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RingCentral Contact Center Central | Fall 2023

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes for RingCentral Contact Center Central. For Contact Center User Hub Release Notes, please refer to this page.

Coming Soon in Spring 2023 - Central

This page shows features currently planned for the Spring 2023 release. Features are subject to change between now and the final release dates. Users will be able to access these features, depending on their permissions and purchased applications, once their business unit has been updated. The online help continues to reflect the previous version of the product being used by most customers.

How to Use This Page

Each feature description includes a table that states whether the following details apply to it. ✓ means that the detail applies to the feature and ✖ means that the detail does not apply to the feature.

Customer Request The feature was developed by customer request.
UI Change The feature introduces major user interface (UI) changes.
Availability

When you can expect to see the feature in your environment.

  • On toggle — This is a major release. The feature automatically toggles on later in the release. If you've registered for Service Notifications, watch for one that indicates when that is.
  • On deploy — The feature is immediately available when the new release deploys to your environment.

Removed Applications and Features

Google Verified Calls Discontinued

Google is ending use of their Verified Calls feature on 31 January 2023. If you're using this feature, contacts will stop seeing the verified calls UI when they receive phone calls from your organization after that date.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

AgentID Property Removed from Agent Assist Studio Action

The AgentId property in the Agent Assist Studio action will be removed from the Properties list. The field will be hidden and the script will automatically populate it with the appropriate variable name. This change will reduce confusion over which variable to use.

 

This update is described in more detail in the Studio section of this page.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

ACD

Tag, Location, and Station Profile Page Improvements

Tag, Location, and Station Profile pages will have a new look and feel, but their basic functionality won't change. The benefits of the updates include:

  • Reduced loading time.
  • Increased security.
  • A more modern page design.
  • Better ability to make significant UI and customer experience improvements.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Bullseye Routing Support in APIs

Some APIs will contain bullseye routing fields. This will enable you to view certain metrics and generate reports for bullseye routing.

 

This update is described in more detail in the API section of this page.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Faster Return to Routing After Failover

Currently, Contact Center reloads all agent data following a failover before routing resumes. With this release, Contact Center will first load a minimal amount of agent data after a failover. This will allow routing to resume quickly and your agents to continue working sooner. Contact Center will continue to reload all remaining agent data while routing occurs.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Admin

Improved Way to Set Agent Availability in WEM Skills

Improvements to marking agent availability will minimize user entry errors. You will set when an agent is available rather than unavailable.

 

User experience will improve as you focus on available time rather than unavailable.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Support for Mapping Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) ACD Events in WEM Skills

With this enhancement, you will be able to map multiple agent states back to multiple activities. This will result in more accurate adherence scores.

 

The mappings will be automatically updated once deployed.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Agent Assist Hub

Google Contact Center AI SmartReply

Support will be added for the Google Contact Center AI (CCAI) SmartReply feature. SmartReply allows CCAI agent assist applications to suggest appropriate and relevant responses to agents in real time throughout the conversation. SmartReply responses will need to be set up and trained based on conversation data from your contact center. Suggestions from SmartReply will appear in the agent assist panel in the agent application. This feature will save agents the time of thinking of an appropriate response, so they can respond more quickly to contacts.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Google Contact Center AI Confidence Scores

Google Contact Center AI will display confidence scores with the suggested articles it shows to agents. This will help agents to better determine how relevant the suggestions are to the current conversation.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Agent Assist Studio Action Updated

The AgentId property in the Agent Assist Studio action will be removed from the Properties list. The field will be hidden and the script will automatically populate it with the appropriate variable name. This change will reduce confusion over which variable to use.

 

These updates are described in more detail in the Studio section of this page.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Agent for Salesforce

See the Agent for Salesforce release history for a list of previous versions. The following features are included in version 23.0 and are planned for release in late March 2023.

Schedule Visibility Improvement for Dual WFM Integrations

If IEX WFM and CXone Workforce Management are enabled and the agent has permissions to both, agents will be able to see their schedules from both applications in Agent for Salesforce Lightning. This will allow agents to see their schedules without navigating away from the agent application.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Manual Selection for Name and Relates To Fields

When this setting is enabled in Agent for Salesforce Lightning, it will require agents to manually select values for the Name and Relates To fields. This will allow the agent to specify the input for these fields instead of limiting it to the automated value.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Restricting Directory History

When this setting is enabled in Agent for Salesforce Lightning, agents will not be able to call or transfer to numbers listed in the directory history. This will reduce the possibility that the agent incorrectly transfers the contact.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Transfer Salesforce Objects with Calls

When a call in Agent for Salesforce Lightning is transferred to another agent, the Name and Relates To field values will be transferred to the receiving agent along with it. This will allow agents to be more efficient in handling transferred calls.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Dutch (Netherlands) Language Support

Dutch (Netherlands) will be supported in Agent for Salesforce Lightning.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Agent for Service Cloud Voice

The following features are planned for release in late March 2023.

