Add a New Fax Account

Click on  to add a New Fax Account:

and insert the requested values:

• Name: the name of the Fax account
• Key: here you can define a short name (5 char maximum) for this Account that will be shown on the Agents interactions tabs
• Trunk: choose one of the trunks in the list (it must be created before)
• Local Station Identifier: Local station identification text string that identifies the sender to the remote side of the fax transmission
• List: the default List where the new Fax contacts will be saved in the Contacts Manager, if it is not already there
• Description: insert here a description (optional)

At the end click on Add Fax Account.

Edit/Modify a Fax Account

On the FAX Accounts list click on  related to the one you want to edit/modify in order to:

• Edit the FAX Account
• Go to Interactions list for the Account
• Go to Realtime environment
• Add Agent to FAX Account
• Delete FAX Accounts

Editing a Fax Account you have a list of Sections:

Settings

General

In this section you can edit and change the values inserted when adding the Fax Account:

You can also configure the following parameters: 

• Add a customized Header Info for the outbound Fax
• Wait for the Assigned Agent: the time a new message waits for the same Agent currently managing the interaction (with closed tab) to accept it, when the Agent is not available on the system because logged out or in pause. By default 10 seconds; the allowed values range is 1-2147483. 
• Wait for the Assigned Queue: If the Agent currently managing the interaction doesn't accept a new message within the Assigned Agent Timeout or rejects it, the interaction is transferred to the Queue which the Agent is part of. The parameter Wait for the Assigned Queue is the time a new message waits for an Agent in that Queue to accept it, before proceeding with the action plan. By default 10 seconds; the allowed values range is 1-2147483. 

Transfer

Toggle to enable/disable the Agent transfer to a queue or to another agent and set the specific timeout (the time in seconds the message will wait to be accepted before returning back as unread). 

Advanced

Advanced

In this section you can change the following values:

• ECM: Error Correction Mode (ECM) enable/disable option (default=enabled)
• Min Rate/Max Rate: Minimum/Maximum transfer rate used during fax rate negotiation (default minimum=2400 and maximum=14400)
• Modem: A comma separated list of one or more of the possible values (default value=V17,V27,V29)
• Gateway: enable/disable the server as gateway (default=no)
• Fax Detect: Enable Fax Detect with optional timeout in seconds (Default=no)
• T.38 Timeout: The timeout used for T.38 negotiation (minimum value=1000)
• Technology: Trunk Technology used for outgoing fax (Default=SIP)

Disposition

• Mandatory Disposition: enable it you want the Agent to be forced to dispose the interactions managed and set the Agent pause status to be automatically applied during this operation (default=NO). 

Dispositions

The Dispositions created here will be available when the Agent disposes a mail message coming from this account

See here How to Manage Dispositions.

Actions

In this section you should define the Actions for the Fax account to be executed by adding applications, working rules and intervals:

Interactions

In this section you can find the list of the Fax interactions occurred on the Account:

You can filter the interaction list by Start Date, Read/Unread, Status (Open/Closed), Website, Agent, Tags:

or use the  button to activate the Advanced Search and select a field to be matched with a value among a list of all those available.

When you click this button, the system will show you the input form:

Now do the following:

• Select the Field (scroll the list of all the available search fields)

• Select the Operator among those available (eg.: equals, contains, starts with, and so on)

• Select or insert the Value

• Add the Condition (click on )

To add more than one condition, repeat the operation, like in the following example:

and choose whether the conditions must all be met:

or at least one of them:

When you finish, click on the  button in order to start the search: the query is executed and all the items that match the conditions inserted are shown.

If you want to delete the advanced search condition inserted click on the single search condition button to delete it or click on the  button in order to delete all the conditions set at once.

On this form it is possible to:

• modify a condition set: click on a set condition and press Edit

now change the condition as you like(field, operator, value)

• temporarily disable the search condition: click on the set condition and press Disable:

and enable it again

On this list, you can select one or more mail interactions and download the information about them in a CSV file (click on the corresponding checkbox and then on the icon ) or delete them (click on the corresponding checkbox and then on the trash bin ):

On the single interaction, the Supervisor can use the three dots command menu  in order to:

• Spy the interaction and eventually insert a secret note in the interaction that the agent will be able to see 
• Download a zip file containing the transcript of the interaction
• Delete the interaction

Add Agent to FAX Account

On the FAX Accounts list you can add Agents in two ways:

• select the FAX Account and click on , than choose the menu entry Add Agent to FAX Account:
  
• edit the Fax Account and than click on the add menu button:

and select the agents from the list:

If the agents are not added to the SMS Account, they will not be able to see the interactions exchanged in this account interactions list.