Hi Shai,
Just confirming, the Participants variable is set to External, as shown in your clip above.
In regards to the scenario,
The Topic is set up to recognise Phrase xyz, with Participant = External
1. An email is received from the customer - no Phrase xyz so topic not detected
2. The email is replied to by our internal agent, with Phrase xyz but Participant = External so topic not detected
3. The customer then replies back to the agents, with NO Phrase xzy but the topic is still detected (even though it was in the text from the agent, not the customer).
Any help you can give will be most appreciated :-)
Thanks,
Lee.
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Lee Smith
Senior Business Analyst Contract
Genesis Energy
lee.smith@genesisenergy.co.nz------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 05-19-2025 11:43
From: Shai Alon
Subject: Topics -External participant setting picking up topic on previous replies in emails
Hi Lee,
Just to confirm: is the topic only defined to detect customers' phrases, as below?

And the agent sent an email with PhraseA (topic should be detected), but when the customer replied to the same email, the email's body contained that PhraseA sent from the Agent, and was recognized as a topic, although it wasn't written by the customer himself. Right?
Shai
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Shai Alon
Staff Software Engineer
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