Basics about queues and waiting lists in Pulse

In CallGuide Pulse Overview of queues and waiting lists window provides information about queues and waiting lists belonging to the organisation area or subarea you have selected as view in the main window. If you selected View my organisation areas you cannot use the Queues and waiting lists menu choice

Start by selecting View | Queues and waiting lists click on the button.

In the tree structure in the left part of the Overview of queues and waiting lists window, you see icons for

MediaTelephony, email, or chat

Direction Incoming or outgoing

Distribution Queue or waiting list

	Incoming calls, queue
	Incoming calls, waiting list
	Callback, queue
	Callback, waiting list
	Incoming email, queue
	Incoming email, waiting list
	Incoming chat, queue
	Incoming chat, waiting list

Under each icon you see the queues’ and waiting lists’ names.

See queues in sub level by clicking on . Hide sub level by clicking on

Double-click on the wanted queue name to get the corresponding bars displayed in the right part of the window. You then see the selected name marked with a P.

To the right you see about how many contacts there are in a queue/waiting list and how many agents that are available for serving the queue/waiting list. To remove the information bars, double-click once more on the queue name in the left part, and the P marking is removed

Information presented in the bar chart.

Purple bars show how many agents that are available for serving the queue/waiting list Includes all agents, whose profiles are such that they shall service the current queue/waiting list. Also those that are currently busy servicing some customer in this queue/waiting list or another queue/waiting list. Paused agents and agents that are not logged in are consequently not included.

Bars showing contacts in queue are green , yellow or red depending on service level fulfilment. Contacts in queue only includes the customers that are in fact still waiting in the queue/waiting list, not customers being served, if any...

To the right of each bar, information about the number of contacts or agents this bar represents, is displayed in digits.

Personal queues and waiting lists are not included here. Neither are queues and waiting lists pertaining to campaigns. Campaign data are presented under the Campaign progress menu choice

Open Help, Agents and Queue details windows

By the No. of visible: shown at the bottom left you choose how many queues’/waiting lists’ bars that should be visible simultaneously in the right part of the window. If you have selected more queues/lists than the number you have indicated as No. of visible, you will have to move/scroll to view some of the bars in the right part of the Overview of queues and waiting lists window.

Move focus/scroll the picture like this:

• Place the mouse pointer in the middle of the part of the window containing bars.
• Press and hold the right mouse button and simultaneously move the mouse cursor up/down.

opens a Help window, where the procedure above is described

opens the Agentswindow where you see more about the number of agents that can service a selected queue/waiting list

opens a window with detailed information about a selected queue/waiting list. The same detail window is opened if you hold the Ctrl key at the same time as you click on the queue bar in question. The queue detail window can also be opened from The Inspector.