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Creating a case from an email

4 Tasks

20 mins

Visible to: All users
Intermediate
Pega Customer Service '24.2
Conversational Channels
Email
English

Scenario

Your customer, U+ Bank, wants to speed up email interactions for address changes by pre-populating cases with the correct values. For address change emails, the bank wants the email channel to start the Address Change Request case and populate the case with relevant data from the email.

To support this scenario, you need to update the MySupport email channel.

The following table provide the credentials you need to complete the challenge:

Role User name Password
Email client user Customer1 customer1
Customer service representative CSCSR password123!
Customer Service Application Administrator CSAppAdmin password123!

Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Map email content

In App Studio, configure the My Support Channel to map email content to case properties.

Task 2: Configure a routing rule

In App Studio, in the My Support Channel, configure a routing rule to create a case when an address change request is detected.

Task 3: Run a test in the console

In App Studio, use the test console in the My Support Channel to send an email requesting an address change.

Task 4: Run a test using the email client

In the email client, send an email requesting an address change. In the Interaction Portal, check that case properties are populated from the email content.

Use the following email content to send the test emails.

From (email): [email protected]

To (email): [email protected]

From (name): Sara Connor

Subject: Moving to a new house

Message: enter the following email content:

Hello,

I would like to inform you that I have a new address:

222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX 75039, USA.

Regards, Sara

 

You must initiate your own Pega instance to complete this Challenge.

Initialization may take up to 5 minutes so please be patient.

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Map email content

  1. Log in to App Studio as the Customer Service Application Administrator:
    1. In the User name field, enter CSAppAdmin.
    2. In the password field, enter password123!.
  2. In the navigation pane of App Studio, click Channels.
  3. On the Channels landing page, click My Support to update the Channel configuration.
  4. In the My Support Channel, click the Behavior tab.
  5. In the Suggested cases section, to the right of the Address change case, click the Gear icon to open the Address change Case Type.
  6. In the Address change dialog box, click the Mapping tab.
    This tab shows the mapping of entities (from email content) to case properties.
  7. Click Add mapping to configure the following mappings:
    Address case mapping entities to case properties
  8. Click Submit.
  9. Click Save.

2 Configure a routing rule

  1. In the My Support Channel, go to the Intelligent routing section.
  2. If there is an existing rule for Address Change, click the trash icon to remove it, then click Save.
    remove existing rule
  3. To add the new rule, click Add condition.
  4. In the Action list, select Create case.
  5. In the Value list, select Address Change.
    Tip: In a value field like Action or Value, you can also place the cursor in the field and press the Down arrow key to select a valid value from the list.
  1. Set the When condition to NLP >Topic is equal to Address Change.
    Routing condition to create a case
  2. Click Save.

3 Run a test in the console

  1. In the upper-right corner, click Test to test the new email channel configuration.
  2. Enter the email content:
    From (email): [email protected]
    To (email): [email protected]
    From (name): Sara Connor
    Subject: Moving to a new house
    Message: enter the following email content:
    Hello,
    My customer number is: 12457890.
    I would like to inform you that I have a new address:
    222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX 75039, USA.
    Regards, Sara
  3. Click Test. The test email evaluation is displayed.
  4. Observe that the email creates an Address Change case and that the results show the entities that can be used to populate case properties.
    Create case, console test
     
  5. Click Close to dismiss the test email evaluation.

4 Run a test using the email client

  1. Send a test email that requests an address change. Use the email content in the Scenario section to create a test email.
    1. Open the exercise system landing page, and then click Application Switcher > Web Email.
    2. Log in as the Email client user with user name Customer1 and password password.
    3. In the left pane, click Mail to access the Inbox.
    4. In the header, click Write mail to compose a new email.
    5. Enter the email content from the previous task.
    6. Click Send message.
  2. Log in to Pega Customer Service as a Customer Service Representative:
    1. In the User name field, enter cscsr.
    2. In the password field, enter password123!.
  3. In the left navigation, click My open emails and then click Get Next Email.

  4. The Interaction Portal opens the case and displays the request from Sara Connor
    Note: It can take up to two minutes for the case to get created after you send the email.

    The email received from Sara Connor is displayed in the right pane. The Email Summary highlights key points from Sara's email and shows suggested actions and replies for the CSR. The email shows the color-coded entities that the Email Bot has identified.
    The Address Change case is displayed in the left pane. The entities identified in the email content are used to fill the associated properties in the Address Change case.

    Case opens preloaded
     
  5. In the Email pane, click the Expand icon to view the text analysis and the entities extracted by the email bot. Review the mappings.
    Email utilities pane
    Note: If an email has attached documents, the Email Bot can scan those documents (using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)) to identify other entities that map to case properties.
  6. Complete the Address Change case.

    The street address, city, state and postal code are identified correctly and added to the case properties. Optional: If any other address items are incorrect, you can highlight the text and select the appropriate property.

    1. Click Submit. The Address Change case is created and assigned a case number.
    2. Click Done. The case is submitted successfully.
    3. Click Wrap-up, and then click Submit to complete the case.


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