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How to Use Personal Chat

At any time during your working session, you can send a Personal Chat message to your supervisor or another member of your team. The use of Personal Chat does not affect your operations with service interactions in any way.


Overview of Personal Chat


How to Send Personal Chat Messages

There are two ways to send Personal Chat messages:

  1. From within the Directory
  2. From the Personal Chats section of the Chat Center.


From the Directory

  • Select the desired contact from the Directory.
  • Clicking the Chat Personal-Chat-New-Message-Icon-50.PNG icon next to the contact's name in the Directory will launch a new chat.
  • To send a message, type in the Text Input Field area, then press the Enter key or click on the Send the messageGroup-Chat-Send-Message-50.PNG icon.


Chat from within the Directory while working in other areas


From the Chat Center

  • To access the Chat Center, click on the Group-Chat-Call-Center-Icon-50.PNG icon.
  • Next, go to the Personal Chats section and click on the + icon to bring up the Directory.
Choose Select from Directory


  • From the Select Agent for Chat directory, search for the contact you would like to message, click on their icon, then click the Select button.


Select the user to initiate chat


  • To send a message, type in the Text Input Field area, then press the Enter key or click on the Send the messageGroup-Chat-Send-Message-50.PNG icon.


Additional Features of Personal Chat

  • For added organization, it is possible to filter messages by day, week, month, or all.
  • Messages will appear with a timestamp in the chat transcript area above the Text Input Field.


Starring a Message

It is possible to bookmark important, individual messages within a chat by clicking the Star Personal-Chat-Star-50.PNG icon. When you star a message, it becomes pinned to the area right of the chat in the Chat Center. Please note: You can only star received messages, not sent ones.


To star a message, follow these steps:

  1. Find the message.
  2. Click the Star Personal-Chat-Star-50.PNG.
  3. The star will have changed from a light color Personal-Chat-Star-50.PNG to a dark color Personal-Chat-Marked-Star-50.PNG.


From here, you will see the starred message appear in the area to the right of the chat.


Example of a starred message


When you click on the starred message, it will act as a shortcut, bringing the message to the top of the chat area.


Starred messages act as bookmarks within a Personal Chat


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