Compliance Tools

Learn about the compliance tools used to restrict contact attempts. The compliance tools include the following:

• Attempt Rules
• Custom Time Zones
• Location Rules
• Custom Rules
• External Pre-Dial Validation Rules
• Contact Times
• Contact Dates

Related documentation:

• How Outbound works
• Get started with CX Contact

Attempt Rules

Use the Attempt Rules option to specify certain conditions that, when met, suppress a contact attempt. The following conditions can make up an Attempt Rule:

Required	Indicate whether the rule is Required. If a rule is Required, CX Contact will apply it to all new and existing campaigns, even ones that are currently running. If a rule is not Required, it is considered an Optional rule and must be manually applied to all applicable campaigns. You do this when you create or modify a new campaign template or campaign group. See the instructions below.
Priority	Set the priority of this rule. If you have multiple rules the priority value denotes the order in which the rules will be applied. A lower priority value indicates a higher priority, with 1 being the highest priority.
Rule Scope	Specify if the rule should be applied at the Tenant level or at the Campaign Group level.
Do Not Contact if	Fill in the values for the contact attempt rule. For example, Do not contact if 4 Outbound attempts have been made in the last 5 hours. Select Today when you want to count the attempts made today (after the last midnight) and select In the last when you you want to count attempts made in during a specific time.
Count By > Call Results	Define the attempt rule by call result status. By default, the following 12 call results are pre-selected. Busy No Answer Answering Machine Fax Detected Overflowed Abandoned Dropped Dropped No Answer Silence Answer Wrong Party Wrong Number Refer to the Call Results table on the Delivery and Retry Options page for a description of each call result.
Count By > Disposition Codes	Define the attempt rule by Disposition Code. For details refer to the Treatments based on Disposition Codes section in the Delivery and Retry Options page and the Dispositions section in the Administrator's Guide.
Contact Results	Select the call results that should be included as part of the Attempt Rules definition.
Count Attempts Using	Indicate whether to count previous attempts only: To the same Client ID. To the same Device. To the same Client ID/Device combination - for example, if two people share the same phone number but have different accounts, this option allows you to control attempts for each person. Note: When Device or ClientID/Device is selected, additional options will be presented, allowing you to target specific Device fields (including all Devices), and to also define a Device type. For example All Devices that are Mobiles enables you to control the number of attempts made to mobile phones.
To	Specify the location of previous attempts (that otherwise meet the conditions above) to count. If not specified, previous attempts to anywhere (using the current Client ID or Device, as specified above) are counted.
Count attempts between times	Indicates the number of outbound attempts that were made today during a specific time period. The Attempt rule will only count attempts made within the defined time period. Attempts made outside this time period will not be counted by this rule. Note: The Start Time and End Time options are only available when Count attempts between times is turned on. The Timezone source field is not editable. It is set within the campaign group settings.
Apply custom condition	Set to On to define a custom condition that limits attempts calculation to only those attempts that satisfy the provided condition. (Set to Off by default.) The next three settings displays only when Apply custom condition is set to On: Custom condition—Enter a Java Script expression that evaluates to True or False. Use $<user data key name> in the expression to refer to the user data value. For example: $other12 === 'CA Validate—Click to validate the custom condition for the Custom Compliance Rule. User custom condition for history search—Set to On to apply the current custom condition when searching previous contact attempts in history. When set to Off, CX Contact searches for previous attempts unconditionally.
Apply Disposition Code	Select a Disposition Code to be applied to the call attempt when the outcome is a negative rule check result. Treatment could be defined for this Disposition Code. If no Disposition Code is selected, Treatment can be applied to "Cancel Record" call result.
Custom Conditions	When applying Attempt Rules, complicated use cases sometimes require the ability to also apply a customizable condition to the Attempt Rules definition. For example, you could apply special Attempt Rules to customers that have real estate properties in specific states (where PropertyState is stored in the OtherX field) or to customers that have specific account types (where AccountType is also stored in the OtherX field). CX Contact then counts attempts only if the specific user data field satisfies the condition. See also, Create Custom Conditions.

