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The Busy Times report provides a clear, an hour-by-hour graphical representation of your call volumes for each day, allowing giving a detailed breakdown of calls by type, for any particular each time slot selected. This report is ideal useful for identifying call traffic trends and very quickly highlights your busy days and timescan readily highlight your busiest periods, allowing you to more effectively plan your staffing requirements.

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On the Reports screen, select the Busy timesTimes report from the left-hand pane and click thethe Select this reportbutton button.

A new window will appear, where you can set the parameters of your report.

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Once you have set the reporting period, click on the Next button to set additional report parameters and options, or select the Finish button to run the report immediately.

Selecting the reporting entity

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If both a site and group have been selected, you can further limit the report's results to include only calls by involving a particular user, by selecting it that user from the drop-down list.

Once you have selected the scope of your report, click  click on the Next button to set additional report parameters and options. To , or to run the report immediately without doing so, click the click the Finish button.

Selecting the report filters

This option allows you to filter out certain calls from your results, by selecting the values of the parameters. You can limit the results of your report by choosing one or more of the following filters:

These filters allow you to be very specific, when deciding the call information you would like to display in the final report.If you do not want to select any filters, simply press theNextbutton to skip.

Please find a brief description of all filters below:

Account code

If you want to To produce a bill report consisting only of all chargeable calls that were made using a particular account code, enter this the account code in the field provided. 

To report on more than one account code, you can use separate each code using a comma to separate the entries.

Call type

This filter allows you to define the type of call you would like want to report on. If you would like to report on all calls, leave the default setting as , in terms of where the call originated and where it was delivered, e.g. incoming, outgoing, internal, etc.  To report on all types of call, set this to All calls.

If you want to report on one call type in particular, expand the drop-down list and select from the available options.

Carrier

If you use more than one carrier, you can choose which carrier's calls to report on. To report on all calls from all carriers, leave the default setting as All carrierslimit the results to include only calls that were made using a specific carrier.

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CLI

The Caller Calling Line Identification (CLI) is a phone number that calls your organisation. This is sometimes withheld by the person making the call.You may choose to report on calls from a particular CLI or from numbers beginning with a particular CLI. For example, for the telephone number of the remote caller in an incoming call scenario.

You can report on calls that originate from a specific CLI or those whose CLI matches a particular pattern of digits. For example, to report on all incoming calls from Tri-Line, you would could enter 02072652600.

This filter accepts the comparison operators ! and * (e.g. You can use the ! symbol to explicitly exclude a CLI from the report's results, and/or the

Cost

If you want to add a filter for call costs, type in the cost you wish to defineYou can define a cost filter to include calls above or below specific values by entering your criteria, as shown below. :

This filter allows you to You can specify a range (-) or use comparison operators (cost range by using the 

Destination

If you want to filter calls to a specific, known destination, you can type the name of the destination in the field text box provided. This filter accepts the comparison operators ! and * symbols for excluding values and specifying partial matches, respectively.

For example, if you want wanted to exclude all calls to France, you could enter

Dialled number

To filter calls to a specific dialled number, type the number that was dialled it in the text box provided. The dialled number can be a number that you dial out, or a DDI number within your organisation that someone dials in to get to a particular extensionis defined as the number that is dialled (in the case of an outbound call), or the DDI number that the remote party dialled to reach a particular extension or group (in the case of an inbound call).

To filter calls to a specific area, a partial number may can be entered (e.g. 0033, for  for calls to France). 

This filter accepts the comparison operators ! and * (e.g. to exclude calls to 0207 265, enter !0207265* ).You can use the ! symbol to explicitly exclude a dialled number from the report's results, and/or the 

Duration

To filter calls above or below a particular duration, enter the number of seconds and the relevant symbol in the box provided. This filter allows you to specify a range (-) or use comparison operators (>, <, ! and *).

desired duration in seconds.

You can specify a duration range by using the 

In the above example, the filter report will look for return only calls longer than 1800 seconds (30 minutes). Alternatively, you may want to exclude calls below a certain threshold (e.g. below 3 seconds).

LCR code

If you are using To filter your results to include only calls that used a Least Cost Routing (LCR) , you may want to filter your results the by LCR code, in order to check a bill from your LCR provider. To do this, enter the LCR code enter it in the text box provided.