Single Sign-On Capability

Single sign-on will be available for Agent for Service Cloud Voice and Salesforce. This will ease the login process for users.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Omni-Flow Support

Real-time transcription will be available. Transcription will be dependent on the use of APIs. If you have questions regarding transcription set up, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Launch Indicators

When you enable launch indicators using Studio scripting, agents will be able to see them.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Omni-Supervisor Additions

Supervisors will be able to use listen-in and barge-in capabilities.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Real-Time Transcription Support

Real-time transcription will be available. Transcription will be dependent on the use of APIs. If you have questions regarding transcription set up, contact your Contact Center Account Representative.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

API

Bullseye Routing Support in APIs

Some APIs will contain bullseye routing fields. This will enable you to view certain metrics and generate reports for bullseye routing. Bullseye routing fields will be added to the following APIs: 

  • Reporting APIs
    • /contacts
    • /contacts/{contactId}
    • /contacts/completed
  • Real-Time Data APIs
    • /contacts/states

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

CXone Attendant

Search for DIDs by POC Name

When assigning DID numbers to CXone Attendant users, you will be able to search for provisioned DIDs by number or point of contact (POC) name. Currently, the DID drop-down list only allows searching by POC number.

This feature will provide an improved search experience when assigning DIDs to users.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Sort and Filter Enhancements on Messages Tab

You will be able to sort and filter many columns in the Messages tab, including Status, Created Date, From, and Contact ID. Currently, the Messages tab provides limited sorting and filtering capability. This enhancement will make it easier to manage a larger list of voicemails. This will also allow you to perform a global search through the columns to easily find the records you are looking for.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Delete Voicemail Messages

Currently, voicemail messages cannot be completely deleted. This may cause performance issues for customers with very high voicemail volume. With this release, voicemail messages will be completely deleted according to the time frame set in the Voicemail Retention setting located on the CXone Attendant tab of your business unit.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

IEX WFM Integrated

Add-On: Employee Engagement Manager

Employee Engagement Manager (EEM) is a purchasable add-on for IEX WFM Integrated that supports schedule flexibility and enhances agent satisfaction in the contact center. In the Spring 2023 release, it will move from controlled release to general availability for organizations using IEX WFM Integrated. EEM offers significant benefits for all contact center roles.

 

EEM empowers agents to view and change their schedules from the convenience of any browser or from a smartphone app. Schedule-change options are matched to individual agents based on their WFM skills, preferences, and availability.

 

For supervisors, EEM provides a dashboard to monitor agent intraday performance. It also makes it easy to communicate with agents and WFM administrators via instant messaging.

 

WFM administrators can use EEM to analyze performance indicators and staffing level variances in real time. EEM also provides proactive recommendations when staffing adjustments are indicated.

 

Employee Engagement Manager automatically updates IEX WFM Integrated with schedule changes it receives. It enables you to automate and optimize up to 80% of your contact center’s manual intraday management processes. For more information on enhancing your IEX WFM Integrated system with Employee Engagement Manager, contact your Contact Center Account Representative. A minimum of 300 seats is required for this module.

 

 If you used Employee Engagement Manager in controlled release, you will notice these new features:

Interaction Analytics

More Filters for Search Page

The Search page will have new filter options that you can use to search all of your available data. You will be able to search by language, company profile terms, categories, and some commonly used metrics.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Enhancements to Auto-Suggestions

When you add a metric to a dataset, category, widget, or filter, a list of auto-suggestions appears. This list will be updated to remove auto-suggestions that are not helpful.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Language Support for European Spanish and Dutch

Users will be able to analyze interactions in European Spanish and Dutch (Netherlands) in addition to interactions in English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, and Spanish. You will be able to create separate datasets for each of these languages; that is, one language per dataset.

 

When you add European Spanish or Dutch (Netherlands) analysis to Interaction Analytics, a drop-down for language is available for dataset creation and for category and workspace templates. To support datasets in European Spanish and Dutch (Netherlands), you will be able to create custom categories, sentiments, and entities. Selected widgets and filtering capabilities will also support these languages. The Interaction Analytics user interface remains in English only.

