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Inbound design review

DNIS, run state, scripts, overflow, schedules, and the pause between calls.

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A review you can finish in one sitting: DNIS, running campaign, script, skill on the Outbound Skills tab, overflow module, schedule, and pause. Each one has a public page. None of them is a trunk setting.

If all seven are right and the caller still hears silence or reorder, then you have a carrier or SBC symptom. The topology bench is the next tool, not another copy of the greeting.

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Seven checks before the carrier.

Worked example

Run the seven

Use a real or sample campaign and tick the seven.

  1. DNIS
  2. State
  3. Script
  4. Skill tab
  5. Overflow
  6. Schedule
  7. Pause

Each tick names a screen.

How many of these checks are trunk settings?
Wrong tab for inbound skills means
Night busy with a perfect daytime script usually means
Overflow should be
After the seven checks pass, open

Sources and go deeper

Ecosystem

Glossary. Call log: A report with filters. A July 2026 community article describes about 60 days unless retention is extended. Call log filters

Sister technologies. Verint. Named on the WEM page as a partnership. Not a synonym for native WEM. Workforce engagement management

Config. Use a real or sample campaign and tick the seven.

Troubleshooting. The DID is busy and nobody looked at campaign state. Start the campaign, then retest.

Cross-platform bridge. A mapping to another PBX or contact center is a teaching bridge. It is not an import button.

Future hook. The guide's cloud endpoint stays unset. Confirm before relying on a dated catalog or a case-study number.

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