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Feb 24, 2021
Flex UI 1.25 and Webchat UI 2.8 are now available, with improvements to Flex UI troubleshooting experience and a Debugger UI now in Pilot
This release of Flex UI introduces an improved troubleshooting experience for Flex UI users. Troubleshooting and fixing any issues starts with understanding their cause and getting additional context about the issues. Users of Flex UI will now be able to get error notifications via a Debugger UI and will be able to download a report with full error descriptions and logs.
Feb 18, 2021
Flex Insights Historical Reporting: Additional Custom Data Fields
Flex Insights provides additional custom data fields for Conversations, Customers, and Agents data sets. You can now attach more data related to your specific business needs to conversations, customers and agents - which you can then use for segmentation, aggregations, and filtering in Historical Reporting.
To learn how you can set custom data fields programmatically, see Enhance your Flex Insights Integration.
Feb 18, 2021
Flex Plugins CLI now enables and disables plugins in a single step
The Flex Plugins CLI has been updated to automate one of the most common operations, enabling or disabling a single plugin. Developers can now provide the disable-plugin and enable-plugin arguments in the release and create-configuration commands. This simplifies the release process for developers managing multiple plugins. They no longer need to gather and update configurations for every active plugin. Refer to our CLI documentation for more details on these commands.
Other notable changes:
- Flex plugins no longer need to start with “plugin-”.
Feb 18, 2021
Agent workload reporting in Flex Insights
Flex Insights now supports detailed intraday reporting of agent workload. Workload reporting enables supervisors and data analysts to see which conversations the agents spent their time working on during the day with 15 minute interval granularity. Workload reporting is especially powerful in contact centers with long conversations that can be leveraged by Workforce Management applications to predict load and monitor schedule adherence. The time spent working on conversations can be filtered and segmented by direction, queue, agents, and all the other attributes available in Flex Insights.
Flex Insights now also reports on how many conversations agents worked in parallel at a specific moment. This gives visibility into how efficiently their time is used in multi-tasking environments. You can also report how much time agents spend idle - handling no conversation during their working hours.
For more information see workload reporting documentation.
Feb 08, 2021
All Flex projects that use Automatic Updates upgraded to Flex UI 1.24
We have updated all Flex projects that use Automatic Updates to Flex UI 1.24.
This release of Flex UI and WebChat UI introduces new syntax options for Chat Markdown including support for new elements (headings, ordered lists, code snippets, block quotes). To learn more about Markdown, visit our Flex docs. Markdown is currently in Beta and can be enabled for your account on the Pre-Release Features Page.
For a full changelog, visit the release notes for our client libraries:
Reminder: You can pin to individual versions of the Flex UI or manage your Automatic Updates within the Flex Admin UI.
Jan 28, 2021
Puzzel WFM Integration is validated for Flex
Twilio has completed validation of the integration between Flex and Puzzel WFM. The following features have been verified and are available for customers of Flex and Puzzel:
- Workforce Management
- Historical data for forecasting
- Agent schedule creation
- Real-time adherence
To learn more about Puzzel’s WFM capabilities and how to enable it for your application, visit our integration documentation.
Dec 10, 2020
Admins can now view legacy plugins on Plugins Dashboard
The Plugins Dashboard now displays all legacy plugins currently enabled for your agents. With this feature, the Plugins Dashboard is the source of truth for all plugin information in Flex. This makes it easier for admins to track the migration of their legacy plugins to the latest Plugins API. Admins can access the Plugins Dashboard via the Admin UI.
Dec 09, 2020
Flex UI 1.24 and Webchat UI 2.7 are now available, with improvements to Chat Markdown.
This release of Flex UI and WebChat UI introduces new syntax options for Chat Markdown and overall improvements in stability of this feature including several bug fixes. To learn more about Markdown, visit our Flex docs. Markdown is currently in Beta and can be enabled for your account using a Pre-release feature flag.
For more details on this release, please visit the release notes for Flex UI and WebChat UI.
Dec 04, 2020
Glance cobrowsing and screen sharing is validated for Flex
Twilio has completed validation of the integration between Flex and Glance. The following features have been verified and are available for customers of Flex and Glance:
- Co-browse directly from within Twilio Flex
- Data obfuscation (credit card, SSN, etc.)
- 1-click connect for your website visitors
- Out-of-the-box integration with Twilio Web Chat
- One-way agent video
To learn more about Glance’s capabilities and how to enable it for your application, visit our integration documentation.
Dec 03, 2020
Acqueon Engagement is validated for Flex
Twilio has completed validation of the integration between Flex and Acqueon Engagement. The following features have been verified and are available for customers of Flex and Acqueon:
- Outbound Dialer with predictive, progressive, preview, and agentless dialing modes
- Contact Management and Segmentation - de-duplicate and scrub contacts to build the right campaign list
- Compliance Support - Do Not Call (DNC) numbers filtering and segmentation of contacts based on Prior Express Written Consent (PEWC). These tools let you conform with privacy regulations including TCPA, GDPR, CCPA, and Ofcom.
- Answering Machine Detection
- Campaign Optimization - contact selection strategies can leverage AI-predictions including Best Time To Call (BTTC), best channel to use, and propensity models
- Agent Blending - allows agents to seamlessly transition between inbound and outbound dialing
To learn more about Acqueon’s capabilities and how to enable it for your application, visit our integration documentation.
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