Dialogue Cloud

Release Notes - Feature Release DC2022.04

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This document contains a list of the updates and current versions of AnywhereNow software and components.

Updated Components

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+= updated in this bundle.
Component Version
Power BI

8.2.22262.01

Snapper 8.4.6
Inflight Wallboard (client) 6.5.5

SharePoint-related settings changes

WebAgent in combination with Remote Call Controls

Due to technical improvements made to Remote Call Controls, the WebAgent Service now uses the API Plugin to get detailed information regarding Call Controls' Dialogue Capabilities.

For this reason, the API Plugin has become mandatory as of the DC2022.04 bundle update. See: Install API plugin

WebAgent in combination with Email Text Sessions

The new email functionally has been upgraded to a full session. This now includes the ability to use attachments and canned responses. In addition, these session will now be logged in the CDR Call Detail Records (CDR) are the meta data of a converstation: who talked to whom, at which time, for how long and with which identity among other things (skill, optional classification, etc) which gets stored in your SQL (analytical) database. database, so they can be counted in the reporting tool. To accommodate these new features, you now need to assign a skill to the Outbound Text session.

When updating from DC2022.03 to DC2022.04 or higher, make sure the following changes are made:

  • Define the "OutboundTextSkill" (Scope: WebAgentService) plugin setting. This required as of this release, when using New Email. Learn More

WebAgent in combination with WebChat Text Sessions

A chat conversation can now be published as a transcript and offered to the customer using adaptive cards so they can save their conversation for reference. To accommodate this new feature, you now need to define the publicly accessible locations of the WebChat Dialogue Provider.

When updating from DC2022.03 to DC2022.04 or higher, make sure the following changes are made:

  • The plugin setting "Uri" (Scope: WebChatDialogueProvider2) became mandatory, See: Setting: Uri

New Features

Description PBI
Support for Azure AD App Only authentication towards SharePoint Online. For more details see AnywhereNow Dialogue Cloud Microsoft Entra ID Enterprise Applications 59001
Outbound Text sessions for WebAgent Email. Email functionality has been upgraded to a full session. This now includes the ability to include attachments and canned responses. Session will also now be logged in the CDR database, so they can be included reporting. To learn more, see: Outbound Text Session 49508
Auto Finish Audio Dialogue. For WebAgent users who want to have the conversation removed as soon as one of the participants disconnects, there is now a new settings to auto-finish the conversation. See: AutoFinishAudioDialogue 42510, 58565
WebChat 2.0 - Provide user-readable transcript. Within a chat conversation, transcripts can now be published and offered to the customer using adaptive cards. It allows customers to save their conversation for reference. See: WebAgent Transcripts 55266
BullHorn CTI integration. Expanding our portfolio of CRM Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, is (usually) a software-based, data management method to deal with interactions with customers and potential customers. integrations, BullHorn CRM CTI is now available. The WebAgent can now directly be embedded inside BullHorn CRM. To learn more, see: WebAgent for Bullhorn 57486
BullHorn CrmService. Adding to our portfolio of standardized CRM integrations, BullHorn CRM is now available. Information from the CRM is shown in the WebAgent, providing context for the agent handling dialogues with known contacts. 51431
Disabling CTI Settings variable. With this setting specific options the CTI settings menu will become hidden. See: Disable CTI Settings variable 57975

Feature Improvements

Description PBI
Concurrent Call Limits. To more accurately limit number of concurrent calls, all call types are now taken into account. The following call types are part of the total number of concurrent calls taking place: 54389
Changes in on hold behavior. It is now possible to initiate a consultative transfer from within the WebAgent once a call is put on hold. Furthermore, if the call is not yet on hold when initiating a transfer, it will be put on hold automatically. Finally, if a transfer fails, the call remains on hold, and must be manually resumed by the Agent. 49596
(Queued) Callback CallBack, an IVR menu feature for voice, enables the customer to confirm or leave an alternative phone number to be called back by an available agent during business hours. supporting additional languages Microsoft Cognitive Services- and Google Text-to-Speech can now be utilized by both the Queued Call Back as well as the regular Call Back functionality. This makes it possible to use this capability in UCCs that service customers in a language that is missing from the default Text-to-Speech service used by AnywhereNow, but is supported by either one of the two forementioned Text-to-Speech services. 52809
Database changes. Databases have been optimized to increase efficiency. The management of deadlocked queries has also been tweaked to speed up their resolution.

