WFM Web Options
From the Options tab you can modify the default WFM Web configuration settings. The tab contains eleven sections. The options in each of these sections are described below.
Adherence Section
RefreshTime
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: 10
Valid Value: Any positive integer
Dependencies: None
Specifies the amount of time, in seconds, between updates to the real-time agent adherence data displayed in WFM Web.
AgentBidding Section
AllowBidding
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Enables agent bidding as part of Schedule Bidding. See WFM Web for Supervisors Help for details.
AgentPreferences Section
AllowPreferences
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Controls whether or not Preferences will appear in the agent part of WFM Web.
AgentSchedule Section
AccessLevel
Type: Optional
Default Value: 2
Valid Values: 1, 2, 3
Dependencies: None
Controls which filtering options appear in the Other Schedules view and how much data an agent can see. (The option People I work with is always present.) Enter a valid value to specify which other options are available:
- 1—My Team
- 2—My Team and My Site
- 3—My Team, My Site, and My Business Unit
AllowAccessToOthersSchedule
Type: Optional
Default Value: true
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, agents can see other agents’ schedules in the Other Schedule tab of the WFM Web for Agents Schedule view.
AllowAccessToCarpools
Type: Optional
Default Value: true
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, agents can access Shared Transportation functionality—in the WFM Web for Agents My Schedule tab Sidebar, and other locations. If set to false or absent from the configuration, all carpool functionality is disabled for this installation of WFM 8.1.
AllowInsertExceptions
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, agents can access the Add Exception button—and its underlying functionality—in the WFM Web for Agents My Schedule tab.
CommitAgentInsertedExceptions
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: Enabled only if AllowInsertExceptions is set to true
If this option value is set to true, exceptions that are inserted by an agent are committed to the schedule or inserted, pending approval by a supervisor.
AgentTimeOff Section
AllowEnterFullDayStartEnd
Type: Optional
Default Value: true
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Set this option value to false to disable an agent’s ability to specify the start and end of a full-day time off. Omit this option or set the value to true to enable that ability.
AllowEnterPaidTime
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Controls whether an agent can specify a the number of paid hours to deduct, when creating or editing a full-day time-off request in the Time Off Request view.
AllowTimeOffPlanner
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Controls whether or not the time off planner appears in the agent part.
AllowWaitList
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Controls whether the Wait-List check box—and the option that it represents—appears in the Inserting New Time Off Items dialog box when an agent is requesting time off.
SeparateStartEndForEachDay
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, an agent can define a separate (and different) start and end times for each full day in a new time-off request that spans multiple days. If this option value is omitted or set to false, an agent can define only identical start and end times for all full days in a new time-off request that spans multiple days.
AgentTrading Section
AllowNoComments
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, agents do not have the ability to enter comments while working with trades.
AllowAccessToOthersSchedule
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: AllowScheduleTrading
If this option value is set to true, agents can see other agents’ schedules in the Schedule tab of the WFM Web for Agents Trading view.
AllowScheduleTrading
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
If this option value is set to true, trading functionality is enabled for agents. If set to false, trading functionality is disabled and Trading is not available in the WFM Web for Agents menu.
TradeOnlyInsideTeam
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: true
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: AllowScheduleTrading, AllowAccessToOthersSchedule
Controls the type of schedules that an agent can see. If this option value is set to true, agents see schedules only of other agents who are in the same team. If set to false, agents see schedules of all agents who belong to the same site.
Client Section
SOAPTimeout
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: 60
Valid Value: Any positive integer
Dependencies: None
Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the response from WFM Server before timing out.
Identity Section
ApplicationType
Type: Optional in a Framework 8.x environment.
Default Value: WFMWeb
Valid Value: WFMWeb
Dependencies: None
Specifies Workforce Management component for which this application is used. Configure this optioin only if you are using an application of the type ThirdPartyServer.
Log Section
all
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: stdout
Valid Values: log output types, such as stdout, stderr, syslog, network, <filename>
Dependencies: None
Specifies that log events of all levels, Standard, Trace, and Debug, are to be sent to the listed outputs.
buffering
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Specifies whether system file buffering is turned on (true) or off (false).
debug
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: stdout
Valid Values: log output types, such as stdout, stderr, syslog, network, <filename>
Dependencies: None
Specifies that log events of the Debug level are to be sent to the listed outputs.
expire
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Values: false, <number>, <number> file, <number> day
Dependencies: None
Sets the expiration mode for old segments. The number to be stored cannot be less than 1 file or 1 day or more than 100 files or 100 days. A value of No indicates that files do not expire.
segment
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Values: false, <number>, <number>KB, <number>MB, <number>Hr
Dependencies: None
Sets the maximum size (in KB, MB, or hours) of the log file segment, after which a new segment is created. The default size is in KB. The number (<number>) cannot be less than 100 KB or less than one hour. A value of No indicates no segmentation of the log file.
standard
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: stdout
Valid Values: log output types, such as stdout, stderr, syslog, network, <filename>
Dependencies: None
Specifies that log events of the Standard level are to be sent to the listed outputs. For centralized logging, use a value of network. You can use a local file name as the value, stdout, or network.
trace
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: stdout
Valid Values: log output types, such as stdout, stderr, syslog, network, <filename>
Dependencies: None
Specifies that log events of the Trace level are to be sent to the listed outputs. For centralized logging, use network. You can use a local file name as the value, stdout, or network.
verbose
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: all
Valid Values: all, trace, standard, none, yes (= all), no (= none)
Dependencies: None
Filters the output of log messages, based on their assigned priority.
