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Release Notes v12.3

Release Notes v12.3

This document contains the release summary of Supervisor Tools version 12.3.

Release Summary

This is a minor release of Supervisor Tools with the following changes:

  • Supervisor Tools Finesse Gadget for Supervisors

  • SSO with Finesse for Supervisor gadget

  • Multilingual UI support

Note

This release has been tested for compatibility only with CCX 11.6. This release is not tested with CCE.

Change History

Release

Change

Date

12.3

Major release with

  • Supervisor Tools Finesse Gadget for Supervisors

  • SSO with Finesse for Supervisor gadget

  • Multilingual UI support

February 20, 2019

12.2

Major release for CCE customers with

  • Caller Lists

  • KPIs
  • Easy Announcements
  • Business Calendars

Jan 15, 2019

12.0

Major release with

  • An implementation of

microservice-based
architecture

  • Permission-based access
  • High availability support
  • Software license key implementation
  • Platform shift to Linux (CentOS)
  • Easier deployment as a Docker container
  • Caller list made independent, working as a separate microservice or module
November 05th, 2018
11.1.18

Minor release with

  • Changes in ECM Call Strategies UI design, with an option to select the channel (SMS and Voice)
  • Changes in Campaign Definition
  • Support for up to five phone numbers
  • Business Calendar
    changes and support
    of a single shift schedule

November 24, 2017
11.1.17

Minor release with

  • Compatibility of Easy Announcement with MSSQL 2014
September 26, 2017
11.1.16

Minor release with

  • Multiple shift schedules.
  • Naming the shift schedule
August 28, 2017
11.1.15

Minor release with

ECM compatibility with
UCCE 11.5

July 17, 2017
11.1.14

Major release with:

  • UCCE Support
  • Improvements in Prompt Management
  • Separate Application Settings interface
June 23, 2017
11.1.13

Major release with:

  • Business Calendars
  • Caller lists
  • UCCX failover support
  • Build Installer
May 1, 2017
11.1.11

Major release with:

  • Support for

virtualized/ shared
contact centers with
single CCX instance

  • Improvements in Easy Announcements
  • Support to change application script variables
January 25, 2016
11.0.1608

Initial release document for

release 11.0.

August 24, 2016

Enhancements/Updated Features

Supervisor Tools Finesse Gadget

The new Finesse gadget for Cisco Contact Center Express supervisors allows supervisors to manage agent teams, queues, and agent skills right from within the Supervisor Finesse desktop. The web-based admin application opens in the Finesse desktop and allows access to the supervisor’s workspace based on the workspaces assigned to him/her.

The application also continues to serve for the system administrators as a web-based portal to manage users and permissions.

SSO with Finesse

The SSO with Finesse allows supervisors on to the Supervisor gadget as soon as they log on to their Cisco Finesse desktop.

Multilingual UI

The application now supports rendering the user interface in multiple languages. following languages :

  • English (Default)

  • French

  • Italian

  • German

Browser Compatibility

The recommended browser for using Supervisor Tools application is Chrome 72

Open Issues 

IssueSummaryAlternative

Do not Press F5 or Ctrl+F5 on
these pages:

  • Easy Announcement
  • Business Calendar
  • Queue List

We recommend not to press F5/CTRL+F5 to refresh the
page. To refresh a list or see new changes, navigate from
some other page/list to the current page.

Marked for next release

No translation of months names in the calendar view

in the calendar view in Announcements and Calendars

Marked for next release

Update error message

While creating an item in the application, the name should contain three characters. If the user tries to an item, with less than three characters in the name (created from CCX administration), the application throws an error.

Marked for next release
Skill

The skill level of a skill  

Marked for future release

Prompts having spaces within

If you upload a prompt through UCCX which has spaces in its .

So always make sure that the prompts do not have spaces in their names.

Marked for next release

Important Notes/ Limitations

SummaryRelated Feature/ Screen

The name of an item should not contain special characters or spaces while creating via Supervisor Tools app. If the user creates any such items in CCX, they cannot later from the EF application.  

All lists

. .

All Application/Language

Once a language from the language selection menu, needs to press F5 to apply the translation

All Application/Language

in English

API response

When a user updates the shift schedule, the changes do not reflect on the calendar immediately.

The user has to navigate to some other page and come to the page to see the updates.

Business Calendar

A supervisor having no workspace log on to the application unless a workspace by the administrator

User Management

Only the following pre-defined roles for UCCX deployments.:

  • Junior Supervisor

  • Agent

  • Supervisor

  • Administrator

these roles, user-defined roles can also as well

User Management

user who has CCX capability “supervisor” assigned along with “agent” being a user of Supervisor Tools. :

  • Agent, Supervisor

  • Agent, Supervisor, Administrator

  • Agent, Supervisor, Reporting

  • Agent, Supervisor, Administrator, Reporting

User Management

the UCCX Synced Supervisors, local users can now also .

