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Email Category, Status and Custom Field setup

To help you organize emails, you can customize Categories, Custom Fields, and Statuses.

Note: An Enterprise subscription is required.

Setting up email Category values

Create values that are presented to operators as options under Category on an email form.

Fastpath: To create email Category values, go to Setup > Account Setup > Emails > Email Categories.

Setting up email Status values

Create values that are presented to operators as options under Status on an email form.

Fastpath: To create email Custom Status values, go to Setup > Account Setup > Emails > Email Statuses.

Setting up email Custom Field values

Create values that are presented to operators as options under Custom 1 or Custom 2 on an email form.

Fastpath: To create email Custom Field values, go to Setup > Account Setup > Emails > Email Custom Fields 1 or 2.

This video illustrates the Email Management feature within BoldChat, which allows email to be routed, escalated and treated like work tickets for easy follow-up.

How to configure BoldChat to receive emails

Configure BoldChat to receive, track, and manage emails.

Note: An Enterprise subscription is required.
  1. Create a new email account:
    1. From the main menu of the operator client, go to Setup > Account Setup. The Account Setup window is displayed.
    2. On the left menu of the Account Setup window, click Emails > Email Accounts > New. The New Email Account window is displayed.
  2. Enter basic account settings on the Email Account tab:
    • Enter a Name for the account for internal reference
    • Enter the Email Address to use when sending email.
    • Enter a Friendly Email Name to be used as the From Email Name when sending emails via this account. For example: Support Team, Jane Doe.
    • Enter the User Name of the POP3 server. For example, in the email address support@acme.com, the user name is support.
    • Enter the Password associated with the user name for the POP3 server.
    • Enter the host name or IP address of your mail Server. If your email address is support@acme.com, then your mail server host name is normally mail.acme.com or just acme.com. All inbound emails will be retrieved from this POP3 server. You are not required to specify a SMTP server address. The desktop Operator Client is designed to use BoldChat's SMTP servers to send outbound emails.
    • Choose your server Type: POP3 or IMAP.
    • Select Active to activate the email account.
    • Select Leave Copy of Message to store copies of emails on your POP3 or mail server to facilitate download to Outlook or any other mail client.
    • To use a secure connection to your mail server, check Secure Connection (SSL) and enter the Port to be used for the connection. The default port is 995. Please check with your service provider as required.
  3. Enter additional settings on the Other Settings tab:
    • Select Maintain email thread ownership on new mails to preserve the Owner (Operator) field of each email thread.
    • Select Show emails as plain text to show incoming email as plain text rather HTML.
    • Select Append Email Thread ID to append the Email Thread ID to the subject of replies. This make it easier to keep track of conversations with customers/visitors.
    • Set the Encoding for outgoing and incoming messages.
    • Use the Auto-bcc field to specify an email address that is included in the BCC field of all outbound emails from the Operator Client.
    • Associate a Department with the email account. The Department can be used to override account-level automatic distribution settings and to determine which operators can be assigned emails by the automatic distribution system.
    • Assign Canned Message Folders. See Canned Messages.
  4. On the Auto-Responder tab, you can setup auto-response rules to answer incoming emails.
  5. On the SMTP Setup tab you can setup an SMTP server to use for your outgoing email.
  6. On the Email Footer tab you can compose, design, and enable a footer that is appended to all emails sent from this email account.
  7. Save your changes.

How to set up canned messages

Canned messages are predefined text strings that the operator can insert into a conversation. With canned messages, the operator can reuse commonly used responses without having to type them.

For each technology, canned messages are stored and managed in their respective area.

  • Chat: Setup > Account Setup > Chats > Chat Canned Messages.
  • Email: Setup > Account Setup > Emails > Email Canned Messages.
  • SMS and Facebook Messenger: Setup > Account Setup > Messaging > Canned Messages.
  • Twitter: Setup > Account Setup > Twitter > Tweet Canned Messages.

Operators with proper permission can create and manage canned messages at Setup > My Canned Messages Setup.

How to create canned messages for operators

Canned messages are predefined strings of text that the operator can insert into a conversation. With canned messages, the operator can reuse commonly used responses without having to type them.

