Monitor Your Contact Center with Omni-Channel Supervisor

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

• Explain how Omni-Channel Supervisor provides a comprehensive view of your support team’s work.
• Use Omni-Channel Supervisor to monitor agents, queues, work, and backlog.
• Create a custom report type for Omni-Channel.

Follow Along with Trail Together

Want to follow along with an expert as you work through this step? Take a look at this video, part of the Trail Together series.

(This clip starts at the 32:10 minute mark, in case you want to rewind and watch the beginning of the step again.)

Here’s how Maria adds Omni-Channel Supervisor to her console.

1. From Setup, enter App Manager in the Quick Find box, then select App Manager.
2. Next to Service Console, click the down arrow then click Edit.
3. Click the Navigation Items vertical tab.
4. Search the Available Items for Omni Supervisor and add it to Selected Items.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Back.

Maria takes her time exploring Omni-Channel Supervisor. Let’s follow along.

Do you have a case open? Open work gives you more to look at. If you’ve closed your case, no problem. Create another case and route it to yourself using Omni-Channel. Alternately, you can just look through Omni-Channel Supervisor without any open work records and let your imagination fill in the rest.

This is where supervisors and managers can get an overview of who’s online, what channels and queues everyone is assigned to, and how close to capacity everyone is.

But there’s no one here!

3. Open the Omni-Channel Widget and Change Your Status to Available

Now you’re online as an agent, and you can see the time-based fields counting up by the second. That’s real-time data.

As the supervisor, you can change an agent’s status on this view. You can also sort and filter by each field to quickly get information you need, such as how many agents are at capacity, or who’s able to take chats.

4. Click Your Name to Open the Agent Detail View 

You can see your recent statuses, from when you popped in and out of the console to test Omni-Channel. If you still have a case open, you can see it under Current Work.5. Click Agent Timeline to See the Timeline View of Your Work

As an agent opens and closes their work, time-boxed work items appear here so you can see how long they’ve worked on each item and how their work overlaps. You can also see their status changes, so you can make sure they’re taking enough breaks during the day.

If you go back to the Agent Summary view, there’s a tab to see the Agents by Queue view. This view shows you how your queues are staffed. But you’re the only agent online and you have only one queue, so let’s move on.

6. Click the Queues Backlog Tab

Here supervisors can see all their Omni-Channel queues and get a quick look at how they’re doing. As work comes in, the longest and average wait times update to reflect the most accurate times.

If you followed along in the previous unit, you have at least one item in the queue. Click your queue to see the queue detail view. Here you can see all the work assigned to the queue and a ton of relevant information. Again, you can sort and filter the fields to find exactly what you’re looking for.

7. Click the Assigned Work Tab

This is your Work Summary view. You can see vital information like the average handle time by queue.

Click any queue to see the work detail view, where you can see all the work assigned to the queue. You can see other details too, like which agent is assigned to the work, how long each item’s been open, and the active handle time (how long the work is open and in focus). Because it doesn’t need to be refreshed, you always have an accurate count.

Even though your console has only one agent, queue, and work item, you can probably see how useful Omni Supervisor can be for agent supervisors and managers. But what good is all this data if you can’t take a look at how it changes over time? That’s where reports come in.

First, let’s create a report type for Omni-Channel.

1. From Setup, type Report Types in the Quick Find box, and click Report Types.
2. If you see the What is a Custom Report Type? page, click Continue.
3. Click New Custom Report Type.
4. Select Agent Work as the Primary Object.
5. Enter Omni-Channel Reports for the Report Type Label (the report type name auto-fills to Omni_Channel_Reports).
6. Enter the description: Report using Omni-Channel data.
7. Select Customer Support Reports for Store in Category.
8. Select Deployed.
9. Click Next.
10. We aren’t creating any object relationships, so click Save.

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