Euro Front-End and Power BI Updates
Upcoming European Front-End Servers
We've just about completed testing of our European 1stream and Control servers, and those will be available for use in the coming weeks. This will initially be made available for new phone systems spun up in the London, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam datacenters.
After that we will begin migrating existing customers in those datacenters from the NA to the EU servers. As part of this you will need to access slightly different URLs, so we'll provide a document on how to prep for that directly to you via email in the coming weeks.
We'll communicate directly with impacted European partners as this date moves closer to ensure you're well aware of when the changes will impact you and your team.
This should drastically reduce latency for customers accessing the 1stream ecosystem in Europe, and we saw a marked improvement in speeds when we made this same change for Australia.
Updated Power BI Template
Requires 1stream Core or higher
We've updated the Power BI Desktop template so it now has a simple day of the week and hour interval slicer.
This should allow you to very quickly drill down into your weekend or "after hours" calls to see where the volume is coming from and where you may need to plug some gaps.
We highly recommend our Power BI template for any advanced reporting needs, as its ability to multi-select using the Ctrl key on your keyboard allows for much easier drill down than exporting our stock reports to Excel and managing the data that way.
Legacy "Sign in with Microsoft" Loop
In our recent post on Microsoft 365 Updates, we readded the UI which allowed you to use the built-in Microsoft 365 integration to sign in to the 3CX branded portal.
Unfortunately, we found that a permission was not properly required when provisioning accounts in the integration in the past, so you may end up in a login loop where it successfully logs you in but brings you right back to the login page.
You can either reprovision the integration or follow the Troubleshooting section at the bottom of the Simplified SSO Setup document to correct the permissions manually.
Quality of Life Changes and Bug Fixes
- The Monitoring > PBX Radar menu has been updated with a fresh look which should make problems more obvious to the eye. A bug was also corrected which caused some services to report down when they were otherwise functioning.
- When saving the Bulk Edit > Bulk Management tool in the Extensions menu, "An unknown error" would always occur. This was due to a frontend bug with the MPP Enabled field, and that has been corrected. The error did not actually impact saving functionality.
- We've corrected an issue with the Manage Import Profiles menu of the Progressive Dialer which would hide import profiles, so all should show now.
- A bug has been corrected with the Agent Custom Status Report which resulted in available time adding to 00:00:00 despite a non-0 sum. This returns correct data now.
- The 1s logo under extension values in the Extensions menu was not consistently showing for licensed users in certain cases. That has been corrected, and you can now reliably use that button to sync users and their license state to the 1stream portal.
- We've updated the Partners menu in the Control Portal to provide a bit more clarity to the resources available.
- There was a brief issue with fully custom SSL certificates at the phone system level where they were not applying correctly, that has been corrected.
FFotW: BrightGauge Integration
Available to 1stream Core licensed accounts and higher
We've covered our Power BI integration a few times now in these posts, but are you aware we also have a BrightGauge Integration? We can export your queue login and call summary information to OneDrive, and you can then use the OneDrive data source in BrightGauge to ingest this and potentially other reports into data sets then gauges.
An example of what this dashboard could look like is shown below; however you have full control to build whatever gauges you will find useful for your team.
See our article below for more information or book a call with our team to review setting this up for your instance.