How to enable

On the Attempt Rules tab, select New and specify the parameters as described in the table above. The new rule will appear on the Attempt Rules page and it will populate in the Attempt Rules section when you create or edit a campaign object (dialing profile, campaign template, or campaign group). Notice that you only see the Required rules, meaning that those are the rules that are automatically applied to all new and existing campaigns because you checked Required when you set up the rule. If you don't want to apply a Required rule to a campaign object, you must return to the Compliance Tools page and uncheck Required for that rule. You cannot deselect a Required rule when you create or edit the campaign object. If you want to add Optional rules (rules that weren't marked as Required) to the campaign object, click Change and select the rules from the list. The Optional rules will appear alongside the Required rules. You can click the X next to the name of any Optional rule to remove it.

Edit, Delete, or Duplicate an Attempt Rule

On the main Attempt Rules page, use the Actions menu next to any Attempt rule to do any of the following:

• Edit - Click the pencil icon.
• Delete - Click the trash can icon.
• Duplicate - Click the document icon. The Duplicate Attempt Rule dialog box opens with the settings from the original rule populated. You can change any or all of them. If you do not change the name of the Attempt rule, it will inherit the name of the original Attempt rule, with _duplicate1 appended to it.

Create Custom Conditions

This section provides details about how to create custom conditions for Attempt Rules.

1. Enter the JavaScript expression that evaluates to true or false.

   The attempt rule counts only the historical facts that make the Java Script expression evaluate to true.

2. Use $<user data key> within the expression to refer to a value of a pre-defined or user data field $<user data key>.

   You can refer any field in either the validation record, historical record, or both; The customConditionScope field defines the source of the field $<user data key>.

   • customConditionScope=both (default)—The Compliance engine uses the custom condition for both attempts (history search and current record) being validated. A historical record is counted only when the custom condition evaluated to true for both the historical and validation record fields. This means the condition is evaluated once for each historical record, and once when taking fields from real-time data.
   • customConditionScope=current—The Compliance engine applies the custom condition for the current record being validated only.
   • customConditionScope=history—The custom condition is evaluated once for each historical record and not for the current record being validated.
3. Be sure to provide the $<user data key> to Compliance Manager within the validation or historical request. If this is a custom field, it must be defined by the OtherX field using the send_arrtibute string. For example:

     "c_otherXX": {
             "es_attribute": "1",
             "icon_attribute": "1",
             "send_attribute": "$<user data key>"        
          }

Programming the JavaScript Condition

The simplest way to provide a custom condition is to use a JavaScript expression that evaluates to true or false. You can use any valid JavaScript syntax to write an expression, but be sure to enclose it in round brackets for proper boolean evaluation.

Example 1.

Suppose you have an attempt rule condition that prevents dialing to a customer if 3 or more dialing attempts have been made in the last 10 days. We can use a custom script to prevent dialing only to Platinum customers using a simple JavaScript expression, as follows: This custom condition dictates that only the attempts with $field_1 == 'Platinum' are counted toward the limit of 3 attempts in the last 10 days. This does not limit dialing to non-platinum customers.

Be sure to provide $field_1 to Compliance Manager with the validation or historical request, and it is defined by the OtherX field using the send_arrtibute string, as follows:     

  "c_other21": {
              "es_attribute": "1",
              "icon_attribute": "1",
              "send_attribute": "field_1"
            }

You could use a more complicated expression using any valid JavaScript syntax.

Example 2.

Suppose you need to limit dialing when you've made too many historical attempts outside of an 8-to-17-hour window. In this case, you can define a rule with customConditionScope=history and a custom condition, as follows:

(localHours = (new Date(Date.now() - Number($GSW_TZ_OFFSET) * 60* 1000)).getUTCHours()) && (localHours>=17 || localHours<8)

1. Calculate the localHours variable using the expression:

   localHours = (new Date(Date.now() - Number($GSW_TZ_OFFSET) * 60 *60 * 1000)).getUTCHours()

   In this code, you get the epoch (number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970).

