CSM voice interaction record page
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Summary of CSM Voice Interaction Record Page
The CSM voice interaction record page in ServiceNow’s Yokohama release provides a specialized interface within the CSM Configurable Workspace that enables agents to efficiently manage customer phone calls through integrations with Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers. This page supports native voice call handling and interaction management directly from the agent inbox, streamlining communication and issue resolution.
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Key Features
- Integration with CCaaS Providers: The Interaction Controls Component (ICC) allows CCaaS providers to embed native voice call controls for accepting calls, managing transfers and conferences, and placing calls on hold or mute.
- Page Structure: The solution consists of two pages—the CSM voice interaction record page and the Interaction control page—displayed together when OpenFrame configuration is enabled.
- Customer History Component: Displays relevant customer, consumer, or account history, helping agents understand past interactions and context. It can also show live call transcripts if configured.
- Action Bar: Provides quick access to common actions such as creating incidents or cases, saving records, and starting discussions, tailored to agent roles and permissions.
- Contextual Side Panel: Offers tools including related lists (like related tasks and open cases), attachments, and form templates that aid agents in researching and resolving issues.
- Customizable Templates and Variants: The voice interaction record page template enables creation and customization of variants to support different CCaaS providers and add real-time updates and notifications.
- OpenFrame Configuration: Enables interaction controls and restricts visibility based on user groups, ensuring the right agents have access to voice interaction capabilities.
Practical Use and Configuration
Agents can manage phone interactions seamlessly within the ServiceNow workspace when the following conditions are met: the interaction record type is phone, interaction controls are enabled in OpenFrame configuration, and the agent belongs to the specified user group.
Administrators should ensure:
- Installation of the Interaction Controls Component plugin and its dependencies.
- OpenFrame configuration is set up with enabled interaction controls and appropriate user groups assigned.
- Optional configuration of live call transcription through the Customer History component.
- Action bar customization to include additional plugin actions as needed.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Enables agents to handle voice calls natively within the CSM workspace, improving efficiency and reducing context switching.
- Provides real-time access to customer history and interaction context, supporting faster and more informed customer service.
- Supports customizable page variants and components, allowing tailoring of the voice interaction experience to specific CCaaS integrations and organizational needs.
- Facilitates streamlined communication workflows with integrated call control features and related case management actions.
The CSM voice interaction record page provides a component that customers can use for integration with Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers and an interface that agents can use to handle customer phone calls.
- Accept calls directly from the agent inbox.
- Manage call transfers and conferences.
- Place calls on hold and on mute.
Page structure
- CSM voice interaction record page
- Interaction control page
The pages appear together and are visible to agents for phone interactions when the OpenFrame configuration is enabled.
- Interaction Controls Component (ICC): Enables CCaaS providers to display native voice integrations.
- Customer History component: Displays customer, consumer, or account history information, depending on the customer information provided on the interaction record.
- Live call transcript: Displays the text of the call transcript when a conversation record is present for the interaction.Note:Live call transcript requires additional configuration.
- Interaction form
- Action bar
- contextual side panel component
Plugin
The CSM voice interaction record page template and page variant are included with the CSM Configurable Workspace application (com.snc.uib.csm_agent_workspace).
The CSM voice interaction record page template and page variant are available to users when the Interaction Controls Component plugin (com.app_interaction_control) is installed.
- com.app_openframe_store
- com.sn_component_workspace_openframe
CSM voice interaction record template
The CSM voice interaction record template enables customers to create voice interaction record page variants and customize them as needed. This template includes customizable views for different CCaaS providers as well as real-time updates and notifications.
Record pages and page variants created with this template enable agents to manage phone calls with customers and external users and to display information that helps agents to resolve issues. Use this template to customize and extend CSM functionality around phone interaction management. Additionally, you can configure a CCaaS provider to integrate features such as call transcript.
CSM voice interaction record page variant
The CSM voice interaction record page variant is included with the CSM Configurable Workspace plugin and has a dependency on the Interaction Controls Component plugin. This page variant is available for users with the interaction controls enabled. For more information, see OpenFrame configuration.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Active | Enabling the Active check box makes the page variant available to the selected audience. The CSM voice interaction record page variant is inactive by default. The active setting combined with the page order determines the page that CSM Configurable Workspace uses to display record information. For more information, see Set record page order. |
| Order | Each record page has an order which indicates the page priority. The lower the number, the higher the priority. The default order for the CSM voice interaction record page variant is -2000. |
| Conditions | Conditions determine when a page variant is displayed. The CSM voice interaction record page variant has the following conditions:
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| Audience | The audience determines who can see the page variant. The CSM voice interaction record page does not have a defined audience. For more information, see Learn about audiences. |
- Navigate to .
- Select the CSM/FSM Configurable Workspace experience.
- In the Record section of the Pages and variants list, select CSM voice interaction record page.
- Select Settings at the top of the page.
CSM voice interaction record page components
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Form heading | The form heading displays the interaction short description and also includes the action bar and record tags. |
| Record tags | Agents can create multiple tags for a record and then use the tags to group and organize records. For more information, see Group and find records using tags in workspace. |
| Action bar | The action bar contains the actions available to users while working on phone interaction records.
