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Dec 12, 2022
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Livechat Channel Integration

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The channel integration implements a standardized live chat handover flow to CM.com's Conversational AI Cloud.

Prerequisites

The live chat handover flow requires the following content to be present in the project culture:

  • Livechat addition, boolean value
  • The prechat event, should trigger a transactional dialog
  • Optional - skill addition, string value
  • Optional - mscWebstore addition, string value
  • Optional - mscChannel addition, string value
  • Optional - agentStatus context variable, values offline/online
  • Conversational Flow

How it works

The live chat handover flow will work as follows:

  • The live chat handover flow is triggered whenever an answer contains the output addition live chat with a value of true.
  • If a skill-based handover is required, make sure to add the output addition skill with the value set to the routing skill together with the live chat output addition.

Conversational AI Cloud will do a presence check to determine if an agent is available:

  • If an agent is present the context variable agentStatus is set to online
  • If the mscWebstore output addition is set, it will save the addition in the conversations state
  • If the mscChannel output addition is set, it will save the addition in the conversations state.
  • If the presence check call should fail, the agentStatus context variable is set to offline
  • Conversational AI Cloud will trigger the prechat event
  • The prechat event is required to trigger a transactional dialog
  • The customer can ask the user any number of questions as part of the livechat intake in order to assist the agent

When the transactional dialog that was started by the prechat event is finished a handover will be done to Mobile Service Cloud:

  • The Routing Keywords (skill-based routing) is set to the value of the skill output addition
  • The Webstore Referrer is set to the value of the mscWebstore output addition
  • If the mscWebstore addition was left empty, URL based routing will be performed based on the URL of the end-user
  • After the handover is complete, the conversation with the end-user will be picked up by an agent in Mobile Service Cloud, and Conversational AI Cloud will no longer receive any interactions for the duration of the end-users session.

A few things to keep in mind when working with channels standardized Mobile Service Cloud integration:

  • Once a conversation has gone through a handover, the end-user can no longer interact with Conversational AI Cloud for the remainder of the end-users session (24 hours of inactivity)
  • If any part of the live chat handover flow fails, the handover will not be triggered, and the end-user will continue the conversation with Conversational AI Cloud.

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