Enabling the Voice and Video Agent Function in the CEC

Procedure

1. Sign in to the CEC as a tenant administrator.
2. Add a voice and video skill queue.
   1. Choose Configuration Center > Employee Center > Skill Queue. The skill queue management page is displayed, as shown in Figure 1.
      

      A maximum of 1000 skill queues can be created by default.

   2. Click New and set parameters. For details about the parameters, see Table 1.
      Figure 1 Page for configuring a skill queue
      

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring a skill queue

   Parameter	Mandatory or Not	Description
   Skill Queue Name	Yes	The value can contain a maximum of 20 characters and cannot contain spaces.
   Max. Waiting Time (s)	Yes	The default value is 60. The unit is second. The value ranges from 1 to 60000.
   Max. Calls in Queue	Yes	The default value is 100. The value ranges from 1 to 10000.
   Description	Yes	The value can contain a maximum of 50 characters.
   Type	Yes	The options are as follows: Voice: A voice skill queue handles voice businesses. Multimedia: A multimedia skill queue handles multimedia businesses. Video: A video skill queue handles video businesses. Voice Click to Dial: A voice click-to-dial skill queue is used together with multimedia businesses. During a text chat with an agent, a customer can directly make a voice call to the agent. Video Click to Dial: A video click-to-dial skill queue is used together with multimedia businesses. During a text chat with an agent, a customer can directly make a video call to the agent. NOTE: Click-to-dial skill queues apply only to the web channel. The default value is Voice.
   Duration (s) in Arranging State	Yes	Duration during which an agent is in wrap-up state after a call ends. The default value is 5. After this duration, the agent enters the idle state and can answer calls from customers. The value ranges from 0 to 3600.
   Skill Parameter Configuration	No	Personalized configurations, which are the processing policies when a customer calls a skill queue and the call cannot be connected. The options are as follows: Skill Timeout Process Method: Processing policy when queuing times out because no idle agent can answer the call. Release (default) Transfer Device Type: If Process Method is set to Transfer, you need to configure the skill queue or IVR flow to which the call is transferred. Skill Queue IVR Skill Busy Process Method: Processing policy when the customer is queuing because no idle agent can answer the call, or the number of queuing customers exceeds the upper limit. Release (default) Transfer Device Type: If Process Method is set to Transfer, you need to configure the skill queue or IVR flow to which the call is transferred. Skill Queue IVR Skill NoAgents Process Method: Processing policy when no agent can answer the call because no agent is on duty. Release (default) Transfer Device Type: If Process Method is set to Transfer, you need to configure the skill queue or IVR flow to which the call is transferred. Skill Queue IVR Queuing and waiting configuration: When a customer needs to wait in a queue after making an inbound call, a voice can be played to optimize the customer waiting process. Queuing Method Default Wait Tone Customizing the Wait Tone IVR Keeping and waiting configuration: When a call needs to be held and the customer needs to wait, a voice can be played to optimize the customer waiting process. Keeping Method Default Keeping Tone Customizing the Keeping Tone Skill AnswerMode: After an agent answers a call from a customer, the employee ID of the agent can be played to the customer. Answer Type Report employee ID Report no voice NOTE: Calls in voice, video, and click-to-dial skill queues can be transferred to IVRs or skill queues. Calls in multimedia skill queues can be transferred only to skill queues. The skill queue selected for call transfer must be of the same type as the skill queue to be created. The waiting tones can be set only for voice and video skill queues and are not displayed for multimedia and click-to-dial skill queues.