Note: The specific actions available are determined by factors such as the user role and other attributes. |
| Interaction Controls Component (ICC) | The Interaction Controls Component enables CCaaS providers to display native voice integrations. Agents can then use the component to manage customer calls directly from their inbox. For more information, see OpenFrame configuration. |
| Customer History component | The Customer History component displays customer, consumer, or account history information, depending on the field selections on the interaction record. This component can also display live call
transcript. Note: Live call transcript requires additional configuration. |
| Interaction details | The interaction details include information about the interaction including the account and contact, short description, and record state. |
| Contextual side panel component | The contextual side panel component includes different tools that agents can use to research and resolve customer issues. The contextual side panel in the CSM voice interaction record page includes the
following tabs.
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Interaction Controls Component (ICC)
The Interaction Controls Component appears at the top of the left panel of the CSM voice interaction record page. This component enables CCaaS providers to display native voice integrations. Agents can then use the component to manage customer calls directly from their inbox.
- The interaction is of type phone.
- The Enable interaction controls field on the OpenFrame Configuration record is enabled.
- The agent belongs to the User Group selected on the OpenFrame Configuration record.
- If a user group is selected on the configuration record, only agents belonging to that group can see the CSM voice interaction record page.
- If no group is selected, all agents can see the CSM voice interaction record page.
Customer History component
The Customer History component appears below the Interaction Controls Component in the left panel. This component is included with the Customer Central plugin, which is activated as part of the CSM Configurable Workspace application.
The Customer History component includes the Customer tab. This tab displays customer, consumer, or account history information, depending on the customer information provided on the interaction record. This tab also includes a search field, filter, and date range selector that agents can use to find specific information in the history.
| Interaction record information | Customer tab information |
|---|---|
| Customer information is provided | When a customer is selected on the interaction record and customer history is available, the customer history is displayed in the Customer History tab. If customer history is not available, the Customer History tab displays a message that there is no activity yet. |
| Customer information is not provided | When a customer is not selected on the interaction record, the Customer History tab displays a message suggesting to link to a customer. |
| Account information is provided | When an account is selected on the interaction record, the account history is displayed in the Customer History tab. |
- When an agent selects a different customer on the interaction record and then saves the record, the agent needs to select Refresh on the Customer History component to update the information. The agent can also refresh the record page.
- If there is new activity while the page is open, the agent needs to refresh the Customer History component or the record page to display the new activity in the Customer HIstory tab. For example, if the agent selects Create Case on the interaction record.
Live call transcript
- This tab displays the text of the call transcript when a conversation record is present for the interaction.
- This tab displays the following text when a conversation record is not present for the interaction record: Call transcript not available yet.
The Call transcript tab is visible to users if configured in the provider application associated with the interaction.
Action bar component
- Discuss: Open a pop-up window to start a Sidebar discussion.
- Create Incident: Create an incident record related to the interaction record.
- Create Case: Create a case record related to the interaction record.
- Save: Save changes to the interaction record.
- More Actions: Perform additional actions such as creating a request or associating a related record.
- Customer Service (com.sn_customerservice)
- CSM/FSM Configurable WS Foundation (com.snc.uib.cwf_workspace)
- CSM Configurable Workspace (com.snc.uib.csm_agent_workspace)
- CSM Workspace (com.snc.agent_workspace.csm)
- Major Issue Management (com.sn_majorissue_mgt)
- Customer Service with Service Management (com.sn_cs_sm)
- Customer Service with Request Management (com.sn_cs_sm_request)
- Time Recording for Customer Service (com.snc.csm_time_recording)
- Omni-Experience Standard Feature Set
If you are using any additional plugins, you need to add the actions from those plugins to the CSM voice interaction record page action bar. For more information, see the configuration steps in this topic: Configure the Front-line case page action bar.
Contextual side panel component
The CSM voice interaction record page includes the contextual side panel component, which provides agents with the following functionality.
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Related Lists | The Related Lists tab provides access the interaction related lists. The CSM voice interaction record page incorporates related list functionality into the contextual side panel. These lists appear in an accordion format that agents can expand and collapse as needed. An indicator displays the number of records available in a related list. When expanded, the records in a related list are displayed in card format. The CSM voice interaction record page includes the following related lists:
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| Attachments | The Attachments tab provides access to case-related attachments. From this tab, agents can view and download attachments. |
| Templates | The Templates tab provides access to available form templates which enable agents to automatically populate fields on new records. Agents can manually apply a template when creating a new record such as an incident or change. |
OpenFrame configuration
- The Interaction Controls Component plugin (com.app_interaction_control) is installed.
- Interaction controls in the OpenFrame configuration are enabled.
- Navigate to .
- Select a configuration record. For example, select CTI.
- Select the Enable interaction controls check box to enable interaction controls for OpenFrame.
- Select a group from the available User Group column and move it to the Selected column. This is the group of users to whom the OpenFrame configuration applies.
- Unlock the URL field, and add a third-party URL.
You can get this URL from your contact center provider admin.
- Select Update.
- The interaction is of type phone.
- The Enable interaction controls field on the OpenFrame Configuration record is enabled.
- The agent belongs to the User Group selected on the OpenFrame Configuration record.
The agent can switch between phone interactions and chat interactions. If an interaction is of type chat, the agent sees the CSM default record page.