 

Each language in addition to English is a purchasable add-on. Ask your Contact Center Account Representative for more information.

 

AutoDiscovery, Enlighten features, out-of-the-box annotations, and certain widgets will not be supported in European Spanish or Dutch (Netherlands).

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Localization

The UI for Interaction Analytics will display in the same language as the user's default browser settings. If a language is not supported, the default display language is English. Areas of the application that are configurable, such as dataset names, category names, and widget names, will not be translated. Supported languages will include:

  • French
  • Canadian French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Dutch (Netherlands)

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Set Default Language in BackOffice

You will be able to select a default language for interaction transcriptions. This will be helpful if your call center mostly uses a language other than English. You will only be able to select one language as the default. Any other language aside from the default will still need to be configured in the skills section of Back Office. The default will be set to English if no language is selected.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

MAX

Manual Fax Override

You will be able to enable a manual fax override button for Personal Connection calls. This will quickly mark the numbers as fax machines.

 

This is described in more detail in the Personal Connection section of this page.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Dutch (Netherlands) Language Support

Dutch (Netherlands) will be supported in MAX.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Voice Quality Metrics Integration

You will be able to collect Voice Quality Metrics data for agents using Integrated Softphone in MAX. Voice Quality Metrics is an application for near real-time monitoring of the quality of voice calls in Contact Center. You can use the application to discover, diagnose, and troubleshoot call quality issues for contact and agent call legs.

 

If you don't currently use Voice Quality Metrics and would like to add it in advance of this new feature, talk to your Contact Center Account Representative.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Manual Accept

When this setting is enabled, agents who are on an active voice connection in MAX will have to manually click Accept or Reject for any incoming contacts. This will allow agents to have complete control over when or if to accept incoming contacts. This feature will be released later in the Spring 2023 release cycle.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Partner Applications

Voice Quality Metrics

Monitor Quality of Service on WebRTC Agent Leg

Currently, Voice Quality Metrics monitors all SIP voice traffic. With this release, you will be able to monitor agents' WebRTC sessions. You will also get additional data, such as Internet Service Provider (ISP), location, average bit rate, average RTT, and other unique data specific to the WebRTC protocol.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Extended Data Retention

Currently, you can only see calls for a business unit for the last seven days. With this release, you will have the option to select the date range for the calls you want to view. The largest date range is the last 30 days.

 

This feature will allow you to monitor and troubleshoot data with a longer retention period and to compare between weeks.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Expanded WebRTC Data Elements with Filter and Export Capabilities

With the new ability to monitor agent’s WebRTC sessions, 14 relevant metrics will be added to the existing 32.

 

You will see the following data elements added as columns to the grid:

  • Agent Console Type
  • Agent Console Version
  • Average Bitrate (KBPS)
  • Average RTT (MS)
  • Browser
  • Call Setup time
  • ISP
  • Location City
  • Location Country
  • Media Transport
  • Operating System
  • OS version

You will also be able to filter the metrics and export them as a CSV file. This feature will enable you have more visibility on WebRTC metrics.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Filter Enhancements

The filter window will be enhanced to group both the current and new filter metrics into four different categories:

  • QoS Metrics
  • Call Attributes
  • ACD Attributes
  • Web Attributes

This will shorten the process of filtering data and improve the user experience by making it easier to find the right filter metric.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Integration with Call Quality Explorer

A new link for Call Quality Explorer (CQE) report will be added in the Call Details and Associated Contact Ids tab. This will open CQE in a separate tab. With this feature, you will be able to easily access the call’s associated contact ID, call events, and mega ladder.

 

You must enable CQE in Reporting permissions to see the link.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On toggle

Personal Connection

Improved Voicemail Laydown Accuracy

Contact Center will be able to deliver a voicemail when it reaches a voice mailbox with greater than 85% success rate. It will apply a disposition to indicate whether the voicemail was left successfully. This update will increase the number of successfully completed agentless interactions.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Incorporate Canadian Postal Codes in the Regional Lookup

The system will be able to locate time zones from a phone number prefix or Canadian postal code. This information will be used to comply with regulations regarding what time of day calls can be made to contacts.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Viewable and Modifiable Proactive XS Settings in Skill Management