This filter accepts the comparison operators ! and * (e.g. to exclude a specific LCR code, add the code with the required operators !162*)

You can use the ! symbol to explicitly exclude a LCR code from the report's results, and/or the 

Response

This option allows you to filter calls based on their response time.The results will be filtered according to the , measured in seconds. Specify the desired response time threshold that you define in the text box provided field. The threshold you specify will be measured in seconds.

In the above example, the search results will display calls that have a response time above greater than 10 seconds. 

You can specify a response time range by using the 

Start time

This option allows you to filter calls based on the start time of the call , which is basically the time of day the call started. Enter your preferred Specify the start time in the field text box provided , using the following format the hh:mm:ss format.

For example, if you want your results to include only calls logged that began after 10 a.m. onlyam, you need to could enter 10:00:00 in the Start time field, as shown below:

Trunk access code

If you want to filter your results by a trunk access code, enter this in the field provided.  For example, to exclude all calls with access code 9, add !9 in the filed your telephone system uses trunk access codes to connect calls using specific channels, you can limit your report's results to include only calls made using those codes. Specify the trunk access code in the text box provided.

This filter accepts the comparison operators ! and *.

You can use the ! symbol to explicitly exclude a trunk access code from the report's results, and/or the 

Selecting the report options

This section allows enables you to further narrow down your report results, by excluding certain types of calls or sorting the . It also allows you to sort the report's results in a particular manner.The filters are fairly self-explanatory. For example, if you would like to exclude weekend calls from the report, simply tick the option to exclude weekend calls. If you would like to ignore missed calls shorter than a specific duration, simply enter the duration in the box.

Exclude weekends

If you would like to To exclude weekend calls from the search your report's results, simply select the tick-box to exclude weekend calls.

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Exclude transfers

Select this option if you would like to exclude transfers from the search results. For example if you want to see only how well calls were answered when first presented, you would choose to exclude transfers.

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Ignore missed calls shorter than

If you would like to exclude To exclude transferred calls from your report's results, select the

Ignore short missed calls

Missed calls below a certain duration can sometimes pollute the meaning of a report's results. To exclude such short calls from your report, enter the duration below which you'd like to ignore calls. If you would like to exclude very short calls (a duration threshold in the text box provided, e.g. to ignore calls below 3 seconds), simply enter the number enter 

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This section allows you to choose the output media format of your completed report. To select the desired format, click on the drop-down list and choose from the available options: Web, PDF, Excel, CSV and XML. The formats available are 

More details about each report format are available in the Setting the report format section above.

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Creating the report

When you have chosen selected a reporting period , and are happy with your selections, you have two options:

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and have chosen any filters and options, you can either run the report immediately by clicking on the

If you click on theRun nowbutton, the report will run instantly in your chosen format.

If you want to schedule the report to run at a later time, follow the instruction given in the Schedule a report section.

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The report's results

When selecting WEB as the output format, this report will appear as below:-

Below is an example of this report's output in

The large, dark red dots represent your busiest periods, whereas the small, green dots represent quieter periods; by hovering your cursor over a particular dot a tooltip will be displayed, showing the volume of calls for that dot's time period.

The time slot data is also displayed in tabular form, each value being a hyperlink which, if clicked, will drill down into a detailed list of calls for that time slot.

As with all reports , the header produced by TIM Plus, each page of the report includes the following information:

• the report's title
• the date and time of that the report was generated
• the name of the report, if applicable

The WEB format allows for complete flexibility when viewing any report. All headers are clickable, allowing you to re-arrange the report layout in seconds, to sort the calls in ascending or decending order based on the header clicked. To view details of any filters or selection parameters used in creating this report, click on About this report on

The larger, darker red dots represent your busier periods, while the smaller greener dots, the quieter periods.
This report is truly interactive. To see how many calls for any period, simply float over it to see more details. Also, to see more details for any of the time slots, click on one of them, and details of all calls contained within this period are shown as follows:-

All calls are shown on the front page and clear colour coded tabs allow you to easily sort the results by call type (e.g. inbound, outbound etc.).
If you would like to go back and view any report for a larger section of the organisation, click on the appropriate link in the breadcrumb, as shown below:-, you can review any filters and options that have been applied to the report.

To modify your report to cover a larger organisational scope, click on an element of the breadcrumb as shown below:

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