Chime 2.5 Gold Service Release 4

Releases:

• v2.5.7869 (April 26, 2017)
• v2.5.7729 (April 11, 2017)

Details:

• Performance improvements for sending alerts
• Logging enhancements for alerts
• Reduce the time intervals in the Alert Delivery Over Time chart for better statistics
• Fix issue with toggling the enhanced alert setting and the 'send on behalf of' setting when creating an alert from a template
• Address bug that would miscount the number of connected chats for an expert
• Fix bug in dashboard and reports that displayed incorrect number of connected and completed chats (specific reports: Connected v. Unconnected, Chat Statistics, and Conversations by Seeker)

Chime 2.5 Gold Service Release 3

Releases:

• Service Release 3 - v2.5.7583 (March 23, 2017)

Details:

• Add web client sound notifications
• Fix custom web client re-sizing bug in IE
• Office 365 queue stability improvements for UCWA
• Support for uploading alert recipients by username or display name
  • Adding alert recipients through a text file of display names, SIPURI, and email (4)
• Added a refresh button to ensure the context window always displays the chat link
  • Refresh button in the context window (2)

Chime 2.5 Gold Service Release 2

Releases:

• Service Release 2 - v2.5.7270 (February 23, 2017)
• Service Release 2 - v2.5.7242 (February 17, 2017)
• Service Release 2 - v2.5.7226 (February 14, 2017)

Details:

• Various stability and performance improvements related to UCWA (Skype Online) based queues
• Dramatically reduce logging related to agent presence and possible overlapping event subscriptions which may generate excess log files
• Alert dispatching performance improvements - typically more than 3x performance improvements
• Alerting Updates:
  • Improve how overlapping scheduled alerts are dispatched
  • Don’t send email to people if alert has been manually stopped
  • Added support for displaying embedded video in Alert Assistant client application
  • Added a new ability to upload a text file of SIPURIs with a list of alert recipients
    • Adding alert recipients through a text file of SIPURIs (4)
• Dramatically reduce writes to QueueAvailability table
• Installation improvements related to SSL configuration
• Resolved issue where agent presses ‘y’ and request is not received due to additional HTML padding
• Resolve several issues importing people from AD group where certain people did not have a first or last name

Chime 2.5 Gold Service Release 1

Releases:

• Service Release 1 - v2.5.6982 (January 18, 2017)

Bug Fixes:

• Reduce volume of agent presence change records written to the Chime QueueAgentAvailability table.
• Improve performance of the Queue and System dashboards
• QueueAgentAvailabilityArchive table added, for storing older agent availability data.
• Fix for uploading files through the web client and agent context window extension when the chat session ID contained certain characters.
• Fix display error for status of alert group whitelist status for reviewers
• Report to show agent availability in a queue for data that has been archived to the QueueAgentAvailabilityArchive table.

Chime 2.5 Gold

Releases:

• Gold - v2.5.6330 (December 7, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Chime for Office 365 version now supports UCWA
• Totally redesigned Admin section UI
  • Admin section (10)
• Added several links to the new Help section on the Chime website
  • Help link examples (6)
• Added 3 new 'out of the box' Virtual Agents
  1. Add Custom Tabs to Context Window Extension (Pre-conversational VA)
  2. Resolve All Sessions (Post-conversational VA)
  3. Detect Questions That Are Too Short (Conversational VA)
     • New virtual agents (3)
• Ability to set outage information as the queue dispatcher's Lync/S4B status message
  • Setting dispatchers status as outage (2)
• Increased character limit of alerts from 1000 to 4000
  • Alerts
• Disabled agents can now initiate a chat with their own queue
• Added tab in Session Details to display the routing history of the seekers session
  • Session Details Routing
• Increased the max number of concurrent chats to 10
  • Max Number of Concurrent Chats
• Ignored and declined chats now have different labels in routing history
  • Ignored and Declined chats
• Added ability to add comments to a chat from Session Details
  • Session details comment section
• Added ability to add session tags from the Session History popout
  • Session details session tags
• New ability for agents/managers to resolve other agents' unresolved sessions
• New 'Always On' mode for queues
  • Always On Mode
• Charts and Report Updates
  • New Queue Level Charts
    1. Most Common Question Keywords
    2. Unresolved Sessions
  • Added in Target chat concurrency value into charts
    • New Charts and Updates (3)

December 9, 2016 (3:22)

Chime 2.5 What's New Highlights

Learn about the newest features and updates in Chime 2.5. These features include improved support for Office 365, enhanced UI, updates to virtual agents, enterprise alerts, and more!