  1. Choose the technology for which you want to create or edit a canned message:
    • Chat: Setup > Account Setup > Chats > Chat Canned Messages
    • Email: Setup > Account Setup > Emails > Email Canned Messages (Premier or Enterprise subscription required)
    • SMS: Setup > Account Setup > SMS > SMS Canned Messages (Premier or Enterprise subscription required)
    • Twitter: Setup > Account Setup > Twitter > Twitter Canned Messages (Premier or Enterprise subscription required)
  2. Create, edit, or copy a canned message:
    1. Go to the top of the Account Setup ? Canned Message Folder window and click New, Copy, or Edit.
  3. Name and identify the message so operators can find it with ease:
    1. Fill in the Name field. This value is only used internally to identify and reference the canned message, and it is never exposed to visitors
    2. Option. Fill in the Subject field. This is only shown to visitors under certain circumstances, such as Auto Answers' labels.
    3. Option. Associate Keywords with the canned message. BoldChat indexes and searches these words and phrases to help identify canned messages that may be relevant to a chat session.
  4. Option. Set an Access Key, which is a keyboard shortcut that inserts the canned message into an active chat.

    Conflicts can occur when a particular key combination is registered to other applications on your local machine. Operators should check key availability by clicking Check.

  5. Set the message's Language.

    This value acts as a filter to ensure that operators see only messages matching the visitor's language. When no value is specified, no filter is applied and the message is displayed to all operators as <Not specified>.

    Result: For example, when an Italian speaking visitor starts a chat, the operator sees Italian canned messages plus those messages with no language value.

    Tip: Subject , Keywords , and the message body should all be written in the same language.
    Note: If you are using the Auto Answers feature, the Language setting also determines which messages appear to visitors in Auto Answers.
  6. Type and format the message.
    • Messages are stored in HTML format and can be edited as HTML source as well.
    • Mark certain phrases or words as not translatable to prevent them from being translated when auto-translation is enabled.
    • You can also insert variables in the ${variable_name} format. For example, use the variable ${login.ChatName} to insert the operator's chat name into the canned message. Available variables:
      • ${chat.ChatUrl} - The URL of the chat from where the visitor started the chat session
      • ${chat.ChatName} - The name of the visitor as provided on the pre-chat form. If the First name field is available on the pre-chat form then this variable displays only the first name of the visitor.
      • ${chat.IsStarted} - Displays whether the chat was started
      • ${chat.Started} - Displays the date and time when the chat started
      • ${chat.IsAnswered} - Displays whether the chat was answered
      • ${chat.Answered} - Displays the date and time when the chat was first answered
      • ${chat.IsEnded} - Displays whether the chat is started
      • ${chat.Ended} - Displays the date and time when the chat ended
      • ${chat.CountryCode} - The two-digit code of the country where the visitor started the conversation
      • ${chat.RegionCode} - The region or ZIP code of the country where the visitor started the conversation
      • ${chat.City} - The city where the visitor started the conversation
      • ${chat.VisitEmailAddress} - Email address of the visitor as provided on the pre-chat form
      • ${chat.VisitPhone} Phone number of the visitor as provided on the pre-chat form
      • ${login.UserName} - The User Name of the agent as set on the Organization > Agents > Agent Information tab
      • ${login.Name} - The Agent Name of the agent as set on the Organization > Agents > Agent Information tab
      • ${login.EmailName} - The Email Name of the agent as set on the Organization > Agents > Email Settings tab
      • ${login.BestChatName} - The Chat Name of the agent. If this is unavailable, then the Agent Name of the agent.

    Result: The list of canned messages for an operator is filtered down to those canned messages that match the visitor's language. For example, when an Italian speaking visitor starts a chat, the operator sees Italian canned messages plus any canned message where the language is unknown <Not Specified>.

  7. Save your changes.

    Result: The canned message is made available to be used in response to incoming communications for the chosen technology (Chat, Email, SMS, or Twitter).

To arrange canned messages in folders, right click the root folder and click New Folder. Once you have folders, you can drag and drop messages between folders.

Announcements

Genesys DX/Bold360 End of Life: January 2024

The Genesys DX (Bold360) platform will end of life on January 31st, 2024. This difficult decision was announced in March, 2023.  

Genesys continues to make a strong commitment to Genesys Cloud, while tightening the portfolio to further accelerate feature growth on the platform. Part of that included bringing over key Genesys DX features to Genesys Cloud CX, such as Knowledge Optimizer that focuses on ease-of-use knowledge management. Digital only licenses for Genesys Cloud were also introduced late last year, which are suitable to those who are not looking for voice capabilities or who need agent seats that only feature support for digital channels. 

Details on the end of life timeline

As of January 31st, 2024, access to Genesys DX product interfaces and customer-deployed components stop to function. Users will no longer be able to log into product interfaces, and all of the boldchat/bold360/nanorep domains will become unavailable for use. If you are curious on what the code on your website related to this might look like and how to remove it, we encourage referencing this post on the DX community

After January 31st, 2024, admins will still be able to get access for an additional 30 days. This period is meant to allow for extracting the necessary data from the platform. Historical data extraction from your account will be available to retrieve by data extraction APIs (Bold360 APIs and Nanorep APIs).