuration, the number with a smaller sequence number is called first.

   2. Configure Outbound Call Result Policy, which indicates the processing method when an outbound call is not connected due to an unallocated number, busy line, or other exceptions. Select Global policy or Contact Policy.
      • Global policy
        • Disable Configure Policy Based On Results.

          Set Max. Call Attempt Days, Maximum number of call attempts per day, and Call-Out Interval (s).

          Click and set Add non-retry result code. When the result of an outbound call to a customer matches a result code configured in Add non-retry result code, the system stops retrying calling all other numbers of the customer.

          Figure 5 Disabling Configure Policy Based On Results
          
        • Enable Configure Policy Based On Results.

          In Results processing strategy, click and set Outbound Call Failure Cause, Retry Times and Call-Out Interval (s). Click for multiple times to add multiple policies one by one. Policies with the same values of Outbound Call Failure Cause cannot be added.

          Click and set Add non-retry result code. When the result of an outbound call to a customer matches a result code configured in Add non-retry result code, the system stops retrying calling all other numbers of the customer.

          Figure 6 Enabling Configure Policy Based On Results
          
        

        If the outbound call interval is set to a large value, outbound call operations indicators, such as the call connection rate, may be affected. You are advised to use the default value.

      • Contact Policy
        • Default number type: Set Whether to configure based on the result to configure the policy.

          If it is set to No, you can set Max. Call Attempt Days and Maximum number of call attempts per day.

          Figure 7 Setting Whether to configure based on the result to No
          

          If it is set to Yes, you can set Outbound Call Failure Cause, Retry Times, and Call-Out Interval (s). Click for multiple times to add multiple policies one by one. Policies with the same values of Outbound Call Failure Cause cannot be added.

          Figure 8 Setting Whether to configure based on the result to Yes
          
        • Added number type: Click to access the Configure Policy Based On Results dialog box. You must set Number Type first regardless of whether Configure Policy Based On Results is enabled, and then set other parameters.

          If Configure Policy Based On Results is disabled, set Number Type to New number type and set Max. Call Attempt Days and Maximum number of call attempts per day.

          Figure 9 Disabling Configure Policy Based On Results
          

          If Configure Policy Based On Results is enabled, set Number Type to New number type, click , and set Outbound Call Failure Cause, Maximum number of call attempts, and Call-Out Interval (s). Click for multiple times to add multiple policies one by one. Policies with the same values of Outbound Call Failure Cause cannot be added.

          Figure 10 Enabling Configure Policy Based On Results
          

7. (Optional) Click Save as Template. In the dialog box that is displayed, enter a template name and click confirm to save the current configuration as an outbound call template.
8. Click Save.
9. Return to the Call Mgmt page, click Contact list in the Operation column corresponding to the new outbound call task, and add outbound call data to the outbound call task. For details, see Configuring Outbound Call Data.
10. Return to the Call Mgmt page and click corresponding to the new outbound call task.