July 08, 2025 | 3174 view(s) | 0 people thought this was helpful
Was this article helpful?
Thanks for your feedback.
In this article
Desktop profiles
Create a desktop profile
Edit a desktop profile
Activate or deactivate a desktop profile
Delete a desktop profile
Manage desktop profiles
In this article
Feedback?
A desktop profile is a group of permissions and desktop behaviors that you assign to specific agents. Sections of this article help you to manage desktop settings for Contact Center.
Desktop profiles
Each desktop profile specifies following permissions and settings:
From the Contact Center navigation pane, select Desktop experience > Desktop profiles.
4
Click Create desktop profile.
5
Enter details in the following fields of the General settings section:
Field
Description
Name
Enter a name for the desktop profile. You can create a desktop profile from a copy of another agent profile. When you copy a profile, the system renames the copy. The copy name consists of the name of the profile from which the copy is made and the words copy_of appended as a prefix. You can retain the name the system assigned to the file or rename it.
Description
Enter a description for the desktop profile.
Parent Type
Choose a parent type:
Tenant: The desktop profile is available to all sites at your enterprise.
Site: The desktop profile is available to a specific site.
You can't change the parent type after you have created a desktop profile.
Screen Popups
Toggle On or Off to specify whether you want to allow external pop-up screens.
Last Agent Routing
Toggle On or Off to specify whether you want to keep the last routing.
6
Click Next to create Idle/wrap-up Codes and enter details in the following fields:
Field
Description
Wrap-up codes
Manual
Auto
Agent available
(Optional) Enter a description for the desktop profile.
Wrap-up codes
All
Specific
Idle codes
All
Specific
7
Click Next to create Collaboration and enter details in the following fields:
Setting
Description
Entry Point/Queue Transfer Targets
Specify the entry points or queues that the agents can choose from the Queue drop-down list on the Agent Desktop:
Select All to make all entry points and queues available.
Select None if you don’t want to make any entry points or queues available as transfer targets.
Select Specific to make specific entry points and queues available; then choose entry points and queues from the drop-down list.
Consult To Queue
Toggle Consult to queue if you want the agent to be able to select a queue in the Queue drop-down list as a target for a consultation. The target must be an inbound queue.
If the agent selects an entry point as the target, the system disables the Consult button.
The system supports Consult to Queue only for queues that have teams serving them. If the agent attempts to consult to a queue that only redirects to another entry point or queue, the system displays a Consult Failed message.
Buddy Teams
Specify the teams that the agents can choose from the Agent drop-down list on the Agent Desktop.
Agents can consult, conference, and transfer calls to other agents from the teams that they choose.
Select All to make the agents on all teams available.
Select None if you don’t want to make any teams available for consultation, conference, or call transfer.
Select Specific to make agents on specific teams available; then select teams from the drop-down list.
Microsoft Teams/Webex App
Toggle ON the Display user details setting in Microsoft Teams to enable the agents to view the presence of the subject matter experts and search by name, department, and role of the users from Microsoft Teams when initiating consult or transfer of calls.
Toggle ON the Display user details setting in Webex App to enable the agents to view the presence of the subject matter experts and search by name of the users from Webex App when initiating consult or transfer of calls.
Toggle ON the State synchronisation setting in Microsoft Teams/Webex App to synchronize the states between the Microsoft Teams/Webex App and Desktop.
You must toggle ON Microsoft Teams/Webex App at the tenant level to ensure State synchronization and Display user details for Desktop Profiles work correctly.
8
Click Next to set up dial plan in the Outdial Options field, and enter details in the following fields:
Field
Description
Outdial enabled
Toggle Outdial to enable if you want the agent to be able to make outdial calls. After you have enabled the outdial, you’ll have to select an outdial entry point.
Outdial Entry Points
If you toggle Outdial to be enabled, choose an entry point that the agent can use to make outdial calls from the drop-down list in the Outdial Entry Point field.
Address book
Choose an address book from the drop-down list in the Address Book field. An address book includes the speed-dial numbers that the agent can choose from to make outdial and consult calls.
Outdial ANI
This setting appears only if you have toggled Outdial to enable. From the drop-down list in the Outdial ANI field, choose the name associated with the list of phone numbers that the agent can use to make an outdial call. The system uses the number that the agent uses as the caller ID for the call. For more information, see manage Outdial ANI.
Dial Plan enabled
If you toggle Dial plan to enable, the agent can make ad hoc outdial calls.
Select Dial Plan
This setting appears only if you toggled Dial Plan to enable. Choose one or more dial plans for the system to use to validate the Dial Numbers (DN) that the agent enters in the Enter number to call field.
Two default dial plans are available. You can also create custom dial plans for your enterprise. The default dial plans are:
Click Next to set up Voice channel options and select the following options accordingly:
Field
Description
Voice Channel options
Agent DN: Allows agents to sign in using a DN.
Extension: Allows agents to sign in through a specific extension number.
Desktop: Allows agents to sign in through a browser.
Desktop option uses webRTC and is available for both Premium and Standard Agents and doesn't require any extra license. It can be used by both agents and supervisors.
The Desktop option is supported on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
The administrator needs to enable the End button in the Control hub for the agent to end a Desktop call.
Validation for Agent DN
Click Unrestricted to allow agents to use any DN to sign in through the Station Credentials prompt on the Agent Desktop.
If an agent enters an ad hoc DN and the entry doesn’t meet the sign-in syntax rules, the system rejects the agent sign-in.
To restrict the DN that the agent can enter, click one of the following:
Provisioned DN restricts the sign-in DN to the default value you provision for the agent.
Note: To provision or change an agent's default DN, edit the agent's user settings. Choose Provisioning > User > Edit > Agent Settings and enter a DN in the Default DN field. If you don’t provision a DN, the agent can enter any DN to sign in.
Validation using Dial Plans restricts the sign-in DN to the all or specific dial plan that you give in the Validation Criteria setting.
Select Dial Plans
This setting appears only if you set Validation for Agent DN to a validation criteria.
Select the dial plan to use for the DN validation:
Click All to validate the DN against all available dial plan formats.
Click Specific to validate the DN against one or more dial plans that you can choose from the Select Validation Criteria drop-down list.
10
Click Next to set up Agent Statistics and select the following options accordingly:
Setting
Description
Agent Statistics
Toggle Agent statistics to specify whether you want the agents to view their personal statistics in Agent Desktop.
Queue Statistics
This setting controls whether the agent can display statistics for all or some queues in the Agent Personal Statistics tab. Do one of the following:
Select All to enable the agent to display statistics for all queues.
Select None to prevent the agent from displaying queue statistics.
Select Specific and then choose the queues from the Select Queues drop-down list to enable the agent to display statistics for specific queues.
Logged-in Team Statistics
This setting is deprecated and no longer
functional.
Team Statistics
This setting controls whether the agent can display statistics for all or some teams in the Agent Personal Statistics tab. Do one of the following:
Select All to enable the agent to display statistics for all teams.
Select None to prevent the agent from displaying teams statistics.
Select Specific and then choose the teams from the Select Teams drop-down list to enable the agent to display statistics for specific teams.
You can allow only
Agent Based Teams to be added, can't add capacity
based teams (CBT).
11
Click Next to set up Desktop timeout and select one of the following options:
Setting
Description
Default Value
Select this to inherit the values given at the tenant level configuration.
Custom Value
Type the value in minutes to set the idle timeout. Enter any value 3–10,000 minutes in the text box. This overrides the value given at the tenant level configuration.