   3. Click Complete.

3. Add a called route of the voice or video type.
   1. Choose Configuration Center > Access Configuration > Called Route.
   2. Click New to add parameter information for the VDN and click Complete, as shown in Figure 2. Table 2 describes the parameters.
      Figure 2 Page for configuring a called route
      

      Table 2 Parameters for configuring a called route

      Parameter	Mandatory or Not	Description
      Access Code	Yes	Customer service hotline. Customers can dial the access code to connect to agents. Click to select an access code, for example, a multimedia access code, from the list in the dialog box that is displayed.
      Extension Code	No	To set one access code for multiple destination devices, you can configure extension codes. For example, if the access code is 12345, you can add extension code 1 to route calls to skill queue A and extension code 2 to route calls to skill queue B. In this way, a customer can dial 123451 to directly access skill queue A.
      Device Type	Yes	Select Skill Queue to configure a called route of the skill queue type.
      Skill Queue	Yes	Associate the skill queue created in 2. Skill Queue: Click to select a skill queue from the list in the dialog box that is displayed. The type of the skill queue is the same as that of the access code. For example, if you select a multimedia access code, all available skill queues are of the multimedia type.

4. Configure a business account and skill queue.
   1. Choose Configuration Center > Employee Center > Agent Management.
   2. Select an agent ID and click Configure in the Operation column. The page for configuring agent information is displayed, as shown in Figure 3. Table 3 describes the parameters.
   3. Associate the business account and skill queue with the agent.
      Figure 3 Page for configuring agent information
      

      Table 3 Parameters for configuring agent information

      Parameter	Mandatory or Not	Description
      Platform Role	Yes	Agent role. This parameter is mandatory. Common agent: This role can answer or transfer inbound calls from customers. Quality checker: This role can intervene in calls between common agents and customers. For example, this role can perform operations, such as insertion, interception, and forcible busy state setting, to coach and supervise agents' handling of inbound calls. Callout agent: This role can answer, transfer, or reject inbound calls from customers.
      Agent Type	Yes	Type of businesses that can be processed by an agent. This parameter is mandatory. Voice agent Video agent Multimedia agent Versatile agent
      Agent Mobile/Fixed-Line Number	No	Mobile number or fixed-line phone number used by an agent.
      Account	Yes	Employee account. For details about how to configure an employee, see User Guide > Tenant Administrator Guide > Managing Employees.
      Intelligent Recognition	No	Whether an agent is an intelligent agent. By default, this switch is turned off. In addition to basic voice control functions, intelligent agents support real-time ASR and related intelligent recommendation functions. Before turning on this switch, ensure that the number of agents for which intelligent recognition is enabled does not exceed the number of intelligent agents allocated when the tenant is created.
      SinglePhone Agent Recognition	No	After this switch is turned on, an agent can dial a specified access code to access an IVR flow, press a key as prompted to enter the employee ID and password to sign in, and answer calls on a mobile phone. When this switch is turned on, the system O&M personnel need to customize the single-phone agent process for the tenant based on the platform, and the tenant needs to provide number resources for accessing the single-phone agent process.
      Agent Number Anonymization Flag	No	Flag for a third party to mark whether an agent has the anonymization feature. This is not a feature switch. The anonymization feature enables agents to customize the calling number displayed on the user side (the calling number displayed to the user) and the calling number displayed on the agent side (the calling number displayed to the customer manager).
      Select Skill Queue	Yes	Agent skill queue. If multiple skill queues need to be added, ensure that the media types of all the skill queues are the same, except for versatile agents. For example, the media types of all the skill queues are voice and video, or multimedia. NOTE: If Agent Type is set to Video agent, set the number of video agents allowed when applying for tenant resources. If Agent Type is set to Multimedia agent, set the number of multimedia agents allowed when applying for tenant resources. If Agent Type is set to Versatile agent, set the number of versatile agents allowed when applying for tenant resources. To add more business accounts, choose Configuration Center > Employee Center > Employee.

   4. Click Submit. The business account and skill queue are associated with the agent ID.
   5. (Optional) Click Batch Configure. On the Batch Agent Info Configuration page, configure agent information in batches, as shown in Figure 4.
      Figure 4 Batch configuration
      
      • Batch Select: Select agents to be configured by employee ID or employee ID segment.
      • Agent Info Configuration: Set parameters by referring to 4-2.