2. This epoch is shifted to the number of milliseconds provided by the

   $GSW_TZ_OFFSET. GSW_TZ_OFFSET

   pre-defined field which contains the local time shift, in seconds.

   The resulting epoch is used to construct a new Date object that has the UTC time adjusted to your (the customer's) local time. An hour is subtracted from it, which is actually the same hour in the local time zone, because the shift was applied.

3. Check to confirm that the

   localHours

   parameter value does not fall outside the allowable range, as follows:

   (localHours>=17 || localHours<8)

Besides a JavaScript expression, any JavaScript program can be used to provide a custom condition. The last statement of the script is evaluated to true or false. Example 2 (above) can be rewritten, as follows:

let localDate = new Date(Date.now() - Number($GSW_TZ_OFFSET) * 60* 1000);
let localHours= localDate.getUTCHours();
(localHours>=17 || localHours<8);

The rule uses the result of the last statement:

(localHours>=17 || localHours<8)

The JavaScript condition must work fast to avoid performance issues during pre-dial validation. Scripts running longer than 1 second are aborted by a timeout limit.

Custom Time Zones

Use the Custom Timezones option to assign a time zone to phone numbers containing a specific country code and area code. For example, you can assign the EST time zone to all national rate phone numbers.

How to enable

Option 1: On the Custom Timezones tab, click New and and then specify the country code, area code, exchange code, and timezone that should be applied. If the exchange code is not specified, "any exchange code" is assumed. Option 2: On the Custom Timezones tab, click From file to import a CSV file containing a list of timezones that should be applied. This file does not require any headings, and once the file is imported into CX Contact, each record from the file will appear as a separate entry in the list of custom timezones.

Edit or Delete Custom Time Zone Rules

On the main Custom Time Zones page, use the Actions menu next to any rule to edit or delete the rule:

• Edit - Click the pencil icon.
• Delete - Click the trash can icon.

Location Rules

Location rules suppress contact attempts based on the location of a contact or device.

Location rules have the following attributes:

Name	The rule name must be unique within the account and rule type, and may contain letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores, and spaces.
Required	Specify if this is a Required rule. If a rule is Required, CX Contact will apply the rule to all new and existing campaigns, even ones that are currently running. If a rule is not Required, it must be manually applied to all applicable campaigns. You do this when you create or modify a campaign object. See the instructions below for more information.
Priority	Set the priority of this rule. If you have multiple rules the priority denotes the order in which the rules will be applied. A lower priority value indicates a higher priority, with 1 being the highest priority.
Determine location by	The location of the attempt may be based on the Device or the Contact.
Do not contact locations	Specify the locations that should be suppressed: Country and Regions - For each Country and Region you can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Timezones - CX Contact will look for the specified timezone to determine the location. For each Timezone you can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Country codes - CX Contact will look for the specified country to determine the location. For each Country code you can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Area codes (appears only if you selected Device in the Determine location by field) - Press the New button to specify one or more area codes for which you want to define suppression rules. Enter the area codes, separated by commas. CX Contact will look for the Device's area code to determine the location. For each Area code you can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Postal codes (appears only if you selected Contact in the Determine location by field) - Press the New button to specify one or more postal codes for which you want to define suppression rules. Enter the postal codes, separated by commas. CX Contact will look for the contact's postal code to determine the location. For each Postal code you can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Note: The postal code can include an asterisk (*) that acts as a wildcard (that is, zero or more instances of any character). Anywhere - CX Contact suppresses all contacts, regardless of location. You can select the Type and Number of the devices to be suppressed, or you can suppress all types and/or all device numbers. Note: Selecting All Types and/or All Devices will completely suppress dialing.
Devices	Select the devices to which you want to apply the Location rule. All Devices (automatically marks all device numbers 1 to 10) All Types (automatically marks all device types) Device1... Device10 Mobile Landline International Ends with '00' Ends with '000' Non-Geographic Contains an extension On a 'Do Not Contact' list (US/UK only) Duplicated device in Position Duplicated device in List Duplicated device in Contact Voip phone

