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Calling Groups, Group Membership, Supervisory Monitoring

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86 CHAPTER 6: GETTING MORE FROM YOUR TELEPHONE SYSTEM Calling Groups One type of hunt group is the Calling Group. Calling groups allow an incoming call to ring simultaneously on all telephones in a group, for example, a customer service group. To log in to or out of a calling group, follow the steps in "Hunt Groups" earlier in this chapter. Figure 4 shows the path of a call coming in to a calling group. Figure 4 Sample Calling Group Configuration 6 1 Incoming Telephone Call 2 Telephone #1 3 Telephone #2 4 Telephone #3 5 After a specified number of rings with no answer 6 Receptionist Group Membership To view the list of users that belong to a group: 1 In NBX NetSet > User Information > Hunt Groups, select a group. 2 Click Details. Supervisory Monitoring Supervisory monitoring is typically used in call centers to allow supervisors to join a conversation between an agent and a customer to ensure proper customer support. The supervisor's presence may or may not be announced to the agent or customer by a tone. Supervisory monitoring can be used only with incoming calls to Automatic Call Distribution Groups and Hunt Groups. Other calls to and from the agent's telephone are unavailable to the supervisor. The supervisor must provide a password to access the agent's extension during these calls.

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86
C
HAPTER
6: G
ETTING
M
ORE
FROM
Y
OUR
T
ELEPHONE
S
YSTEM
Calling Groups
One type of hunt group is the
Calling Group
.
Calling groups allow an
incoming call to ring simultaneously on all telephones in a group, for
example, a customer service group. To log in to or out of a calling group,
follow the steps in
“Hunt Groups”
earlier in this chapter.
Figure 4
shows the path of a call coming in to a calling group.
Figure 4
Sample Calling Group Configuration
Group Membership
To view the list of users that belong to a group:
1
In
NBX NetSet > User Information > Hunt Groups
, select a group.
2
Click
Details
.
Supervisory
Monitoring
Supervisory monitoring is typically used in call centers to allow supervisors
to join a conversation between an agent and a customer to ensure proper
customer support. The supervisor’s presence may or may not be
announced to the agent or customer by a tone. Supervisory monitoring
can be used only with incoming calls to Automatic Call Distribution
Groups and Hunt Groups. Other calls to and from the agent’s telephone
are unavailable to the supervisor. The supervisor must provide a password
to access the agent’s extension during these calls.
1
Incoming Telephone Call
2
Telephone #1
3
Telephone #2
4
Telephone #3
5
After a specified number of rings with no answer
6
Receptionist
6