[Asterisk-Users] combining calls from 2 queues

[Johann]

My company is facing a similar situation.  The agents/queue system in 
Asterisk 1.0.x is badly designed to meet such needs.  Temporary I am 
working around the problem by giving each employee that answers a call 
one AgentID.  I then set them up as callback agents.  They are then 
members of both queues.  This will at least prevent the brain dead ACD 
from sending them multiple calls for each queue.  The distributing 
strategies however only look at their status with the current queue.  
There are issues with the wrapuptime as well and possibly some race 
conditions.  The users have reported some odd behavior that I haven't 
been able to exactly duplicate(ie some agents waiting minutes to get a 
call that is on hold while they are available).

For example, using leastrecent for both queues.  An agent that answers 
multiple back to back calls for the helpdesk queue does not get credit 
for it, when determining who least recently answered the incoming isp 
queue call.  At least if they are on a call from the helpdesk queue, 
they will not get a isp queue call.

The agentcallbacklogin() unforuantely hangs up once they login so you 
are stuck with the keeping them all as static agents on both queues or 
attempting to build a menu that will allow them to add/remove themselves 
dynamically from each queue.  They would still require at least 3 
logins(agent login, agent logout, and queue management menu).

Message me off list for further details.  We may be able to work 
together to come up with a workaround that would serve both are needs 
better.

--johann

rkb at i.frys.com wrote:

>We have 1 queue called helpdesk and are setting up a second one called isp. 
>The helpdesk queue is for internal support calls and isp for our ISP customer
>calls.  Both of these queues will be directed to the same agents (helpdesk
>phone extensions).
>
>We want to have the separate queues for tracking purposes but the queued calls
>need to be ordered and answered as if there was only one queue.  For example,
>if there are 3 calls in the helpdesk queue and 1 call in the isp queue, if a
>new call comes in, no matter which queue, it should be 5th in the queue.
>
>e.g.,
>helpdesk 3 calls
>       1   Zap/23-1
>       2   Zap/12-1
>       4   Zap/20-1
>
>isp      2 calls
>       3   Zap/22-1
>       5   Zap/18-1
>
>Is this type of setup possible and if so, what needs to be done in the config
>files to accomplish this?
>
>Thanks
>Ron Bergin
>
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