Work Flow play prompt before/during agent answer.

Question

I have read a couple of other posts asking about similar requests but wanted some clarifcation.
I want to play a prompt right when the agent answers the call.  A prompt would be something like "Welcome to Company X, how may I direct your call"  Saving the agent from having to say that intro every time.  From what I gather it would be difficult to do this from a scripting standpoint because UCCX froma timing standpoint.  So the solution I think would be to perform a Work Flow action.  Assuming this is the best approach can someone elaborate on how to accomplish this exactly with the Desktop Admin Workflow Action.  I glanced at it but was not sure.
UCCX 7.0.1 SR05 Enhanced.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I thought I would share my solution:
Request/Issue
I had a request for a UCCX 7.0(1) Enhanced solution for an Operator.  The customer needed the ability to answer the call and then automatically play a greeting like “Welcome to Company X, how may I direct your call?”  This is commonly known as “Agent Greeting” and would often times save them from having to say anything. 
Notes:
One solution states that this can be done from the scripting configuration below:
---->Select Resource (*Uncheck Connect)
   ---------->Selected
      ---------------->Play Prompt
      ---------------->Connect
   ---->Queued
However, I find that this doesn’t work well because depending on how fast or slow the operator picks up the caller may hear the agent greeting and then Network MOH while the call is still being transferred or worst case scenario the caller hears the agent welcome greeting but the operator does not pick up and the call is re-queued.
Workaround:
·         Created another script that plays a prompt “Welcome to Company X, how may I direct your call?”, then terminates the script. 
·         Create an application trigger and in this example the DN is 8676.
·         In the desktop administrator created an additional Workflow Group called Operator and place the operator agent in it.
·         Created a voice contact workflow and used an action called BlindConference found under Call Control that can be invoked upon agent answer which conferences in Extension 8676.
A caveat that the customer may or may not be willing to live with is that the caller hears an announcement tone when the conference is initiated and terminated.  If they do not want the caller to hear this tone the Service Parameter below can be disabled.  However, this is a cluster wide setting and will disable the announcement tone on all conference calls.
Service Parameter Description:
Party Entrance Tone: This parameter determines whether a tone will play when a party joins or exits a call with more than two parties. The following features play a tone based on this parameter: Barge, cBarge, Conference, Join, and Meet-Me conference. Only those device types that have a builtin bridge, such as the Cisco IP Phone models 7940, 7960, and newer, can play a tone to all parties. When the controlling device is no longer present in the call or lacks the capability, the tone does not play to all parties even if this parameter is set to True. Valid values specify True (play tone) or False (do not play tone).   This is a required field.   Default:  True