You will be able to see whether Proactive XS interactions are currently active from the Skill Management page. You will also be able to make changes to them from the same screen. This will enable you to easily see the status of your Proactive XS-enabled Personal Connection ACD skills and quickly adjust incorrect settings.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Manual Fax Override in MAX

You will be able to enable a manual fax override button in MAX. This will help agents quickly dismiss a call they identify as a fax machine and will allow them to move on to the next call faster. To enable the button, set Call Progress Analysis to Classify or Classify with Answering Machine Detection and select Fax in the CPA Management parameters page.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Reporting and Dashboards

Data Download Reports

Improved Scheduling

Contact Center will adopt a new back-end tool for scheduling data download and custom reports. Instead of failing, reports run during high-traffic times will be queued until the system is able to process them.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Prebuilt Reports

Column Name Change in Billing Report

The Time column in the Billing report will be renamed to Date to better reflect the data.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Custom Reports

Custom Reporting Tool Tips

Various tool tips have been added to Custom Reporting. If you hover over a blue question mark, information will pop up to explain more about terms and features you're using.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

SmartAssist Powered by Amelia

Support for Amelia Version 5.6.3

SmartAssist will be updated to support Amelia version 5.6.3.

 

This feature will be deployed to all SmartAssist customers in advance of the Spring 2023 release. The current target date is January 2023.

Customer Request UI Change Availability On deploy

Fall 2023 Cumulative Update 2

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

ACD

  • In some systems, transferred calls became stuck.
  • Users couldn't access hours of operation profiles if its expiration date was earlier than the current date. 
  • Users couldn't save changes made to the workflow data edit page. 

Developer Portal

  • For some clusters, running Admin API > General > DELETE /files on the developer portal failed with a Failed to fetch error.

MAX

  • When an agent entered text in an email reply while in the ACW state, the drafted reply was deleted when the ACW state timed out.

Personal Connection

  • In systems where predictive dialing was disabled, users couldn't update the Consecutive Attempts without a Live Connect field for dialer skills where the dialing ratio was 1.
  • In certain system configurations, dialer calls were automatically dispositioned as Answering Machine Left Message instead of routing to an agent.
  • Changes to call suppression settings didn't appear in the audit history for a dialer skill.
  • In some systems, the agentless dialer would reach a contact and fail to play a message. When this happened, it assigned an error disposition to the call. 

Platform

  • Rarely, users in a system lost access to many applications and pages in CXone.

Reporting

  • The Contact Details report didn't play chat recordings. Instead, it returned error 8202.
  • Sometimes the data extraction tool from a data download report would fail with a timeout error.
  • When agents applied tags to email contacts in MAX, some of those tags didn't appear in the Contact Details report. 

Studio

  • Users on the beta cluster couldn't open Studio scripts they had updated in the Fall 2023 version. 
  • The GRYPHON DNC V2 action didn't send optional variables like zip code and campaign name.
  • In some systems, the RUNAPP action produced an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.

Cumulative Update 3

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

New Feature

This cumulative update introduces the following feature:

  • Update Requires All Studio Users to Clear Studio Cache

ACD

  • Email contacts sometimes generated recordings that were several hours long. 
  • Interactions where the contact hung up in the IVR sometimes produced recordings that were several hours long. 
  • ACD skill profiles sometimes showed that edits were made by "not applicable". 
  • Users couldn't open ACD Skills unless they had the Hours of Operation View permission enabled. 
  • Editing the Workflow Data settings returned the error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request." 
  • Agents sometimes received a busy error when they transferred a contact to another skill. 

MAX

  • Contacts were sometimes routed to agents through a skill that the agent was no longer assigned to. 
  • In preview dialing, the Accept button didn't work.

Platform

  • Users couldn't log in to Contact Center with Federated Identity.

Reporting

  • For custom reports that included callback requests, transferred calls were associated with the original contact ID of the interaction, not the contact ID assigned to the interaction after the transfer.

Studio

  • In scripts that sent an email with a voicemail recording as an attachment, the email would sometimes send before the attachment was ready.
  • In some systems, saving a Studio script took several seconds to complete.
  • The Studio debugger sometimes returned the error "Could not load file or assembly." 
  • Studio would download an old version of Cefsharp instead of the latest. 

Minor Feature Release - December 2023

This page shows features currently planned for the December 2023 Minor release. Features are subject to change between now and the final release dates. Users will be able to access these features, depending on their permissions and purchased applications, once their system has been updated.

The online help continues to reflect the previous version of the product being used by most customers.

