Matt,
This thread is a few months old. Hopefully you've found a solution that works for you.
I've recently had a similar ask from my organization for one of our queues. Rather than a Skill/Bullseye routing combination, the approach I used was Preferred Agent routing. I check my criteria in my inbound flows (i.e. DNIS, etc.) and if required, use MakeListAgentScorePair to build my list of agents, and then set the timeout amount within the Queue settings.
A few caveats:
- unlike assigning Skills, which can be easily done by anyone with permissions, updates to the pair list need to be made in Architect. The may not be practical for all orgs.
- I'm only dealing with 4 agents, but I imagine a large group of agents could easily become unwieldy.
- the timeout setting applies even if all preferred agents are offline. This could cause unwanted delays if you only have normal/backup staff logged in at a particular time.
I hadn't considered using a separate Skill (we already have another Skill for the Queue) - but thinking it through, it might be a better approach than what I did. I'd love to hear what you finally settled on and how it's been working for you.
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Peter DeMarco
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-08-2025 12:36
From: Matt Asselin
Subject: Skill Based Routing based on DNIS
Hi!
I have a unique case where a team is requesting calls coming to a specific number to be routed to a set group of people if one of them is available and if not go to everyone in the queue. Is this possible with Skills?
Basically, Customer calls 800-555-5555 - Genesys assigns the skill to the call and then gets routed to the people with the skill, if no one is available it goes into the main Queue for that department.
Do I have to setup a separate queue for it and have it route through that first or can I assign Skills to the existing main queue and have that skill be assigned to try to go to the specific people first?
Let me know if none of this makes sense.
Thank you!
#Routing(ACD/IVR)
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Matt Asselin
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