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Configuring common phrases for agents

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Beginner Pega Customer Service 8.6 English
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Scenario

U+ Bank wants to set up a consistent greeting for customer service agents to initiate Web messaging conversations. The message welcomes the customer and asks how they can be helped.

Use the following credentials to log in to the exercise system:

Role User name Password

Customer Service Administrator

CSAppAdmin

password123!

Customer Service Representative

cacsr

rules

Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Create the common phrase in App Studio and associate it with chat

Create the common phrase in App Studio and associate the message with the chat by using the following information:

Property

Value

Phrase name

Welcome

Phrase category

Greeting

Channel

Chat

Phrase text

Welcome! How can I help you today?

Task 2: Confirm your work

Initiate a web messaging conversation with the CSR to observe the use of the newly created welcome message.

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Before you begin

If you have requested a new Pega instance, make sure to complete the Creating a Digital Messaging interface challenge before you continue to the next task.

2 Create the common phrase in App Studio and associate it with chat

  1. Log in to App Studio with User name CSAppAdmin and Password password123!.
  2. In the navigation pane of App Studio, click Settings > Chat and messaging to create a new common phrase.
    Chat & Messaging
  3. In the list of Chat and messaging settings, click the Common phrases tab to set up the common phrase settings.
  4. On the Common phrases tab, in the Phrases section, click Actions > Add phrase to create a new phrase.
    Add phrase
  5. Use the following table to complete the new phrase.

    Property

    Value

    Phrase name

    Welcome

    Phrase category

    Greeting

    Channel

    Chat

    Phrase text

    Welcome! How can I help you today?

  1. Click Submit to add your phrase.
  2. Click Save.
  3. In the lower right, click the user icon, and then select Log off to log out of App Studio.

3 Make yourself available in the Interaction Portal

 
  1. Log in to Pega Customer Service™ with User name cacsr and Password rules.
  2. In the Interaction Portal, click the Chat icon.
  3. Click Manage queues to make queue selections.
    Manage queues
  4. In Queues, select the following check boxes:
    1. Billing
    2. General
    3. Technical
  5. Click Save to update the queue selection.
  6. Click the Chat icon, and then select Make me available.

Confirm your work

  1. Log in to the U+ Bank site as Sara.
  2. Click the Chat icon to initiate the conversation with the customer.
  3. In the message box, enter Help.
  4. Select any of the three pre-defined topic categories and type in the question: How to get push notifications?
  5. Return to the Interaction Portal, and then click Accept in the Incoming Web messaging conversation pop-up to initiate the customer interaction.
  6. In the Web Messaging window, select Phrases > Greetings > Welcome. You can enter two slashes (//) in the type area to access the Common Phrases list with quick navigation.
  7. Once the common phrase that you created is displayed, click Send.


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