- all—Enables output of all messages to the log file
- Trace—Enables informational and error messages and disables debug messages
- Standard—Enables error messages only and disables informational and debug messages
- None—Disables all messages.
Options Section
CustomActivities
Type: Optional
Default Value: none
Valid Value: a text string up to 255 characters
Dependencies: The ShowAllActivities option value must be set to false.
Controls the display of the selected agent in the Main, Schedule Details, and Printing views). When this option is enabled, the custom value is displayed against the agents schedule, rather than any of the activities for which they are scheduled. This value can be set to null, which displays nothing in Web for Agents.
- If this option value is not defined or its value is empty (no text), then WFM Web displays a list of all activities for which the agent is scheduled.
- If this option value is a text string, WFM Web displays that text string.
- If the ShowAllActivities option value is set to true, this option has no effect; WFM Web displays a list of all activities for which the agent has skills.
- If the ShowAllActivities option value is set to false, the value replaces the list of all activities, for which the agent has skills.
HideNames
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Specifies whether or not agent names are displayed in the Adherence views.
HideTerminatedAgents
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Specifies whether or not WFM Web excludes agents whose termination date has passed. To exclude these agents, set this opiton value to true. If you want to view terminated agents, set this option value to false.
NameOrder
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: 1
Valid Value: 1, 2, 3
Dependencies: None
Determines how WFM Web presents agent names.
- 1—First name is presented first.
- 2—Last name is presented first.
- 3—Last name is presented first and is separated from first name with a comma.
NoPerformanceInSchedule
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Controls whether or not target selection and performance data retrieval is automatic in the Schedule Intra-Day view. It can be useful in improving the WFM performance in some situations. If this option value is set to false (the default), target selection and performance data retrieval is automatic. If set to true, the user must explicitly select a target for performance data, or else no performance data is retrieved.
OpenHoursCellColor
Type: Optional
Default Value: FFCC00 (hot yellow)
Valid Value: Any standard hex code value for a color. For example, D3D3D3 is light gray.
Dependencies: None
Specifies the color of the background in the opening hours cells of Forecast views. The default value applies if you omit this option.
PageCharSet
Type: Optional
Default Value: No default value
Valid Value: Any standard character set value. For example, enter x-sjis for the Japanese character set.
Dependencies: None
Specifies the character set that every page in WFM Web employs. If empty, no character set is specified.
ShowAllActivities
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Specifies how the Daily Schedule pane is displayed in WFM Web for Agents. Set this option value to false to have only the agent’s scheduled activities displayed. Set it to true to create a display containing all possible activities for that agent, whether scheduled or not.
See the option CustomActivities for related functionality.
Table: The affect of ShowAllActivities settings on CustomActivities
| Statistics | Definition |
|---|---|
| true | any value |
| false | empty |
| false | text |
Reports Section
Charset
Type: Optional
Default Value: No default value
Valid Values: Any standard code page value. For example, enter cp1257 for a Baltic code page.
Dependencies: None
Specifies the code page to be used for fonts in generated reports. If empty, code page 1252, Latin 1, is used.
Font
Type: Optional
Default Value: No default value
Valid Value: Any font name that exists on the computer used to generate reports.
Dependencies: None
Specifies the font name to be used in on the computer used to generated WFM reports.
x-FontPath
Type: Optional
Default Value: No default value
Valid Value: Physical path
Dependencies: None
Physical directory path where the font resides (as specified above in Reports/Font).
OwnerCaption
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: No default value
Valid Value: Any string
Dependencies: None
Provides the default value for the report header. You can change this value in the Header field on the first window of any Report Wizard.
OwnerVisible
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Provides the default value for the Show Header check box in the first page of all Report Wizards.
PageLimit
Type: Optional
Default Value: 0
Valid Value: 0 and up
Dependencies: None
Specifies the maximum number of pages a normal report can contain. If this number is exceeded, report generation is cancelled. Values less than 2 specify no limit.
PageLimitForCSV
Type: Optional
Default Value: 0
Valid Value: 0 and up
Dependencies: None
Specifies the maximum number of pages that a CSV-friendly report can contain. If this number is exceeded, report generation is cancelled. Values less than 2 specify no limit.
PathToAutoGeneratedReports
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: None
Valid Value: a valid and accessible network path
Dependencies: None
Specifies the network path for storing generated reports. If this value is not set, then generated reports are lost (not stored at all).
RevertDiffCalculation
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: 0, false, no
Valid Value: 0, false, no, 1, true, yes
Dependencies: None
By default, the Difference column in the Contact Center Performance and Workforce Performance reports is calculated as the Scheduled or Forecasted value minus the Actual value. Set this option to 1 (true) if you want the Difference column to be calculated as the Actual value minus the Scheduled or Forecasted value.
ServerURL
Type: Optional
Default Value: No default value
Valid Value: URL
Dependencies: None
A URL for the location of the WFM Web that is used as the reports server. For more information, see Installing WFM Web as Report Server.
ShowActualHeadcount
Type: Mandatory
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Dependencies: None
Applies to the Contact Center Performance Report and the Workforce Performance Report. If this option value is set to false, the report displays the Actual Number of Agents that were collected by Data Aggregator in the wm_agents_in option (logged in agents). If set to true, the report displays the Actual Headcount, which is the wm_agent_minutes option value divided by 15.
For example, if 1 agent is logged in but works only 14 minutes per timestep, the headcount equals 0.93. Dependencies: None
ShowSSGonFirstPageOnly
Type: Optional
Default Value: false
Valid Value: true, false
Dependencies: None
Set this option value to true to disable repeated display of the Select Schedule State Groups and Schedule States section on each page of all reports. If disabled (set to true) the report will display the complete list once, and then never repeat it.