Release 3.21
The new 3.21 release introduces many performance and reliability improvements, as well as a multitude of fixes and our brand new enhanced messaging feature. We've improved custom schedules, operational parameters and user management for admins in NEONNOW Admin.
Release Schedule
London (EU) 🇬🇧 : 23rd May
Oregon (US) 🇺🇸: 27th May
North Virginia (US) 🇺🇸: 29th May
Australia (AP) 🇦🇺 : 30th May
NEONNOW
General
- Improvements to reliability of interactions, including accepting and closing
- Improvements to UI performance for emails, chat messages and interaction outcome notes
- Small visual changes to the enhanced logging preference and added a new performance heartbeat log that logs every 5 seconds when enabled
Fixes
- In ACW, the interaction outcomes accordions on softphone are now open by default
- Customer profiles no longer infinitely show a loader when the profile doesn't exist
- When reloading the page with a task and a customer profile, the profile will now always display
- Can no longer accidentally create multiple agent tasks by clicking the button quickly
- Visual fix for warning messages in dialpad having no background colour and reduce icon size
- Sometimes incoming chats, tasks and emails would not appear when channel blending was on and a call was in progress
- Softphone: when having an active task and active call at the same time trying to close the task can lead to a stuck state
- Interaction outcomes (wrap codes & notes) no longer copy between tasks. Each task will correctly show its own code and notes when switching between tasks
- Having a disabled microphone will no longer show an error toast message
- When ACW is turned off and you transfer a task, email or chat an error message will no longer be displayed
- Attached intents now correctly have a grey background
- Conferences - names and phone numbers will now correctly show a ... when on small screens
- Conferences - the join button will now join everyone, including the agent
- Softphone/Create SMS - when receiving an incoming task, the content is no longer cleared
- The templated responses popup no longer gets cut off on some screen sizes
- Softphone - call history is not correctly spaced
Admin
General
- Visual refresh for all wizards. More available space and better scrolling. Smaller titles and subtitles
- All dropdown lists with queues are now in alphabetical order
- All dropdown lists with queues now have a refresh button to fetch the latest queues
The new Admin wizard UI experience, showing setting up an external messaging provider for enhanced messaging.
Users
- Admins can now re-invite other admins
- You can now see an "active" or "invited" status for each admin user
- All password input fields (forgot password etc.) are now consistent with a confirm password field
- Stricter admin password requirements (14 characters, one upper, one lower and one symbol)
- General improvements and fixes for sign in screens, such as reset password, sign in and sign up
Custom Schedules
- Visual fixes and improvements for custom schedules
- A new option for "View Dates" has been added in to the action menu for a custom schedule
- Improvements to performance when retreiving custom schedules from contact flows
Operational Parameters
- New: Operational parameters can now be multiple queues
- Selected table rows no longer resets in operational parameters when one is saved or edited
- Improvements to performance when retreiving operational parameters from contact flows
- When editing a parameter of value "0" it will now correctly display and not show an empty value field
- True/false parameters will now correctly show as "true" and "false" which is what's returned to contact flows
- Performance improvements when loading the list of operational parameters on the admin management page
- Fixed an issue where the operational parameter name field would sometimes clear when adding or editing a parameter
- Opening a create operational parameter window after editing or adding one previously, will now show the correct (or empty) content
Selecting multiple queues in Operational Parameters
Fixes
- Clicking rich text controls would do nothing when adding or editing templated responses
New Features
Enhanced Messaging
We're launching our new enhanced messaging feature! This adds rich text, attachments and more for Amazon Connect web chat and support for third party channels, such as WhatsApp, FaceBook Messenger and more.
If you or your contact centre could benefit from this, please reach out to your account manager for more information.
In addition, we've improved our general chat user experience with:
- A dynamic chat text field that grows as you type
- Better indication for each type of chat
- Notifications for new chat messages
- Red dot indicators for chats with new messages
- Improved messaging UI
A FaceBook messenger chat experience in NEONNOW, with unread message notifications.