Call queues and away status

[stuart.rendall]

I have discovered that if all members of a call queue have marked themselves as 'away' on the PBX using call assistant, incoming calls are still placed on the queue and wait for max queue wait time before getting passed on to the next stage.

This does not seem to happen if the extension is in the queue but is not registered.

It would be better if either the queue recognised 'away status' as unavailable rather than busy, or the 'away status button' on the call assistant logged the extension out of the queue as well.

I am also confused about the meaning of 'ring timeout' on the queue when there is only one queue member.

 

[SY]

You can use login/logout button to control agent's availability in the queue.
if nobody will be logged in then call will go to No Answer destination.
Away status can be used by queue agent to "wrap up" previous call without forwarding all awaiting calls to the No Answer destination.

 

[stuart.rendall]

You can use login/logout button to control agent's availability in the queue.
if nobody will be logged in then call will go to No Answer destination.
Away status can be used by queue agent to "wrap up" previous call without forwarding all awaiting calls to the No Answer destination.

Thanks for that, I couldn't think of a good reason for it.
However, I notice that if the extension is marked as available and logged into queues and then 'not registered' the queue will ignore it and send calls to No Answer destination,
but
if the extension is marked as away, left logged into queues and then 'not registered', incoming calls get held in the queue.