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  1. Update 21B
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
    1. Agent Console
        1. Agent Browser Action Center
        2. Intra Chat: Agent Browser UI Inlay for Employee to Employee Collaboration
        3. Redwood Theme
        4. Workspace Rules for Agent Insights
    2. Analytics
        1. Service Usage Metrics: Sessions by Interface
    3. Channels
        1. Chat in Browser UI: Asynchronous Chat
    4. Contact Center
        1. Text Input Support for Routing Guidance
        2. Extension Manager
    5. Intelligent Advisor
        1. Authorization Headers on Interview Extension Data Connection Requests
        2. Enhanced Configurability Using Interview Extensions
        3. Enhanced Intelligent Advisor Integration with Oracle Digital Assistant
        4. Share Rates and Rules Across Projects Via Independent Decision Services
    6. Knowledge Management
        1. Answer Version Forward
        2. Preview Articles as Shown in Customer Portal Directly from Authoring
        3. Set Related Answer Types in Widgets and Set Notification Frequency in Customer Portal
    7. Platform
        1. Enhanced Business Rules: Support for Accounts and Assets
    8. Workspaces
        1. Incident Thread Orientation Options
        2. Inside Labels for Browser UI Workspaces
        3. Workspace Rules: Request Insights
        4. Workspace Rules: Show Intelligent Advisor Interview

Update 21B

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Product Feature Notes
07 JUN 2021 Intelligent Advisor Enhanced Configurability Using Interview Extensions Updated document. Delivered feature in update 21B.
07 JUN 2021 Intelligent Advisor Share Rates and Rules Across Projects Via Independent Decision Services Updated document. Delivered feature in update 21B.
21 MAY 2021    

Created initial document.

Overview

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.

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Agent Console

Agent Browser Action Center

The Agent Action Center is now displayed for users upon login.  Panels are displayed for Recent Items, Quick Create, Notifications and Open tabs.

Intra Chat: Agent Browser UI Inlay for Employee to Employee Collaboration

Intra Chat is an inlay that is embedded in the Agent Browser UI and used for employee to employee collaboration. 

Redwood Theme

A 'Redwood' theme is available to users in the preferences menu.

Workspace Rules for Agent Insights

Workspace Rules can be configured to conditionally display Agent Insights.

Analytics

Service Usage Metrics: Sessions by Interface

A new filter is available to allow viewing usage of Session data by Interface in Service Usage Metrics.

Channels

Chat in Browser UI: Asynchronous Chat

A new feature has been added for agents handling Oracle Messaging chats within the Browser UI, allowing them to easily send responses to customers, at any time, by re-engaging in the conversation from within the incident workspace.

Contact Center

Text Input Support for Routing Guidance

Oracle Messaging can now support answers to routing questions provided by end users through text input. This enhances the Routing Question feature by providing the ability to accept free form text input in addition to pre-configured answer options, and is available to all configured messaging channels supported by Oracle Messaging.

Extension Manager

Extension Manager enables Admins and BUI extension developers to manage all aspects of an extension deployed on the site.

Intelligent Advisor

Authorization Headers on Interview Extension Data Connection Requests

System integrators can now set Authorization headers on interview extension data connection requests, so that an existing user token known in the client can be passed through to a back-end API. (This feature is available in 21A monthly update 2.)

Enhanced Configurability Using Interview Extensions

Intelligent Advisor’s existing suite of interview extensions has been further extended to include progressive reveal of questions and custom event handling.

Enhanced Intelligent Advisor Integration with Oracle Digital Assistant

The System.IntelligentAdvisor component in Digital Assistant has numerous enhancements. (This feature is available in 21A monthly update 2.)

Share Rates and Rules Across Projects Via Independent Decision Services

References to Intelligent Advisor decision services can now be added from any Policy Modeling project to calculate certain data values. The decision service is called both when debugging and after the project is deployed.

Knowledge Management

Answer Version Forward

Answer Version Forward lets authors to forward a specific answer version as an email, rather than forwarding the answer itself. This lets authors send an answer version for reviews by legal, marketing, etc. before publishing the version.

Preview Articles as Shown in Customer Portal Directly from Authoring

Authors can preview an article directly from the authoring application. Styles and formatting in customer portal sites differ from those that authors see when creating and editing articles. Additionally, different interfaces can use different sets of styles and formats. The article preview shows how the article will display in the customer portal for the interface they have selected. They can preview an article in any of the interfaces that it is associated to.

Set Related Answer Types in Widgets and Set Notification Frequency in Customer Portal

Administrators can configure the types of related answers that will display in knowledge widgets in Customer Portal. You can choose to display either or both types of related answers:

  • Manual links are links to answers that were added by authors.
  • Learned links are generated by machine learning based on the users’ browsing behavior.

The default setting displays both types of links.

Customer Portal end users can choose how often they will be notified about changes to articles that they have subscribed to.

Platform

Enhanced Business Rules: Support for Accounts and Assets

You can now create business rules on Accounts and Assets object with Enhanced Business Rules User framework in the Agent Browser UI.

Workspaces

Incident Thread Orientation Options

A thread orientation option is available under the ellipsis menu in the thread editor to toggle between 'left' and 'top' positions for draft thread entries. 

Inside Labels for Browser UI Workspaces

Agent Browser UI workspaces support inside label positions.

Workspace Rules: Request Insights

Workspace Rules can be configured to get Insights which display in the Agent Insights side panel on the Agent Browser UI.

Workspace Rules: Show Intelligent Advisor Interview

Workspace Rules can be configured to show Intelligent Advisor Interviews on the Agent Browser UI.