Neil Parkhurst
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Resizable Communication Panel
Within the customer service workspace app of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Omnichannel for Customer Service we have a communication panel. When agents are chatting with customers the conversation displays in this panel. Did you know we can resize that panel? In this post I will explain how.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Enhanced Outbound Dialer (April 2024)
The April 2024 wave for Dynamics 365 has included some additional features in the outbound dialer of Omnichannel for Customer Service. In this post I will explain how to enable searching for contacts directly from the dialer.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Consult, filter by skills
A recent enhancement to Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service has enabled the ability to filter agents by skills when starting a consult. In this post I will explain this feature.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Test Speaker / Microphone
Agents using Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer for voice calls can now test their speaker / microphone. I explain how in this post.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Call Quality Surveys
We have a new feature in Omnichannel for Customer Service, the ability to collect feedback from agents on call quality. In this post I will explain this new feature.
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Store AI Created Case Summary Data
I have recently been working on a requirement to store case summary data. In this post I will explain how I created an approach to store a “snapshot” of an AI generated summary as cases are resolved.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Conditional Agent Scripts
When using Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service we can use agent scripts to offer prompts to agents or trigger productivity macros. In this post I will explain how (and why) we might want to automatically start different scripts in different scenarios.
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D365PPUG Birmingham – April 2024 Event
We have another amazing free Dynamics 365 / Power Platform event planned for April! Our next in-person meeting will take place on Thursday 11th April from 18:00 at the Wesleyan Building in Birmingham. You can register on meetup.com here. Regular attendees will already know that parking is available close by at the B4 Car Park or it’s a short walk from any city…
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Dynamics 365 – Knowledge Base Filtering
I was recently asked how we can control the filters available to agents when using the knowledge articles. I needed to research this feature; in this post I explain the filtering options. We can search the knowledge base from several points in Dynamics 365. You might, for example, be using the customer service hub and…
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Phone Number Formats
When using Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service you may need to ensure phone numbers held on your accounts and contacts are in a specific format. In this post I will explain why and how I validate my numbers.
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – Change Agent Presence
Within Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service agents can manually change their presence / status to be available, do not disturb etc. Supervisors can also change this status for individuals from the real-time conversations dashboard. But what-if you wanted to quickly change the status of multiple agents. In this post I will explore the challenge of…
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Omnichannel for Customer Service – v2.0 Chat Widget Customizations
I recently explained how we can customize the appearance of chat widgets within Microsoft’s Omnichannel for Customer Service using data tags. In this post I will expand on that theme by looking how with the v2 chat widget code snippet we have additional customizations options.