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Connecting Power Virtual Agents to a Real Life Person using Omni Channel Engagement
Not all times you will want to provide live chat opportunities for a customer to a real person. Self Service is huge when it comes to serving a customer on their terms, at the time and method that suits them, whilst keeping more specific 1:1 interactions for more...

Conversation States in Omni Channel Engagement
One of the features when I first started reviewing Omni Channel Engagement which I found challenging was to understand the conversation state within the application. I found in some cases I could edit the conversation, then I couldn't and it can be fairly confusing....
An Introduction to Skill Based Routing in Omni Channel Engagement
We have looked at how the Entity Records Channel uses routing and this post will now take it even further and give an introduction on how Skill Based routing works in the Omni Channel Engagement App. Skill Based routing in Omni Channel Engagement provides companies...
See Conversations in Dynamics 365 in other Apps from Omni Channel
We have looked in detail around interactions with staff and customers work within Omni Channel Engagement in previous posts and now lets take a deep dive into how these conversations are represented in the rest of Dynamics 365 on Customer records. Omni Channel...
Omni-Channel Guides
Creating Custom Style Widgets in Omni Channel Engagement
When creating widgets that appear on the front page of a companies website or even within in their customer service section, some considerations need to be made. It is important the widgets reflect the brand guidelines of the organisation and blend in with the...
What is the Entity Channel in Omni Channel Engagement?
Many of the recent posts have been focused on the Chat Channel within the Omni Channel Engagement Hub. You may have been wondering what other channels are available within the application. The channel which has the most confusion is the Entity Channel. What does this...
Sentiment Analysis in Omni Channel Engagement
This post covers a review of the real time sentiment analysis in the Omni Channel Engagement Application When a customer has started a live chat and begins talking, the is real time sentiment analysis enabled by default that gives users the ability to see, based on...
Using Macros in Agent Scripts within Omni Channel Engagement
Agent Scripts promote the use of being able to work through a set of questions or actions and Macro's provide a level of automation which saves users so much time - now we want to look at putting them together to make the user experience helpful and delightful. Ensure...
Getting started with Macros in Omni Channel Engagement
Macro's in Omni Channel Engagement allow for specific levels of automation to take place whilst a user is talking to a customer. The most common places to embed Macro's are on Agent Scripts. This post covers how to get started with Macro's and their capabilities in...
Search on Knowledge Base Articles in Conversations using Omni Channel Engagement
Omni Channel Engagement promotes users to manage workloads and be served queries from multiple channels. An important feature is for users to be able to have access to search knowledge base articles without losing context. This post covers how! When a user accepts a...
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