User Management

On the first time deployment, each user synced from CCX will by default have the “Supervisor” role in Supervisor Tools. Note that the role changes in Supervisor do not map with user capabilities in CCX and are internal to Supervisor Tools application

User Management

with the “All Agent List” permission. So, a user will upload the agent picture only if the “All Agents” permission.

User Management

When a user logs in, he has list read permissions on all the lists, but he can perform actions on those lists to him.

User Management

A supervisor, by default, has access to the following screens:

  • Agents

  • CSQs

  • Announcements & Calendars

  • Prompts

  • Scripts

  • Applications

User Management

A Junior Supervisor has access to the following screens:

  • Agents

  • CSQs

User Management

An Admin has the access to all the above along with:

  • Users

  • System Settings (Skills, Agent groups, Regions, Preference Settings)

  • Workspaces

User Management

Whenever a new user in CUCM, the “User list” needs to to see the newly added user

User Management

We do not recommend changing the id of an  agent in CUCM

User Management

If from CUCM, it will take time to synchronize with CCX. However, you might need to re-login to see the changes in the User list

User Management

In the Agent list, an administrator will see all agents (supervisors, administrators) in the system. However, for a supervisor, he’ll only see a list of agents who belong to his team

Agent Management

While uploading profile pictures, please note that

Agent Management

At the moment, “agent alias” as part of the agent profile

Agent Management

Whenever a new agent in CUCM, the Agent list needs to to see the newly added agent

Agent Management

in “green” color while in “blue” color

CSQ Management

in queue names

CSQ Management

For a resource-based queue, all the agents within the mapped resource group will appear as part of the queue. However, to see all the agents within a queue, you may need to refresh the page

CSQ Management

The agents added within a resource-based queue automatically become a part of the mapped resource group

CSQ Management

You can also manually add agents to the queue who are not part of any other resource group

CSQ Management

Please note that changes to the order of agents within a queue, made from CCX or from Supervisor Tools

CSQ Management

At the moment, you cannot upload zip files of prompts. However, you can upload files in bulk. To upload prompts in bulk, hold the CTRL button while selecting the prompts

Prompts Management

Note you cannot upload a prompt file on the root folder

Prompts Management

Spaces in folder names and prompt names are neither allowed nor recommended since CCX APIs do not allow to add spaces in the names of the objects

Prompts Management

The application doesn’t allow to upload an already uploaded audio prompt

Prompts Management

The application always shows “Administrator” as the name of the owner who uploaded the prompt. This is because to CCX using admin credentials so, the name of the owner remains “Administrator”

Prompts Management

An admin can optionally attach a workspace to an easy announcement

Easy Announcements

If an admin creates an easy announcement without selecting a that announcement will remain private to users having administrator role and would not be accessible for other supervisors. So supervisors the announcement

Easy Announcements

While creating an announcement, if there is a mismatch between the service DN and the workspace selection, the supervisor of the workspace will access and the announcement. However, since the DN attached to the announcement is not a part of the supervisor’s workspace, the supervisor see the attached DN. supervisor will see a warning, “Limited access! Add one of the service DN’s of your workspace to this announcement”

Easy Announcements

If , the application will automatically delete all instances of the announcement

Easy Announcements

A supervisor with no workspace assigned can see all easy announcements

Easy Announcements

If UCCX won’t recognize it and so attach the script manually again, with the application. that a script being used with an application should not

Script Management

You cannot upload a ZIP file of scripts and prompts. However, you can bulk upload the files

Script Management

because CCX APIs do not allow to add spaces in the name

Script Management

You cannot download a script from Supervisor Tools  interface

Script Management

If an application then it cannot .

Application Management

A script variable if deleted from scripts list interface should to NULL or no prompt in the CCX application to get it removed

Applications Management


Applications Management

You cannot upload the default script in a CCX application from Supervisor Tools

Applications Management

Make sure that the script attached to the application is valid. Supervisor Tools  cannot detect if the script attached is invalid

Applications Management

Being a supervisor while changing the script prompts, the supervisor would only see the prompts of his own workspace. However, if the admin prompt folder while creating this workspace, the supervisor see all prompts

Applications Management

If an admin a workspace, .e. adding/ removing a supervisor to/from a team, the changes will take effect on next login for that supervisor.

Workspace Management

If an admin applications, service DN’s to a workspace, the supervisors) of the workspace see/access any applications and service DN’s. However, if the admin prompts and scripts folders, the supervisor will have default permissions to all prompts and scripts

Workspace Management

If a region is being used with an easy announcement, you cannot delete the region

Calendar Settings

in the name of agent groups, skills, and regions

Calendar Settings

The application is now highly available

Redundancy Support


UCCX failover support

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