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Skills

The tab is named backwards on inbound

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

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Outbound campaigns take skills on the Skills tab. Inbound and autodial take them on a tab named Outbound Skills. The skill topic says this in one paragraph. People miss it because the word outbound sits on an inbound campaign.

If the right people are Ready and the queue is still empty, look at the tab before you look at the carrier.

Attach the same group twiceGroupSupport exists and hasmembers.AdminOutThe outbound campaignuses Skills.CampaignInThe inbound campaignuses Outbound Skills.CampaignWrongUsing Skills on inboundleaves the queue empty.CampaignReadyReady does not fix thewrong tab.AgentRetestA test call hits amember.Admin

Read the words on the screen.

Worked example

Two campaigns

Write the tab name under each.

  1. Inbound
  2. Outbound
  3. Autodial

Inbound and autodial match.

Inbound skills tab is named
Ready agents on the wrong tab
Autodial uses
The fix is
This is documented in

Sources and go deeper

Ecosystem

Glossary. Disposition: The outcome code on a call. Final disposition stops the other numbers on that record for the campaign. List dialing modes

Sister technologies. Five9 ITSP. One of three SIP stories. The others are your ITSP to Five9 SBCs, or a gateway. Technical requirements PDF

Config. Write the tab name under each.

Troubleshooting. The skill is on the Skills tab. Use Outbound Skills.

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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