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Integrating Clarify/Dovetail with your group chat app

September 19, 2014 Here at Dovetail, we’ve evolved our use of group chat over the years. We used to use Campfire, then went to Hipchat, and now we use Slack. Our dev and support teams are in Slack all day, and I find it much more enjoyable than email. I’ve noticed that the amount of email we deal with now is considerably less. It’s integrated with Github, so we get notifications on Github issues and code commits. And, of course, we post messages based on business rules from Clarify/Dovetail.  For example, a message is auto-posted when a case is dispatched and when it is accepted. As a group, we often discuss a case to help the case owner get it resolved. And this discussion happens in our group chat.  Slack really is pretty awesome. Regardless of which group communication tool you use, it’s…

Support by Group Chat

June 9, 2008 One of the more interesting ideas I've seen kicking around the blogosphere is support by group chat. We use Campfire here at Dovetail as a group chat application, and we love it. It allows all of us to share information, even when we may be in different cities, and working different schedules. The chat history is saved, so its easy to catch up on past conversations. Campfire also allows us to easily upload and share files and screen shots. Overall, its been a great addition to our team's communication. (On a related note - we've shown examples in the past about sending Rulemanager notifications to Campfire here and here.) I like the idea of allowing customers to jump in and join the Campfire conversation. Probably have a room specific for this purpose. Not only would it allow interactions between agents…

Digsby

April 10, 2008 I don't do too much Instant Messaging (IM) lately. Twitter and Campfire have replaced a lot of what I used to use IM for. That said IM is not dead.   I still need to have private conversations with people that are not into Twitter or hanging out around my team's campfire. I have contacts across many different IM formats. I have been using Trillian for years and found that while it works the UI is clunky and their new version Astra is taking forever to get out the door. Along comes Digsby and I am in love.       Digsby is intuitive to configure and supports a plethora of Instant Message formats, Email protocols, and Social Networks.          Only thing I see missing is IRC and Campfire support.   What I really like about Digsby is their customer aware web site. The download and install experience flows…

Having a voicemail create a case in our Dovetail/Clarify system

March 7, 2008 We recently moved into new offices here at Dovetail, and with our new offices came a new phone system.One of the features of the phone system is that we can get an email whenever we get a voicemail. The email contains a WAV file of the actual voicemail recording. This allows us to easily be notified of, and receive voicemails, even when we're out of the office.The same rule applies to voicemails left on our support mailbox. So, if one of our customers calls our support line and leaves a voicemail message, we can get an email alerting us, along with the WAV file of the message.This is all well and good.But many of us are not on email all the time, and we have other notifications setup using Rulemanager, such as notifications to our mobile devices, and notifications via…

More Campfire Integration

February 13, 2008 Kevin Miller recently had a recent post talking about how we have notifications from our Clarify/Dovetail system show up in Campfire.   When a case is dispatched to our support queue, we get a notification in Campfire. That tends to be where we all "hang out", so its a perfect place for group notifications.   Kevin had another great idea today that we should also post a message when the case is accepted by someone, so that we know someone has picked it up and is working it.   A quick business rule:   Object Type: Case Rule Name/Description: Campfire notification upon case accept Start Event: Accept Cancel Events:  Conditions: [Current Owner Workgroup] = Support Action Title: Notify Campfire Action Type: Command Line  Start Action: 0 minutes From: Event Creation Using: Elapsed Time Repeat: Never Message:   c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe C:\repo\DovetailAutomation\focus\campfire\classic-campfire.rb " [Object Type] [Object ID]  has been accepted by [Logger]. : http://www.dovetailsoftware.com/fcclient/console/console.asp?command=casebyid&param1=[Object ID] "…