Session History in USD

Sessions history – Capture Active & Total time of Session in USD

One of the most common business scenario while implementing USD in contact centers is to know the Total time the agent spent in a session and the time actively he/she worked on the session. This can be very good information for all those managers out there to understand the pattern of calls, time taking to …

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Create Custom Hosted Control – Part 3 (Firing USD Events from C#)

In the Part 1 & Part 2 of this series we have seen how do we install USD Project templates in visual studio and how to implement custom logic for the Actions when a Action call is fired by the Administrator. I would recommend you to go through them once as they also cover the Scenario …

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Custom Hosted Control in USD

Create Custom USD Control – Part 2 (Replacement parameters in C#)

This is the continuation to my previous post where I have explained how we will install the Visual studio templates for USD, Configuring the control and do a quick test on how the control looks in USD. In this post, I will try to explain how we can get and set the data from Replacement parameters and …

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Create Custom hosted control in Unified Service Desk

Create a custom USD Hosted Control – Part 1

Hello Friends, This is mainly aimed for the beginners of USD "Developers" ( I mean the Coders 🙂 ). In this post I will try to show you all the detailed steps involved (starting from installation of project templates till deployment) and would like to take it up with a scenario. Scenario/Use Case : Agent should …

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Customer Validation in USD

Customer Validation in USD using Notification forms

So far I have worked on 3 USD implementations and multiple CCA projects as well. One of the most common requirement for almost all these projects is "Validate/Verify customer". During an Incoming/out going call the first thing majority of the call centers do is "checking" whether he/she is the right customer. In all the projects …

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Transfer USD Configurations using ConfigurationMigration tool

One of the key problems/concerns we see after completing development of a USD implementation project is, how do we transfer the configuration data with out any hiccups to the next environment? This risk is a bit high if we are transferring configurations from Test to Live instance where it may not even possible to do …

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Copy-Paste attachments in to CRM via USD

Copy-paste to upload attachments automatically into CRM via USD

Have you ever wondered how many clicks you have to do to take a screenshot and upload as an attachment in CRM Notes? It would definitely be a minimum of 8 to 10 clicks to complete the full process. What if, if there is a way to do it with almost 0 clicks? Yes, In …

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Shortcut Keys for Action calls

Before coming in to the subjected topic first let me talk about some scenarios (some close to real world scenarios) Occasionally My agents have to Search for a post code and find the location, What would you suggest ? Based on customer voice, my agents have to send an Escalation mail  to take up the …

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Using Notifications in USD 2.2

I would say, This post is an extension to Neil’s USD – Notifications post (link). I want to use it with one another kind-of real world scenario. Let’s say being a Call center Manager, you want to display an important message – “XYZ application processing has been stopped for today, Please make sure you are …

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