Contact History Report

Report source: DW (Data Warehouse)

Report refresh rate: 10 seconds

The Contact History report provides a detailed list of handled interactionsClosed The full conversation with an agent through a channel. For example, an interaction can be a voice call, email, chat, or social media conversation.. The report defaults to the current day. You can:

The Media Type, Agent, Skill, and Team filters allow you to search for the agents, skills, and teams you want the report to include. The search results appear after you type the first character. You can also filter inactive agents, skills, and teams out of the report by checking the boxes for Exclude Inactive Agents, Exclude Inactive Skills, and Exclude Inactive Teams.

The Number of records originating from same ANI field allows more advanced filtering by including an operator. For example, you could limit the results to any callers who have contacted you 10 or more times with one ANI.

Click Apply Options to run the Contact History report. Click an individual interaction's contact ID to open the Contact Details window.

This report will time out after 20 minutes and is limited to 56 pages of contacts.

Uncompressed calls can be played directly but compressed calls must be downloaded before they can be played. Compressed calls will be downloaded as MP3 files.

View Refused Calls

The Contact History report lets you view calls that were considered refused. A refused call in the report doesn't necessarily mean the contact was lost or that a serious problem occurred. Sometimes a call is considered refused because it was redirected to another agent.

Some refusal reasons may have associated telephony standard cause codes associated with them. This code is sent from the call carrier network to the CXone Mpower ACD and then associated with the call. When this occurs, the cause code is listed. Cause codes 0, 16 and 255 are normal releases of a call and should be associated with calls.

  1. In the Contact Details window, click the Contact Options tab.
  2. Configure the report parameters how you want them, then set the Show Refused option to Yes and select the Display Extended Data checkbox.

Data in this Report

The Contact History report has multiple columns that present data attributes and metrics. Not all of the columns appear by default. If you enable Display Extended Data, all of the columns appear. Many of the columns are for calls and voicemails only. Those will be blank for other media types.

Refusal Reasons

A refused call in the report doesn't necessarily indicate a problem. Sometimes a call is marked as refused because it was redirected to another agent. Refusals should concern you if they are consistent or if you see increasing refusal rates for an individual agent.

Sometimes refusal reasons are associated with standard cause codes from telephony providers. Cause codes are sent from a call carrier network to the ACD application and then associated with the call. When this occurs, the cause code is listed. Cause codes 16 and 255 are normal releases of a call. You should expect to see them associated with calls.

The Refusal Reasons column appears in the report only if you click the Display Extended Data checkbox in Report Options and then run the report.

Refusal reasons are for calls only. They do not apply to other media types.

Cause Codes

The following table provides descriptions for the cause codes in the Contact History Report.

Some refusal reasons may have associated telephone standard cause codes associated with them. This code is sent from the call carrier network to the platform and then associated with the call. When this occurs, the cause code is listed. The Refusal Reasons column will appear in the report only if you click the Display Extended Data check box in the Report Options and then run the report.

The Cause Code column appears in the report only if you click the Display Extended Data checkbox in Report Options and then run the report.

Cause codes are for calls only. They do not apply to other media types.

Contact Details Window

You can drill-down into a single interaction by clicking its contact ID. This opens the Contact Details window. In the Contact Details window, you can:

  • View additional columns of information about the interaction

  • Retrieve recorded calls, chats, digital interactions, and SMS messages.

  • View transcripts.

Chat, email, and digital transcripts and call recordings are available through this report as long as the files still exist in active storage. Once the files are moved to SEA (secure external access) or to your external storage, they are no longer accessible through this report. You can manually delete chat transcripts. The report will only display up to 4 MB of transcript files.

If you captured variables in the script using the savetodb Studio function or the SavetoDB property of the Assign action, the variables and the values entered by the contact are visible in a Published Variables tab. This tab only appears if there are variables to display. If the contactClosed The person interacting with an agent, IVR, or bot in your contact center. didn't enter any values or this function isn't in the script, you won't see this tab.

Contact Details Columns

Many of these columns are for calls and voicemails only. They will be blank for other media types.

Contact Life Tab

Transcript Tab

Click the Transcript tab to view:

  • The agent's average response time in seconds. This value is not shown for digital interactions.

  • The transcript of the call, chat, digital interaction, email, or voicemail.

CXone Recording Tab

Click the CXone Recording tab to access a recording of the call, chat, digital interaction, or voicemail.

Contact Press Path Tab

Click the Contact Press Path tab to view the Studio actions that were executed during the interaction. This tab does not appear for every interaction.

Contact End Reasons

The following table provides descriptions for contact end reasons. You can view these by clicking a Contact ID to load Contact Details window.

Contact end reasons are not available for digital interactions.