More Videos:

October 5, 2016 (2:58)

Chime Click to Chat - Enhanced Desktop Alerts

Learn about enhanced alerts, as well as how to create and deploy them.

October 6, 2016 (4:02)

Chime Click to Chat - Alerts with White List Filtering

Learn about the ability to filter certain AD groups and agents

October 12, 2016 (3:30)

Chime Virtual Assistance and Service Now Integration

Learn about pre-chat integration with Chime

October 13, 2016 (3:46)

Chime Presence and Health Monitoring

Learn about refreshing an agents presence, as well as viewing the status of various Chime controls

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where virtual agents might not have been associated with a queue correctly
• Fixed issue: Unable to receive alerts when dispatcher is the same account as the recipient

Chime 2.4 Service Release 3

Releases:

• Gold - v2.4.5897 (October 21, 2016)
• Beta - v2.4.5771 (October 4th, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Chime System Health Monitor:
  • Allows admins to quickly view the status of the various system that Chime controls or is connected to
  • Health Monitor (3)
• New Alert Features:
• Full slideshow of new alert features (28)
  • Enhanced Alerting Features:
    • Desktop application that can display “Enhanced” alerts
      • When using out alerting application, alerts will be displayed outside of the Lync^®/Skype for Business client, allowing for greater visibility.
        • Sender can define the size and position of the alert
        • Alert desktop application
    • Send alerts with rich text formatting
      • Rich text formatting
    • Send alerts in multiple languages
      • Right to Left and Left to Right language support
      • Multi-language alerts
    • Include the queue and sender pictures
      • Queue and senders photos
    • Preview the Enhanced Alerts before they are sent.
      • Enhanced alerts preview
  • Whitelist AD group recipients per queue
    • This allows queues to be restricted to AD groups that a Chime Administrator defines. These AD Groups will be used for directory searching when selecting the users/groups whom will receive alerts.
    • Whitelist settings
  • New Alerting based charts
    • Alert Delivery by Type (e.g. Email, IM, Enhanced, Undelivered)
      • Alert Delivery by Type
    • Alert Delivery Over Time
      • Alert Delivery Over Time
    • Average Time to Delivery by Type
      • Average Time to Delivery by Type
        

• Updated Queue Dashboard:
  • Ability to select greater date ranges for monitor and details panels
  • Updated the dashboard performance for better responsiveness
  • Added a new session state, "Queue Unavailable"
    • This displays if a seekers chat disconnects from the queue going unavailable
    • Queue unavailable state (3)
  • Updated the information on the Queue Status panel
    • Queue status panel
  • Updated Alert UI to support new Enhanced alert features
    • Enhanced alert UI
  • Ability to filter the desk agent
    • Desk agent search filter
  • Ability to refresh multiple Agents Lync^®/Skype for Business presence
    • Queue agent status refresh
      
      
• Updated the Queue processes
  • Separate process for each queue
    • This allows for easier queue maintenance without effecting other queues
  • Separate log files for each queue
    • This allows for easy troubleshooting of any issues that might arise.
    • Chime Logs FAQ Guide
  • Added new chart to show the Queue Availability
    • Queue availability chart
      
      
• Better control of agent and queue presence
  • Agents can now refresh their Lync^®/Skype for Business presence from their "My Dashboard" page
    • My Dashboard refresh
  • Multiple Agents Lync^®/Skype for Business presence can be refreshed in the Queue Dashboard or in Queue Settings > People tab.
    • Queue settings refresh
      
      

Videos:

October 5, 2016 (2:58)

Chime Click to Chat - Enhanced Desktop Alerts

Learn about enhanced alerts, as well as how to create and deploy them.

October 6, 2016 (4:02)

Chime Click to Chat - Alerts with White List Filtering

Learn about the ability to filter certain AD groups and agents

October 12, 2016 (3:30)

Chime Virtual Assistance and Service Now Integration

Learn about pre-chat integration with Chime

October 13, 2016 (3:46)

Chime Presence and Health Monitoring

Learn about refreshing an agents presence, as well as viewing the status of various Chime controls

Bug Fixes:

• Removed unnecessary columns in the Basic Details report (#1473)
• Removed 24-hour limit on the monitor panel and added a date selector to enable removing stuck chats (#1588)
• Added ability to remove an SSL certificate bound to Chime via the Configuration Wizard (#1649)
• Fixed issue where queue would remain offline after an agent’s max chats per day was increased (#1432)
• Alert the user that a Standard Reply with the same name already exists (#1435)
• Updated Chime to address the issue where an Agent would be offline in Lync^®/Skype for Business, but appear online in Chime (#1297)
• Updated Chime to address the issue where an Agent would be online in Lync^®/Skype for Business, but appear offline in Chime (#1189, #1570, #1317)
• Updated Chime to better handle network interruptions during chats (#1568)
• Updated Chime alert available parties when escalation to a conference fails (#1492, #1584)
• Updated Chime to better handle agent and queue presence issues (#1297, #1189, #1570, #1317)
• Minor UI updates in Queue Alerting area
• Minor UI updates in Queue Outages area
• Updated Alerting User Guide to include how to setup SSL in Chime
• Updated Chime User Guide to include how to setup SSL in Chime
• Minor updates to the Chime Install Guide
• Minor issues in enabling and disabling Virtual Agent in On-Premise and Office365 queues

Chime 2.4 Service Release 2 - v2.4.5392 (July 25, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Support for Lync^® 2010 as a platform
• API for displaying Lync^® and Chime presence
• Added support for User ratings and Comments when using the ChimeHub

Bug Fixes:

• The following issues have been fixed:
  • Chat routing issue where an agent might be prompted to accept a chat when the seeker has closed the session
  • Lync^®/Skype for Business^® would silently end a waiting chat
  • Chat statistics by queue reports column totals seemed incorrect
  • Agent receiving more chats than their concurrent limit
  • Chats not being routed when a seeker sends an attachment before an agent has accepted the conversation
  • Dashboard labels are incorrect when viewed in months in certain time zones
  • Issue that might produce a KeyNotFound error when using ChimeHub

Chime 2.4 Service Release 1 - v2.4.5171 (May 26, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Advance installation mode
  • Customize database name
  • Customize Install path

Bug Fixes:

• Agent default name is set to {ExpertFullName} when creating new queues.
• Support for database names containing a "-".
• Added support for long questions with Unicode characters.
• Fixed issue where selecting a date range larger than 1 day in a UTC+ time zone would cause Chime to spike the CPU and Memory usage for select reports.
• Updated charts to minimize memory issues in Internet Explorer.
• Optimized expert data request to improve performance for queues that have a large number of agents.
• Fixed issue where Managers might be able to see queue they are not assigned to.

Chime 2.4 Gold Update - v2.4.5036 (April 18, 2016)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issues with upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4
  • Agent's login name not being added automatically
  • Completed conversation showing as still being active
• Fixed issue where long questions we causing chats not to be routed correctly

Chime 2.4 Gold - v2.4.4960 (April 6, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Virtual Agents - The virtual agent layer will provide integration via compiled C# or C# as script in order to:
  1. Provide pre-chat integration with other systems - i.e. lookup customer’s email against ServiceNow^®, Microsoft Dynamics^®, Salesforce^®, Alchemy^®, or in house ITSM solution and retrieve all open tickets and/or assign routing tags
  2. Stage additional UI in the agent’s context window based on the pre-chat lookup. This will allow agents to see UI from other systems based on the customer and/or lookup in step 1 (i.e. new ticket UI)
  3. Provide basic virtual conversational agent functionality (ask a series of questions and then assign routing options – scripted or C# and our Virtual Agent SDK)
  4. Post-chat event handling – to allow Instant Chime to post the entire conversation, as well as metadata, to any external system
  • Virtual Agent Presentation (11)

  Virtual Agents are such a powerful new feature that we've created its own page. » Virtual Agent integration.

• Flexible User Interface for Agents - Virtual Agents can also work with the new Agent Assist Tool to provide custom services in the agent's Context Window Extension navigation pane
  • Custom Services for Agents (5)
• Configurable Web Client - Features such as agent picture, logo, or form fields would be configurable in the app UI. Ability to have multiple web clients on the same Chime server
  • Custom Form Builder (16)
• Enterprise IM Alerts - Send IM-based alerts via Lync^® right from the Chime application
  • Alerts (10)
• Persistent Chat Rooms - Used as a back channel for agents and managers to communicate. One each for managers and agents per queue
  • Chat Rooms (10)
• Outages - To be displayed in both the web client and system/queue dashboards and ability to turn an outage into an alert
  • Outages (14)
• Agent and Queue Pictures - Agents and queues can have photos
  • Agent Photo
  • Queue Photo
• Routing based on idle time - Additional routing method where chats route to agents who have been idle longest instead of routing based on number of chats
  • Longest Idle Hunt
• Agent Assist Tool - Ability to auto accept Chime conversation invitations and context window extension support for Office 365
  • Agent Assist Tool (10)
• Edit past conversation's status - Ability to mark a conversation as resolved/unresolved and add additional comments after the conversation is complete
  • Edit Previous Tickets
• 'No Chat' option for agents - Ability to turn chats on/off for an agent in queue settings
  • No Chat Option
• Allow reports to have times specified - Date pickers in the reports section would allow a user to specify a time (HH:MM) to search for in the report
  • Time Selectable Reports
• Add date selector to agent dashboard - Allow managers to see agent's past history
  • My Dashboard Date Range

