Omnichannel Conversations
Learn how to handle omnichannel conversations.
When you log in to your workspace as an agent and set your status to Available, to handle new conversations:
When you receive an omnichannel message from a customer/visitor, you will be notified by a pop-up sound, and the message is displayed under the "Queued Chat" section.
You can preview the content of a conversation by clicking on it. When you're ready to handle the conversation, click Take it, and it is moved to the "Chats in Progress" section.
Click on a conversation to reply to an omnichannel contact.
If a message is sent to a department you don't belong to, you won't receive it.
Omnichannel Conversation Quick Actions
In an Omnichannel conversation, quick actions can be performed from the top of the chat screen. They are shown as icons on the top right.
Move back to the Queue
If an omnichannel conversation needs to be handled by another agent within your department,
Click Move to the queue.
The conversation starts to appear in the Queued Chats for other agents to see.
Forward a conversation
To forward a conversation:
Enter the department or the Agent to whom the conversation should be forwarded.
Leave a comment if necessary and click Forward.
A notification appears briefly at the top to indicate if the operation succeeded or failed.
Conversation transcript
Following an Omnichannel conversation, forwarding the transcript to the contact you were serving as an agent may be necessary.
To send the transcript via email,
Click Send via email
Enter their Email
Enter the Subject
Hit Request.
Enter comments if any
Update Tags for this conversation
Select Export chat transcript as PDF
You receive a new direct message from Rocket.Cat with the conversation attached in PDF form.
Exporting as PDF becomes available only after you Close the omnichannel conversation. It is not possible to export an incomplete conversation.
To export the transcript of a previously closed conversation,
Click Export as PDF
The transcript appears within the conversation as a message from Rocket.Cat.
You need Request PDF Transcript permission assigned to your role. To assign permission, navigate to the home screen Kebab menu > Workspace > Permissions, assign Request PDF Transcript to your role, or contact your workspace administrator.
To enable Export Conversation Transcript automatically for every chat,
Click your avatar and select My account.
Navigate to Omnichannel and enable the transcript option you want to automate.
Export chat transcript as PDF: Always export the transcript as PDF at the end of conversations.
Send chat transcript via email: Always send the transcript to contacts at the end of the conversations.
Click Save Changes.
During supporting conversation as an agent, you can find yourself in a situation where Omnichannel contacts terminate the conversation abruptly. Still, the conversation will persist in your queue until it is Closed. This can potentially impact your service capacity as you may be unable to engage in new conversations due to the maximum number of simultaneous conversations allowed per agent. To address this concern, you can pause the conversation temporarily by using the Place Chat On-Hold feature.
To place a conversation on hold,
Click Place Chat On-Hold
If the Omnichannel contact engages again, the routing algorithm will try to find you first to assign this conversation. If you are busy serving other conversations at maximum capacity, the conversation will be assigned to the next available agent.
You can also click the conversation in the queue anytime and click Resume to engage with the same contact again.
You can manually place the conversation on hold only when you send the last message to the contact.
Close a conversation
To end a conversation:
Enter comments if any
Update Tags for this conversation
Select Export chat transcript as PDF in case you need it exported.
Select Send chat transcript via email if you want it sent to the guest's email.
Click Confirm, and the conversation disappears from the Chats in Progress queue.
The PDF conversation transcript is sent to you as a direct message if you request that the chat be exported.
Call
Communication with omnichannel contacts on Rocket.Chat can also be done using audio/video calls. Your workspace must have at least one call app installed to make these calls.
To enable Rocket.Chat video call feature, please get in touch with your administrator or follow the instructions.
To make a call,
Click Join Call button in the conversation.
Enter your name in the new browser window and hit Join meeting
Room information
The details revealed include the date and time, average response time, queue time, the contact name, and your username.
Click Edit to add some further information. E.g., the topic discussed or priority
Hit Save.
Canned responses allow you to call pre-saved message snippets with shortcuts (preceded with !) to communicate a quick note to your omnichannel contact in omnichannel as well as regular conversations inside your Rocket.Chat's workspace.
To send a canned response,
Start your message with
!and the canned response shortcut, or you can select the canned response from the drop-down list that will appear above your text fieldYou can also use the same canned responses when talking to your peers outside Omnichannel
To access all available canned responses for your department or all public canned responses on your workspace,
Hover your cursor over the canned response you want to use in your current conversation
Hit Use.
Create a canned response from a room as an agent
You can create a canned response during an omnichannel conversation if you have appropriate permissions.
See #create-canned-response-from-within-chatroom and contact your workspace administrator to assign you the required permission.
Contact information
To get the contact details of the currently selected omnichannel conversation's contact,
While viewing contact information, click Edit to edit the contact details or click Chat History to see the chat history.
Search chats
To search for messages in a conversation,
Enter your search query.
The search result is displayed as you type. You can also use Regular Expressions. For example, to search for the word
errorfollowed by any three digits, useerror\d{3}.
Search for file attachments
To search for files that have been attached to the conversation,
All files that have been attached are displayed.
Enter the search query.
Optionally, choose the file type you are interested in. By default, all the file types are displayed.
View contact chat history
To get the chat history of the contact:
The contact is displayed alongside the last closing message which you sent.
Enter a search query in the search box. The results are displayed as you type.
Invite users to a chat
Invite other livechat agents or managers to an ongoing chat. This is useful when you require additional help or need to work together with a visitor. To invite:
In a chat, send the slash command
/invite @<username>.If the user is not an agent, a manager, or a user with permission to join a chat, the message User is not an Omnichannel Agent is displayed. Otherwise, the user is added to the chat.
In the backend, the Join Livechat Room is called to invite users to a livechat room.
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