Agent for Salesforce

See the Agent for Salesforce release history for a list of previous versions.

WatchRTC SDK Integration

The WatchRTC SDK will be integrated with Agent for Salesforce. It provides an overview of WebRTC health for your organization. It will automatically collect application and user data for you to analyze. Integrated Softphone and Voice Quality Metrics must be enabled in your system before you can use it.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Agent for SCV

Real-Time Sentiment Analysis

In this release, Service Cloud Voice will support real-time sentiment analysis of call conversations. Agents and supervisors will be able to view turn-by-turn sentiment. They will also have access to call recordings from previous conversations.

This feature will allow supervisors to do the following:

  • Identify positive or negative experiences between agents and contacts.
  • Listen to recorded call segments.
  • Improve agent training based on the sentiment analysis.

This feature will only be available for Salesforce organizations in North America.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

DEVone Integrations

Frontline Agent Client for Kustomer

You will be able to embed the Frontline Agent Client (FAC) into the Kustomer CRM. This will let agents handle conversations from one screen all within the CRM. FAC will be powered by Contact Center infrastructure and integrate with the functionality of Kustomer. For example, new interactions automatically create conversations in Kustomer.

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API Signature Service

The API signature service is an API that will let you enhance your security with the following features:

  • Create JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  • Support for RSA signatures
  • Support for RSA and AES encyption and decryption
  • Support for hash and HMAC hash
  • Using certificates for the above features

Customer Request UI Change Availability On toggle

Feedback Management

These features will be available later in the release cycle, in January 2024.

Added Survey Substatuses

Two new substatuses will help you monitor IVR engagement. They will help you determine why contacts didn't take a survey they agreed to take while waiting in a call queue.

  • Skipped: No Warm Transfer to Survey: The agent failed to connect the contact to the survey. This substatus appears in the invitation charts and the Invitations and Responses page.

Customer Request
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  • Not Sent: Hung Up in Queue: The contact hung up after agreeing to take the survey but before being connected with an agent. The Survey Invitation Detail chart will show the real-time count of contacts who meet the described criteria. Feedback Management won't report additional information about the contacts, and their contact records won't be available anywhere in Feedback Management. This feature will only be available for customers migrating from ECHO to Feedback Management.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Undo and Redo Buttons in Text Editors

In text editors throughout Feedback Management, undo and redo buttons will be available. These will allow you to undo your most recent action in the text editor and to redo an action you just undid.

This feature will not be available on the Web Intercept page.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Reporting and Dashboards

Improved Security for Direct Data Access

Currently, you log in to Direct Data Access using a username and password. In this release, Direct Data Access will support a new authentication method. You will be able to use an access key and a secret key for your login credentials. Eventually, you will only use these keys instead of a username and password. This will enhance security and help protect your information.

Customer Request
UI Change Availability On deploy

Cumulative Update 4

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

ACD

  • When an agent using a work item skill that required a disposition transferred a work item to a skill that didn't require a disposition, the work item stayed with the original agent and wouldn't transfer. 
  • When a user's name included Japanese characters, the ACD screen didn't display correctly. 
  • When an agent script became stuck, calls wouldn't route to available agents. 
  • In some systems, contacts became stuck and weren't routed to agents.

Studio

  • When SNIPPET actions contained a RestProxy object that accessed urlencode, an error was returned.

Cumulative Update 5

These are the bugs and known issues that are fixed on this update.

ACD

  • Hours of operation frequently threw exceptions when the browser was set to a language other than English.
  • In some dynamic delivery routing environments, agents would set their state to Available and immediately have it change to Unavailable - Refused.
  • When an invalid contact was routed, the assigned agent was automatically placed in a Refused state.
  • Interactions where the contact hung up in the IVR sometimes produced recordings that were several hours long.
  • The Workflow Data page sometimes showed a "rate exceeded" error that resulted in users not being able to make updates to Workflow Data.
  • Workflow Data pages sometimes returned a "bad request" error when users tried to make updates.
  • When a user's name included Japanese characters, the ACD screen didn't display correctly.

API

  • In v27, GET/agents/state-history took a long time to execute and sometimes timed out.

Reporting

  • In report schedules, sometimes the schedule recurrence settings weren't saved correctly.
  • In the Abandon Rate Compliance report, the Answered column always showed a value of 0.

Studio

  • In some linked script scenarios, the child script didn't return to the parent script.
  • REST API ACTION took the error branch while executing any REST API endpoint URL.
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