Other New Features:

• Added support for Skype for Business^® 2016 Client
• New documentation about how to debug virtual agents in the Sandbox using Visual Studio
• Improved the filter of the log files
• Added a more informative web client error message
• Ability to send email to a specified queue address for ticketing
• Support for custom SQL ports
• Updated the Sign On/Off button on the Agent Dashboard to reduce confusion

Videos:

February 25, 2016 (1:23)

Get Help Directly from Outlook^®

Learn how to quickly initiate a chat with the help desk right from your Outlook client.

January 28, 2016 (3:27)

Virtual Agent Demo

High level overview of Chime’s Virtual Agent SDK with fun examples.

February 2, 2016 (1:51)

Persistent Chat Rooms

The all new persistent chat rooms feature allows for back channel communications among agents and managers.

February 11, 2016 (1:46)

Enterprise IM Alerts

Quickly send out Lync-based alerts to everyone about outages, meetings, or anything you want!

January 28, 2016 (2:36)

Salesforce® Integration

Learn how easily Chime for Lync^®/Skype for Business® can integrate with Salesforce®.

January 28, 2016 (2:07)

MS Dynamics® Integration

See how easily Chime can integrate with Microsoft Dynamics®.

January 27, 2016 (2:04)

ServiceNow® Integration

Demonstrates how Chime can integrate with ServiceNow in the context window extension.

February 2, 2016 (1:45)

Alchemy® API Integration

Demonstrates how Chime can integrate with Alchemy® API via a virtual agent.

Screenshots:

Salesforce^® Integration (7)

MS Dynamics^® Integration (6)

ServiceNow^® Integration (8)

Alchemy^® Integration (3)

Alerts (10)

Outages (14)

Chat Rooms (10)

Custom Form Builder (16)

Virtual Agent Presentation (11)

Grabbing Salesforce^® Contact (5)

Agent Assist Tool (10)

Chime 2.4 Beta - v2.4.4645 (March 7, 2016)

Main New Features:

• New documentation about how to debug virtual agents in the Sandbox using Visual Studio
• Sandbox unloads virtual agents that exceed 20 seconds to load
• Show error messages from virtual agents that time out when they’re loaded in the Admin section
• Disable all virtual agents if they are unloaded because of a virtual agent exceeding the timeout value when loading
• Make the timeout value for loading virtual agents configurable in settings.xml
• Improved the filter of the log files
• Added a more informative web client error message
• Ability to send email to a specified queue address for ticketing

Bug Fixes:

• Sandbox associates virtual agents correctly if they’re moved from “loaded” to “ready for testing” individually
• Update queue’s settings associated with a virtual agent when that virtual agent status is changed from enabled/disabled in the Admin panel
• Fixed bug where end date could be before the start date on session
• Fixed bug where Basic Details was unable to be exported as a CSV
• Converted session history to use local time
• Fixed tool tips being cut off
• Fixed issue where Queue Status and State might be displayed in an odd position based on screen resolution
• Fixed issue with Office 365 rollover queues
• Updated the link for the .NET 4.5.1 with the live address
• Fixed issue with table not rendering long questions correctly
• Fixed issue where queues would come online if a schedule is added to it
• Catch exceptions if we are unable to write to the database due to size restrictions or SQL logging restrictions

Chime 2.4 Beta - v2.4.4514 (February 19, 2016)

Main New Features:

• Virtual Agents - The virtual agent layer will provide integration via compiled C# or C# as script in order to:
  1. Provide pre-chat integration with other systems - i.e. lookup customer’s email against ServiceNow^®, Microsoft Dynamics^®, Salesforce^®, Alchemy^®, or in house ITSM solution and retrieve all open tickets and/or assign routing tags
  2. Stage additional UI in the agent’s context window based on the pre-chat lookup. This will allow agents to see UI from other systems based on the customer and/or lookup in step 1 (i.e. new ticket UI)
  3. Provide basic virtual conversational agent functionality (ask a series of questions and then assign routing options – scripted or C# and our Virtual Agent SDK)
  4. Post-chat event handling – to allow Instant Chime to post the entire conversation, as well as metadata, to any external system

  Virtual Agents are such a powerful new feature that we've created its own page. » Virtual Agent integration.

