Create deflection configurations and patterns

Set up deflection settings to create deflection configurations and deflection patterns that you can map to deflection topic blocks in Virtual Agent conversation topics. These deflections help you to track the issues that Virtual Agent helped to resolve or actually resolved for a user.

Before you begin

Review Tracking deflections in Virtual Agent using the deflection topic block.

Watch this video for more information about deflection tracking. Virtual Agent Academy: Measure success and user journey in Conversational Analytics

Note:

For information about configuring components of the Virtual Agent Analytics dashboard (such as Performance Analytics widgets), see Add and configure components.

Role required: virtual_agent_admin or admin

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Conversational Interfaces > Settings.
   The Conversational Interfaces Settings page opens in a new tab.
2. Navigate to Virtual Agent > Deflection metrics > View all.
3. To enable tracking of deflection metrics, turn on the toggle under Activate.
4. To create new Deflection Configurations, click New.
5. In the Create Deflection Configuration form, enter these deflection configuration properties:

   Field	Description
   Name	Short and meaningful name for the deflection configuration.
   Description	Short description about the deflection configuration.

6. Click Save.
   A new Deflection Configuration is created.
7. To add new deflection patterns to a deflection configuration, select the deflection configuration in which you want to add the deflection pattern.
8. Click New.

   In the Create Deflection Pattern form, enter these deflection pattern properties:

   Field	Description
   Name	Short and meaningful name for the deflection pattern.
   Outcome	Result of the deflection in a Virtual Agent conversation.
   Primary Activity Table	Table that is associated with the activity that you are categorizing in the deflection pattern. For example, if the Virtual Agent is helping to prevent the creation of a task for the activity, then you can specify the task table.

   Note:

   If you are creating a generic pattern that is used for tracking different deflections, you can leave the Primary Activity Table field empty.

   The primary activity table that is associated with each activity helps in calculating the deflection rate for a particular business area. For example, if Virtual Agent resolves 42 VPN issues and overall 100 VPN incidents are created, the deflection rate for VPN issues is 42/142 or 30 percent.

9. Click Save.