Remote Agent - Phone Login & Phone Dispo

[hellocaller]

Hi Guys,

I have remote agent setup working perfectly. But there is a scope of improvement in our process, for which I need advice.

Is it possible for Remote Agent to "Login" or "Enable" themself by calling a specific extension? I think that will be possible messing around the asterisk dial plans.

Now comes the tough part, our agent need to sit down in evening on a computer to dispose there call which they have attended during the day. Is there anyway using which they can use DTMF after the call to dispose it off?

Regards,
Hello Caller Team,

ViciBox5.x86_64-5.0.3.preload from .iso | Vicidial: 2.8-381c BUILD: 130925-2119 | Asterisk 1.8.23 | Single Server

[williamconley]

I can do you one better than that! LOL

Have a look at remote_dispo.php & vdremote.php both in the /vicidial/ folder.

Of course, if you want to have some fun ... we could always set the system up to either allow your DTMF tone after the call or allow the system to auto-call the agent after the call and present a menu. But that's a lot more work than allowing the agents to log in and dispo their calls. We've altered those two pages a bit for a couple clients to allow linking between them for simplified modifications.

[jmathew]

Is it possible for Remote Agent to "Login" or "Enable" themself by calling a specific extension? I think that will be possible messing around the asterisk dial plans.

Is there anyway using which they can use DTMF after the call to dispose it off?

Can we have a bounty on it. This is for a small call centre where we don't have desktop computers for users making calls.

[williamconley]

If your users do not have desktop computers, all you have to do is set the agents up with "Remote Agent" settings. That's what "Remote Agent" is for.

If you want some form of after-the-fact dispositioning (audio, not via computer), it would be possible to have the system call back after each call (allowing the agent to terminate the connection with the prospect, and then dispo'ing as a separate act) and have the dispo's read to them and allow them to select. It would also be possible for the agent to "call in" and dispo (and less expensive, too).

I think this would take somewhere around 10 hours to build and test.

[jmathew]

Thank you William for your reply...... We have tried using remote agents with vicidial system. We could log in users to campaign and have the campaign dial lead sets automatically and answered calls are getting sent to enabled agents. But with "Remote Agent", the administrator who has a computer has to login and logout remote agents. When somebody has to go for a break, they then have to inform the administrator to log them out. Now, what i was looking for is to have the agents have the independency to login and logout from the desired campaign and dispose calls, just like you do with normal agents, with computers.

[jmathew]

I have been using ODBC to get the Remote Agent login and logout from the phone itself, without using computers. Just by dialling extensions.

ODBC for asterisk can be installed with help at this link.

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/en/3rd_Edit ... _odbc.html

Once done, this you put in the context your phone uses. all you have to do is keep the phone, user and remote agent as same. and this trick works.

exten => 543,1,Answer()
exten => 543,n,SET(_CLI=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => 543,n,SET(ODBC_REMOTELOGIN(${CLI})=)
exten => 543,n,Playback(agent-loginok)
exten => 543,n,Hangup()




exten => 544,1,Answer()
exten => 544,n,SET(_CLI=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => 544,n,SET(ODBC_REMOTELOGOUT(${CLI})=)
exten => 544,n,Playback(agent-loggedoff)
exten => 544,n,Hangup()



In func_odbc.conf you can put the sql query as below.

[REMOTELOGIN]
dsn=asterisk
write=UPDATE vicidial_remote_agents SET status = 'ACTIVE' WHERE user_start=${ARG1} LIMIT 1;


[REMOTELOGOUT]
dsn=asterisk
write=UPDATE vicidial_remote_agents SET status = 'INACTIVE' WHERE user_start=${ARG1} LIMIT 1;

[mflorell]

Thanks for the update!

[jmathew]

It should be the other way...

thank you Matt for the wonderful application you have provided.

the thing that remained pending is to dispose calls after the call.

Just create another table in asterisk database with the dispositions that you require the agent to dispose the calls.

I have created another table as "dipos" and put the below values in it. This i guess should match with the statuses that is available in the existing "vicidial_statuses"

srno dispo
1 A
2 SALE
3 NI
4 DC


Once done, put this in the context the phone uses;

exten => _55X,1,Answer()
exten => _55X,n,SET(_DISP=${EXTEN:2})
exten => _55X,n,SET(_CLI=${CALLERID(num)})
exten => _55X,n,SET(_DIP=${ODBC_STALIST(${DISP})})
exten => _55X,n,SET(_LEAD=${ODBC_RMDISPO(${CLI})})
exten => _55X,n,SET(ODBC_UPDISPO(${DIP},${LEAD})=)
exten => _55X,n,SET(ODBC_UPLIST(${DIP},${LEAD})=)
exten => _55X,n,Hangup()

put this in func_odbc.conf

[RMDISPO]
dsn=asterisk
read=Select lead_id From vicidial_log where user = ${ARG1} order by uniqueid desc LIMIT 1;


[STALIST]
dsn=asterisk
read=Select dispo from dipos where srno=${ARG1};

[UPDISPO]
dsn=asterisk
write=UPDATE vicidial_log SET status = '${ARG1}' WHERE lead_id=${ARG2};

[UPLIST]
dsn=asterisk
write=UPDATE vicidial_list SET status = '${ARG1}' where lead_id=${ARG2};

Once this is configured and setup properly. The agent has to dial 55[1-4] from their phones immediately from their phones when they finish their call. so, I guess this has to be real quick that they need to dispose the call before receiving another call.


For example if the last call has to be disposed as A then the agent has to dial 551, if SALE, then they have to dial 552, if NI, then 553 like wise ....

The things to remember part is to have the statuses part match exactly with "vicidial_statuses". If new statuses are created, and they have to be put in '"dipos" table and should be created from Admin>>System Statues in the vicidial web interface too.

I hope it has scope of improvement and veterans can look into and suggest.

thanks again Matt for the wonderful application.

[susam]

Is it working in new vicidial 9.0.2 version? Actually I am looking for some solution in this lock down situation, agent login into softphone in mobile and disposition those calls after hung-up, and can remote agents do manual dial from softphone?