User`s guide

User’s Guide ACD agent operation
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ACD agent operation
(Not available on 12-Key Feature Phone.)
Important: You are being assigned a special feature not explained in the regular station User’s Guide or
tutorial. Be sure to get your ACD department number from the system administrator.
An ACD
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department is made up of agents who, when logged on, can receive calls for that department.
Calls go to the logged-on agent who has been idle for the longest time. If all logged-on agents are busy,
the ESI phone system places the calls in a holding queue and automatically connects the longest-
holding call when an agent becomes available. While holding, callers hear periodic prompts to continue
to hold. As an ACD department agent, you must have one of your phone's programmable feature keys
programmed as an agent log-on/off key
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(see below) for each ACD department to which you are
assigned. This key lets you manually place yourself in or out of service for that department’s calls.
Notes: Even though you may have been assigned to more than one ACD department, you can be logged into
only one department at a time.
Never program any of your programmable feature keys as line keys if system-wide hold has been
enabled (if you’re not sure, consult your system administrator).
If no agents are logged on, incoming calls immediately follow that department’s call-forwarding routing.
Programming the agent log-on/off key
1. Enter Help mode by pressing HELP.
2. Press each programmable feature key to determine the location of the log on/off key (the keys have
been assigned beginning with the lower left hand programmable feature key).
3. To program a new key location (or if one has not previously been programmed):
(a.) Hold down the desired programmable feature key for at least two seconds, to enter
programming mode.
(b.) Dial 5 plus the department number.
(c.) Press the programmable feature key again.
Note: Programming an ACD department key inserts you, as a member, into that department.
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Automatic call distribution.
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This key is automatically assigned when an extension is set up as a member of an ACD department.