• Flexible User Interface for Agents - Virtual Agents can also work with the new Agent Assist Tool to provide custom services in the agent's Context Window Extension navigation pane
• Configurable Web Client - Features such as agent picture, logo, or form fields would be configurable in the app UI. Ability to have multiple web clients on the same Chime server
• Enterprise IM Alerts - Send IM-based alerts via Lync^® right from the Chime application
• Persistent Chat Rooms - Used as a back channel for agents and managers to communicate. One each for managers and agents per queue
• Outages - To be displayed in both the web client and system/queue dashboards and ability to turn an outage into an alert
• Agent and Queue Pictures - Agents and queues can have photos
• Routing based on idle time - Additional routing method where chats route to agents who have been idle longest instead of routing based on number of chats
• Agent Assist Tool - Ability to auto accept Chime conversation invitations and context window extension support for Office 365
• Edit past conversation's status - Ability to mark a conversation as resolved/unresolved and add additional comments after the conversation is complete
• 'No Chat' option for agents - Ability to turn chats on/off for an agent in queue settings
• Allow reports to have times specified - Date pickers in the reports section would allow a user to specify a time (HH:MM) to search for in the report
• Add date selector to agent dashboard - Allow managers to see agent's past history

Videos:

February 25, 2016 (1:23)

Get Help Directly from Outlook^®

Learn how to quickly initiate a chat with the help desk right from your Outlook client.

January 28, 2016 (3:27)

Virtual Agent Demo

High level overview of Chime’s Virtual Agent SDK with fun examples.

February 2, 2016 (1:51)

Persistent Chat Rooms

The all new persistent chat rooms feature allows for back channel communications among agents and managers.

February 11, 2016 (1:46)

Enterprise IM Alerts

Quickly send out Lync-based alerts to everyone about outages, meetings, or anything you want!

January 28, 2016 (2:36)

Salesforce® Integration

Learn how easily Chime for Lync^®/Skype for Business® can integrate with Salesforce®.

January 28, 2016 (2:07)

MS Dynamics® Integration

See how easily Chime can integrate with Microsoft Dynamics®.

January 27, 2016 (2:04)

ServiceNow® Integration

Demonstrates how Chime can integrate with ServiceNow in the context window extension.

February 2, 2016 (1:45)

Alchemy® API Integration

Demonstrates how Chime can integrate with Alchemy® API via a virtual agent.

Chime 2.3 Service Release 3 - v2.3.4564 (February 29, 2016)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug with time zone conversions causing issues with queues that are scheduled

Chime 2.3 Service Release 2 - v2.3.3713 (December 17, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Added Test Email option to allow Admins to test the SMTP settings
• Renamed the "Abandoned" reports to "Declined/Ignored" for better clarity
• When an Admin or Manager ends a waiting chat, that chat will be labelled as "Dropped"
• House cleaning of install files; removing back-ups of non-changing files
• Added LyncSigninTimeout, LyncSignOutTimeout, LyncShutDownTimeout, and LyncInitializationTimeout keys to settings.xml

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug where On Premise queues would shut down and be set to disabled if an Admin opens the control panel tab
• Fixed bug where concurrent chats values were not being displayed in the concurrent reports
• Changed reports to display in Server time rather than UTC
• Updated the "Conversations by seeker" reports to display "Completed" conversations
• Fixed bug in "Available Agent over 24 hrs" report

Chime 2.3 Service Release 1 - v2.3.3296 (October 14, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Carriage returns will now display in text resources, not just "/n"
• When a manager manually ends a chat from the Queue Dashboard Monitor Panel, the chat is marked as "Disconnected" in the database
• When an administrator forces a queue process to be ended (via the Control Panel), all waiting and connected chat in the queue are marked as "Disconnected" in the database

Bug Fixes:

• Text Resource {SeekerSamAccount} will now display the seeker's login name when using Lync on premise and Office365
• Addressed issue if a seeker disconnected before the agent joined a conference, the agent's concurrent chat count would be incorrect

Chime 2.3 - v2.3.3266 (October 6, 2015)

Main New Features:

