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Skills

A skill is a queue with people in it

Queues, the awkward tab name, pools, levels, Default, and the scoreboard.

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A skill group holds users who have the agent or supervisor role. Campaigns point at one or more groups. The people, not the name, determine who can receive the contact.

Service level, voicemail, greetings, and a message to the group are all on the skill topic. A skill with no members is a label.

Build BillingCreateThe group exists.AdminAddAgents are members.AdminLevelA service level is set.AdminAudioA greeting is recorded.AdminReadyA member is available.AgentEmptyA group with no membersnever answers.Admin

From the skill group topic.

Worked example

Roster

Write a skill and three members.

  1. Name the skill
  2. Name who is excluded
  3. Name the service level as a target, not a priority

The roster is not the campaign.

Who can be in a skill group?
A skill with no members
Service level lives
One user, several skills?
Voicemail on a skill is

Sources and go deeper

Ecosystem

Glossary. DNIS: The number an inbound campaign answers. A stopped campaign does not answer. Inbound campaigns

Sister technologies. RedSky. Emergency-location partner on the E911 data sheet. Not the ITSP. E911 data sheet

Config. Write a skill and three members.

Troubleshooting. Billing has zero users. Add the agents.

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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