Note

New SQL scripts are included, that need to be run before installing

58476
San Diego Support for WebAgent ServiceNow CTI. WebAgent has been optimized to support the San Diego version of ServiceNow. See: Supported ServiceNow version 58559
Improved WebAgent SAP C4C CTI functionality. New functions have been added. For more details, see: Extended WebAgent for SAP C4C  
Contact information displayed in first tab for Small view. When using the WebAgent in small view, you can now select the Contact Information as the default tab to open. 56152
Re-ordering of greeting labels. In certain languages the capitalization and/or the order of greeting messages could differ from English. Greetings have now been appropriately rearranged in WebAgent. 57230
Improved Dialpad design. The WebAgent dialpad has been refreshed visually. New visual cues include indications from which UCC DCI calls are performed. See: Visually updated Dial pad 52680
WebAgent UI Modified for navigation within Microsoft Teams. To prevent UI conflicts with Microsoft Teams left navigation, WebAgent icons will be shown in the top left. Alternative for navigation when loaded in Microsoft Teams 56783
Return the last message when First Tab isn't Conversation If your default WebAgent tab wasn't Conversation and you switched to the Conversation tab, you would see the oldest message. This has been changes to display the newest message. 58345
Improved WebChat Hyperlink behavior. URLs are now detected and automatically converted to a hyperlink, allowing the customer receiving the text message to open it with a simple click. 55368

Feature Enhancements

Description PBI
Correct Agent is displayed. Agent display name is now correctly displayed after completing a consultative transfer successfully. The WebWallboard will now keep displaying the correct Agent name. 59200
Campaign Dialer Status display. Fixed issue in which Campaign dialer calls sometimes inaccurately displayed the call as accepted before the customer actually accepted the call. 37534
DCI Call results. Correctly report the outcome of the DCI call when the customer did not accept the call. PowerBI reports will now distinguish between the Customer accepting and not accepting the DCI call. 52999
Primary participant is now correctly updated during a Intercepted Outbound Call. Putting an Outbound Call (Intercepted) on hold in the WebAgent will no longer trigger an error message. 57706
New Conversations with multiple UCCs now work as expected (WebChat 2.0).Fixed issue in which setups with multiple UCC's, but in which not all UCCs have had the WebChatDialogueProvider2 Plug-in properly configured, new UCC conversation would fail. 59079
Messages no longer lost between pickup and acceptance. (WebChat 2.0). Fixes issue in which new messages would be delayed and not be displayed when the Agent finally accepted the conversation. Refreshing the WebAgent window (F5) would fix this, but is no longer necessary. 57081
Refresh Token Error in CRM Service for ServiceNow now handled appropriately. Improved handling and logging when a refresh token error occurs. 58455
Restored polling when still using EWS (Email Dialogue Provider). Although we recommend using Microsoft Graph with Email Dialogue Provider, Exchange used in on premises setups still require the use of EWS. Setups operation using this mixed mode (with both Microsoft Graph and EWS) would result in stalled EWS polling. This has been resolved. 59765
Illegal XML characters no longer block queue (Email Dialogue Provider). 59511
WebAgent Resume button now works as expected during active call. Fixed issue in which pressing the Resume button with unfinished calls would sometimes trigger errors. 56833
Call handling now possible after classification of disconnected call (WebAgent ). 56947
CRM Contact Search input is now cleared after missed call (WebAgent). A defect causing the next call to show the results of the previous missed call has been fixed. 58475
Error 401 or 500 notifications now correctly use the timer (WebAgent). Error notifications sometimes remained on the screen even if a timer was configured. Now all notifications will use the timer setting. 57415
All classifications are now displayed as expected (WebAgent). on the on the second level Fixed an issue in which setups using multiple levels of classifications with many options would not display all second-level classifications. 58302
Mute button during Consult or Delight now works as designed (WebAgent). Fixed an issue in which pressing the mute button during a Consult or Delight transfer did not mute the conversation appropriately. 48621