• New System Variable to display the seeker's waiting time in h:m:s format
• Ability for Administrators and Managers to manually end chat in the queue
• No longer allow web client chats to start if the queue is offline or unavailable
• Improved validation of the dispatcher accounts
• Localized the timestamps when displaying the chat history details
• Ability to track the IP address of web client chats
• Added Administrative control panel to enable and disable On-Prem and Office365 queues
• Added O365PresenceIntervalSec to allow customers to be able to control how often the agents presence is checked
• Office 365
  • Improved Office365 robustness
  • Optimize Office 365 expert authentication
  • Increased time to obtain list of user for selecting administrators at install
  • Administrative Control Panel that will display the PID of Lync and LyncOnline app associated with a queue
  • Improved validation of the Office365 web client set-up
  • Display the seeker's SIP address in Queue details for users that we are unable to get their full name from Office365
  • Display the seeker's question in the conference chat with the agent, dispatcher and seeker
• New Chart and Metrics
  • Chart Statistics by Queue

Screen Shots:

Screen Shots (4)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with Skype plug-in injecting additional code around phone numbers, causing our text resource message limit to be reached
• Fixed issue where updating an agent may cause a "An expert with this LoginName already exists" message to appear
• Fixed issue where the System Offline Text resource was not being used if the queue was offline
• Fixed issue where certain column were not sorting under Queue Dashboard > Details
• Fixed issue where RTF and HTML encoded chat message have the encoding stored in the chat history
• Fixed issue where some charts might be displaying the day before due to time zone mismatches
• Fixed issue where a queue might need to be restarted if all agents are unavailable then become available
• Fixed issue that Email transcripts were being sent when a chat wasn't connected
• Fixed issue where the Agents name in the Text resources was "Null" -- It is now the agents full name
• Fixed issue where Average Seeker Rating by Agent chart wasn't being displayed
• Fixed issue where the declined/ignored count was off in the agent dashboard
• Fixed Office365 issue where Lync and LyncOnline apps for a queue might continue to run after the queue has been shut down
• Fixed Office365 issue where an agent would be available, but show as offline

Chime 2.2 Gold - v2.2.3149 (August 18, 2015)

Main New Features:

• SSL Setup Instructions

Videos:

August 19, 2015 (1:47)

Open Context Window in a Browser

See how easily you can open the Agent Context Window in a browser.

August 26, 2015 (1:31)

Lync to Lync Helpdesk Chat

See how you can easily connect to your Helpdesk via Lync.

August 28, 2015 (4:13)

Customizing the Web Client

Learn how easy it is to quickly switch out the Chime logo with your own.

Bug Fixes:

• Offline queues no longer route chats that were previously closed by seekers
• Web client now supports authenticated or unauthenticated access from outside the network
• Fixed issue with inconsistency of email transcript's sending/receiving time
• Fixed issue where renaming an Office 365 queue while the queue is running causes the queue logging to fail
• Address issue where the queue was not detecting the agent's status correctly after presence change
• Fixed Lync^® Office 365 issue with inbound chat sometimes not routing to available agents
• If all agents in a queue have reached their max number of daily chats, the queue will go offline until agents under the daily chat limit are available
• Fixed an issue in queue scheduling where the Wednesday stop time UTC conversion was being done incorrectly
• Improved stability when sending email transcripts
• Fixed issue with uploading files from agent context window

Chime 2.2 Release Candidate - v2.2.3013 (July 13, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Skill Tag Routing - Ability to route inbound chats based on an agent's area of expertise
• Skype for Business^® support
• Rollover queues
• Office 365 Active Directory Support
• Updated Dashboard
• Prevent ability to create a dispatcher using the same Lync^® account as the web client endpoints
• Prevent ability to use the same account for Lync^® on premise and Lync^® Office 365 web clients
• Information on how to launch the Lync^® client from a web link - see video below and the FAQ
• New Charts
  • System Level
    • Available Agents Over 24 Hours
    • Concurrent Chat Percentage by Agent
    • Concurrent Chat Percentage by Queue
    • Concurrent Chat Percentage Over Time
    • Conversations by Seeker
    • Sessions by Problem Tag
    • Sessions by Session Tag
  • Queue Level
    • Conversations by Seeker
    • Available Agents Over 24 Hours
    • Concurrent Chat Percentage by Agent
    • Concurrent Chat Percentage over Time
    • Sessions by Problem Tag
    • Sessions by Session Tag

Videos:

July 13, 2015 (1:42)

Skill Tag Routing

Set up skill tag routing to route inbound chats to experts with specified skill tag.

