myContactCenterManual

Grouping and summarizing

How to group data in the report designer by skill, agent or time interval, sort it, summarize it into totals, counts and percentages, and filter it.

Most evaluations summarize conversations or agent actions: per skill, per agent, per hour. To do this, you group the data and put totals in the header or footer of the group.

Creating groups

In the Group and Sort window at the bottom of the designer:

  1. Click Add a Group and choose the field to group by, for example SkillName. A group header with this group field is created above Detail.
  2. If the group should also have a footer — for example for its totals — check Show Footer in its row.
  3. Under Sort Order, you set whether the groups appear Ascending or Descending.
  4. You create further levels — for example per skill and, within it, per language — in the same way and arrange them with Move Up and Move Down.

Delete removes the selected level; if its header or footer is not empty, the designer asks first. Then drag the group field from the Field List into the group header so that each group shows its name.

If a report should only show totals, set the height of Detail to 0 — this is how the templates work.

Good group fields

Field Groups by
SkillName, SkillGroupName, LanguageName skill, skill group, language
AgentName agent (agent report, conversation details report)
ConversationType conversation type: call, email, chat …
PauseReason activity (agent report)
Classification classification
Name alarm (alarm report)
GroupTime time interval according to Time group base and Time group count — see below

Grouping by time interval

myContactCenter forms the GroupTime field when the report runs, from the parameters Time group base and Time group count, in the local time of the report. If you group by it, one group per time interval is created: with Hour and 1, one per hour; with Minute and 15, one per quarter hour; with Day, one per day. The “… by Time …” templates work this way. Whoever runs the report chooses the time interval — so the same design works for daily and monthly overviews.

For weekdays or times of day over a longer period, create a calculated field, for example GetDayOfWeek([ConversationStartTime]) or GetHour([ConversationStartTime]), and group by it.

Sorting

  • Add a Sort sorts the rows within the groups, for example by the start of the conversation.
  • You sort groups by their total — for example the skills by the number of conversations — with the Sorting Summary property of the group header.

Summaries

A total is a Label control with a summary:

  1. Drag a field, for example IsConnected, from the Field List into the group header or group footer.
  2. Open the smart tag on the control and, under Summary, the settings.
  3. Under Summary Running, choose what the summary covers: Group, Page or Report.
  4. Under Summary Func, choose the function, for example Sum.

The expression of the control is then, for example, sumSum([IsConnected]); you can extend it like any expression. Without a summary, a control only shows the value of the current row. The functions available include Sum, Count, Count (Distinct), Average, Min, Max, Median, Percentage, Running Summary and Record Number.

Metrics from the statistics

Metric Expression
Conversations sumDCount([guid]) — counts each conversation once
Connected, abandoned, rejected sumSum([IsConnected]), sumSum([IsAbandoned]), sumSum([IsRejected])
Share connected sumSum([IsConnected]) / sumDCount([guid]), formatted as a percentage
Average talk time Iif(sumSum([IsConnected]) = 0, 0, sumSum([TotalConnectDuration]) / sumSum([IsConnected]))
Average wait time sumAvg([TotalWaitDuration])
Offered, accepted (agent report) sumSum([isPresentedConversation]), sumSum([isConnectedConversation])
Wrap-up time (agent report) sumSum([WrapupDuration])

myContactCenter shows times such as the average talk time as a duration as long as the control has no format string — see What myContactCenter prepares when running. How the templates calculate service level and reachability is described in Templates.

Filtering

The parameters already filter by skill, language, agent and conversation type in the query. For further conditions, the report has a filter of its own: select the report and, under Properties, open the Filter String setting. In the Filter Editor window, you put together the condition, for example [IsInternalConversation] = 0 to leave out internal calls. This filter affects the rows loaded for the period.

    ↑ ↓ select · Enter open · Esc close