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anonymous
Apr 10, 2021Copper Contributor
Teams Queue Announce Position and Estimated Hold Time
We desperately need more advanced configuration with call queues in Teams. We need to have periodic announcements of the current position, and optionally an estimated hold time. The user that an...
godril_
Mar 10, 2022Brass Contributor
Same here,
Trying to migrate a tenant from previous IP PBX to MSTEams, and found out the Queue cant insert a simple periodic message that telling the caller basically like "Thank you, agent is till busy, you can continue to wait or hangup to end the call" .
I also tried to stack view call queues to mimic that behaviour, but user experience for the caller is clunky.
Wonder if there is another workaround.
Trying to migrate a tenant from previous IP PBX to MSTEams, and found out the Queue cant insert a simple periodic message that telling the caller basically like "Thank you, agent is till busy, you can continue to wait or hangup to end the call" .
I also tried to stack view call queues to mimic that behaviour, but user experience for the caller is clunky.
Wonder if there is another workaround.
- Tom_McGMay 23, 2022Copper Contributor
Did you ever find a work around for your on hold messaging? I'm trying to do the same functionality and am having a hard time figuring out how to insert announcements at various intervals when a call is waiting for an available agent.
- godril_Jun 16, 2022Brass Contributor
Hi Tom_McG
No, I couldnt find one. The tenant ended up using what Microsoft provides (without interleaving messages).
- Tom_McGSep 15, 2022Copper ContributorI wound up splicing MOH and multiple messages into a single wav file for a custom MOH experience within my call queues. Had to figure out how to do that first;) Clunky way to build an ACD, MSFT can definitely improve that functionality.