Lab 4 – Flow Pre-Work

In this lab, you will learn how to create Queues and Business Hours.

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Instructions:

1. Contact Center-> Customer Experience -> Business Hours

Use Case: Agents should only be reached through queues during set hours

Define Business Hours

  • Overrides

    • Name: Emergencies

    • Time zone: America/New York

    • Add new override

      • Name: Emergency

      • Date range: Today’s date - 12/25/2025

      • Do NOT enable

  • Holiday Lists

    • Name: Holidays

    • Holiday Number 1: Xmas

      • 12/25/2025 – 12/25/2025

    • Holiday Number 2: Birthday

      • Your 2026 birthday date (Hint – type the date in)

      • Reminder: If a setting is not listed in the task instructions, leave default settings or skip

  • Working Hours

    • Name: Work Week

    • Time zone: America/New York

    • Add Shift

      • Name: Day

      • Mon – Fri: 9am - 5pm

    • Holiday List: Holidays

    • Overrides: Emergencies

    • Help Page
2. Contact Center-> Customer Experience -> Queues

Use Case: Separate queues are needed for Support and Sales to ensure customer inquiries are routed to the appropriate team.

Create two queues

Queue Name: Support Q

  • Contact Routing Settings

    • Skills-based routing: Enable

    • Skill assignment type: Assign skills in flows

    • Routing Pattern: Best Available Agent

    • Call Distribution: Create Group

      • Priority 1: Company and Overseas teams

  • Advanced settings

    • Service Monitoring: Enable

    • Allow pause/resume for calls: Enable

    • Service Level Threshold: 120

    • Max time in Queue: 3600

    • Music In Queue: defaultmusic_on_hold_cisco_opus

    • Help Page

Queue Name: Sales Q

  • Contact Routing Settings

    • Agent Assignment: Teams

    • Call Distribution: Create Group

    • Priority 1: Sales team

  • Advanced settings

    • Service Monitoring: Enable

    • Allow pause/resume for calls: Enable

    • Service Level Threshold: 120

    • Max time in Queue: 3600

    • Music In Queue: defaultmusic_on_hold_cisco_opus

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