If you have set up an auto assignment(either round robin based on active agent or round robin based on active agents with load balance), then you would want to make sure that the agent’s availability is set right.  Agent availability is applicable only for agents who are associated to the category which has “Auto assignment” enabled.

Each agent participating in auto assignment, must set their availability. In addition to this, agents with 'Manage Agents' permission can also set availability for other agents from the agent list or details page.

 Setting your own availability

Click on the profile icon to view the status toggle as shown below. Enable to set yourself available for auto assignments.

Setting other agent’s availability

Setting availability through agent list page

1. Navigate to Manage >> Agents >> Active{tab)

2. The final column in the Agent list page indicates the agent’s availability

1. Available indicates that the agent is actively available for the auto assignments and ticket assignments.  

2. Unavailable indicates that the agent is unavailable for the auto assignments and ticket assignments.  

3. Not applicable indicates that the agent is not associated to any category which has auto assignment enabled.

Note: You will not view “Agent Status” column if none of categories have auto assignment enabled.

3. Click on the “Available” button to make the agent unavailable.

4. When you make an agent unavailable you can

   1. Retain all the current tickets which are assigned to the agents.

   2. Unassign all the new tickets (tickets in default status)

   3. Reassign all the new tickets (tickets in default status)

Setting agent availability through agent's detail page

Agent’s availability can also be changed from agent detail page as shown below.