June 25, 2015 (0:49)

Launch a Lync^® Chat

Learn how easy it is to start a Lync^® chat with a Chime queue right from a webpage.

July 16, 2015 (0:36)

Dashboard Redesign

See the redesign of the Chime dashboard to include agent availability, number of people waiting, and more.

Bug Fixes:

• Chime Hub connection status is no longer green before approval
• Fixed issue for long delay for a queue to go online after switching from being based on schedule to availability
• Fixed charting issue: total chat duration shows different values than total chat duration by agent
• Unconnected chats with a duration of 0 seconds are no longer being calculated in the average chat duration
• One the seeker details page, the chart reflecting seeker history now properly reflects the data in the table below
• Fixed database query getting messages in a conversation that sometimes failed to retrieve chat history
• Fixed issue: Agent's messages disappear in a chat where seeker was rolled over
• In a rollover queue, files from seeker now show up in the Files tab in the context window
• Fixed issue: No prompt to accept or decline incoming seeker request in rollover queue
• Fixed issue: Agents did not see new requests from a seeker caused by agent being mis-calculated and the routing getting jammed up
• Fixed some minor queue scheduling issues

Chime 2.1 Gold - v2.1.2632 (May 26, 2015)

Videos:

May 22, 2015 (1:54)

Click-to-Chat Demo

Demonstrates how customers or employees can get help through Chime's click-to-chat application for Microsoft Lync^®.

Bug Fixes:

• Max concurrent chats are now respected across multiple queues
• Queue settings now cleared when a new queue modal is opened
• Lync^® on Premise - When displaying chat history, the new chat history no longer needs to wait until the window is closed before loading
• Various other fixes

Chime v2.1.2603 (May 18, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Released details for the Chime API. Please visit www.addchime.com/how-to-deploy.html for additional information
• Agent Name displayed to seeker is configurable
• Agent can upload file to web based seekers

Videos:

May 12, 2015 (1:27)

Client Window Extension #2

Some of the new features added to the Chime client window extension.

May 15, 2015 (1:03)

Standard Replies

Shows managers and admins how to configure standard replies for agents to use.

Known Issues:

• Max concurrent chats may not be respected across multiple queues
• Queue settings may not be cleared when a new queue modal is opened
• Lync^® on Premise - When displaying chat history, the new chat history will not load until the window is closed
• May run into validation issue when adding new people or dispatchers

Bug Fixes:

• Displays queue name to seeker instead of the display name of the AD Lync account used by the queue
• Updated tooltips to improve user experience
• The Configuration Wizard will launch when the installer finishes, rather than during the install process
• Various other fixes

What's Next:

• Address outstanding issues for the 2.1 Gold release

Chime v2.1.2537 (May 6, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Addition of Queue API
• Improved support for IE7 to Chime Hub
• Ability to tag sessions as resolved or unresolved
• Improvement in authentication - Windows login should now be correctly passed to Chime app when accessing the site with a FQDN

Videos:

May 6, 2015 (1:37)

Client Window Extension #1

Some of the new features added to the Chime client window extension.

Known Issues:

• Max concurrent chats are not respected across multiple queues
• IE 9 file upload issues
• Read-only mode does not require manager status in order to be enabled
• Agent max concurrent chat limits are not respected across multiple queues
• When transferring an agent to a new agent, the agent has to log off Lync before they can receive a new chat
• A seeker waiting in a queue is not notified if the queue goes offline because all agents have left
• A seeker waiting in a queue is not notified if the queue goes offline because it has schedule to go offline
• Agents unable to send files to seekers
• Full names of agents are sent to the seeker
• Chime Hub - Chime Engine reconnection to Chime Hub not automatic after Chime Hub site is restarted

Bug Fixes:

• Fix issue with licenses for new queues
• Seeker ability to send files to agent in IE 11, IE 10, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
• Fixed issue keeping seekers stuck waiting in queue
• Seeker waiting message update interval being honored until queue is restarted
• Messages remaining in chat after seeker leaves
• Closed web client chats that are not accepted continue to be routed
• Dropped web client chats never timing out, newer requests are ignored
• Adding groups:
  • Group members not being displayed
  • License key values for agent limits not honored by groups
• Restrict manager's ability to add/delete queue dispatchers
• Unable to add skill tag to a new person
• Unable to transfer a chat
• Web client window is blank when no agents are available
• Lync 2013 - Chat history on agent dashboard is being duplicated

What's Next:

• Configurable Agent display name
• Agent file upload to seekers
• Additional chat transcript delivery options
• Displaying Seeker question in agent chat window

Chime 2.0.2 - v2.1.2440 (April 14, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Now have option to not save content of chat sessions - we will still save meta data for statistics and analytics
• Ability to email chat transcripts
• Seeker now has the ability to rate the conversation
• Created a Read Only mode for managers - If checked its prevents managers from changing any queue settings
• Queue Scheduling - Ability to set queues to come online or go offline at particular times of the day
• Session Status and tags - group conversations by similar topic tags and whether or not they have been resolved
• SSL support

Videos:

April 1, 2015 (0:55)

Email Transcripts of Chat

How to use Email Transcript feature to request an email containing a transcript of the chat.

April 3, 2015 (0:51)

Add & Remove Agents

Shows managers and admins how to add and remove agents to a queue.

April 9, 2015 (0:51)

Queue Scheduling

Schedule queues to turn on and off at specific times.

April 10, 2015 (1:01)

Seeker Rating Agent

Seekers can rate the agent and leave comments about their chat session.

April 17, 2015 (0:37)

Adding License Key

Shows admins how to add a license key.

Known Issues:

• With Lync Online, we know that there are some issues with agent awareness (and monitoring agent presence status) – we are working on this area.
• Inability to add persons with an apostrophe in the username

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug where changing the ExpertAccept time in the queue routing modal settings would screw up routing so that an expert could never accept conversations fast enough (value is set as seconds, timeout on retrieving expert response was expecting milliseconds; it worked when queue initially loaded, because the right conversion was made then, but not on changing the setting)
• Fixed error where changing an expert to a priority list that did not previously exist affects the routine to update priority lists
• Remove experts from queues when they are archived in the Admin section
• Updated email transcript to include session ID

What's Next:

• Seeker Dashboard
• New section to provide search capabilities to managers - located at queue level
• Fix charts related to agent ratings
• Agent dashboard will include the ability to download the context window extension
• Web client will support ability to show/hide email transcript and agent rating

Chime 2.0.1 (March 23, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Referring URL now available to agent context window for on-premise chats and chats routed through ChimeHub
• Lync^® Web Meeting URL is now available for Office 365 conversations
• UI update on agent context window
• UI tweaks around tables for dashboards and settings

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed minor bugs in Admin settings

Chime Hub Integration:

For detailed instructions on how to set up an external web client with Chime Hub click here » Staging External Web Client With Chime Hub

Videos:

March 23, 2015 (1:56)

Screen Sharing Chime

Agents can send the seeker a link and step up that conversation into a screen sharing session.

Chime 2.0 Beta (March 17, 2015)

Main New Features:

• Support for Lync^® Online
• Support for Lync^® 2013 on premise
• Chimehub.com integration – to enable chat links on external web sites via the Chime Hub cloud based proxy
• No need to use IIS – Chime 2.0 will self-host the HTTP stack
• Support for ‘standard replies’ and a configurable agent context window (via the Lync^® context window extension)

Known Issues:

• Office 365 Queues Only:
  • Presence values advertised by queue endpoints when viewed in a Lync^® contact list may not always match the queue’s online/offline state.
  • Agent Lync^® client extension window is not launched automatically, it must be supplied via text resource and launched in an external web browser.
  • Dashboard loading may be slow
• Web Client Only:
  • File upload doesn't work in Internet Explorer
  • File upload doesn't work in Chime Hub
  • Styling is broken in <IE8
• Active Directory search for Office 365 may not work
• Stopping and then immediately restarting a Lync^® Online queue is a bit fragile. This might place the queue into a strange state and restarting the queue might be difficult without a service restart
• The agent experience using a mobile device (i.e. iPad) is not working correctly when the agent accepts a session request from the Chime server. The agent can accept and send text, but is not receiving content from the other party.

Chime v1.1.1526 (August 11, 2014)

Bug Fixes:

• Removed restriction from only being able to install on SQL servers using port 1433

Chime v1.1.1352 (July 10, 2014)

Main New Features:

• Added a default license for 1 queue with 3 experts
• The Web seeker's name is prepended to the messages sent to the expert
• When added to the database, the sip will be all lowercase

Bug Fixes:

• Unauthorized users can no longer view queue settings
• Fixed various items with licensing
• Disabled modals from closing when clicking outside of them

Chime v1.1.1261 (June 27, 2014)

Main New Features:

• When adding a new Person, the Max Concurrent default is now 2

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed sip comparison being case-sensitive