How to enable

On the Location Rules tab, select New and specify the location attributes as described above. The new rule will appear on the Location Rules page and it will populate in the Location Rules section when you create or edit a campaign object. Notice that you only see the Required rules, meaning that those are the rules that are automatically applied to all new and existing campaigns because you checked Required when you set up the rule. If you don't want to apply a Required rule to a campaign object, you must return to the Compliance Tools page and uncheck Required for that rule. You cannot deselect a Required rule when creating or editing a campaign object. If you want to add Optional rules (rules that weren't marked as Required) to the campaign template or campaign group, click Change and select the rules from the list. The Optional rules will appear alongside the Required rules. You can click the X next to the name of any Optional rule to remove it from that campaign template or campaign group.

Edit, Delete, or Duplicate a Location Rule

On the main Location Rules page, use the Actions menu next to any Custom rule to do any of the following:

• Edit - Click the pencil icon.
• Delete - Click the trash can icon.
• Duplicate - Click the document icon. The Duplicate Location Rule dialog box opens with the settings from the original rule populated. You can change any or all of them. If you do not change the name of the Location rule, it will inherit the name of the original Location rule, with _duplicate1 appended to it.

Custom Rules

Use the New Custom Rule option to create a rule that will allow or deny outbound dialing according to a user-defined Java Script expression evaluated for each outbound call immediately before dialing occurs. A custom rule enables you to implement customized business rule logic.

Custom rules have the following attributes:

Name	The rule name must be unique within the account and rule type, and may contain letters, digits, hyphens, and underscores, and spaces.
Required	Specify if this is a Required rule. If a rule is Required, CX Contact will apply the rule to all new and existing campaigns, even ones that are currently running. If a rule is not Required, it must be manually applied to all applicable campaigns. You do this when you create or modify a campaign group. See the instructions below for more information.
Priority	Reserved for future use. Editing this parameter will not yield any results in CX Contact.
Description	Enter an explanation of the purpose of the custom rule.
Apply Disposition Code	Select a Disposition Code to be applied to a call attempt, when the outcome of the call attempt is a negative rule check result. A treatment can be defined for the Disposition Code. If a Disposition Code is not selected, the "Do Not Call" call result treatment may be applied.
Custom Expression	Enter a Java Script expression that evaluates the conditions for a True or False outcome. True allows the dial to occur. False does not allow the dial to occur. Note: You can refer to the user data values attached to the call using $<user data key name> .

How to enable

On the Custom Rules tab, select New and specify the custom rule attributes as described above. The new rule will appear on the Custom Rules page and it will populate in the Custom Rules section when you create or edit a campaign group. Notice that you only see the Required rules, meaning that those are the rules that are automatically applied to all new and existing campaigns because you checked Required when you set up the rule.

You can create custom rules so that dialing is blocked during certain time periods or on specific dates. For example, if you want to suppress dialing on a holiday or a 'no contact day', you can specify suitable conditions in a custom rule.

Example 1

Suppose you want to create a custom rule so that dialing is blocked every year on the following days in the Eastern time zone (EST): 4th of July and 25th of December. Here's a sample condition you can use to achieve this:

let eastern_datetime_str = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", { timeZone: "America/New_York" });
let date_eastern = new Date(eastern_datetime_str);
!(date_eastern.getMonth() === 6 &&  date_eastern.getDate() === 4) && !( date_eastern.getMonth() === 11 &&  date_eastern.getDate() === 25)

If you want the record to be redialed, for example the next day, you will need to configure a disposition code that is applied to the record in the event of a negative check result. You will also need to define a treatment for the disposition code so that dialing resumes on the specified day.

Edit or Delete Custom Rules

On the Custom Rules page, use the Actions menu next to any rule to edit or delete the rule:

• Edit - Click the pencil icon.
• Delete - Click the trash can icon.
• Duplicate - Click the document icon. The Duplicate Custom Rule dialog box opens with the settings from the original rule populated. You can change any or all of them. If you do not change the name of the Custom rule, it will inherit the name of the original Custom rule, with _duplicate1 appended to it.

External Pre-Dial Validation Rules

External Pre-Dial Validation is an optional custom step that you can use to expand (or replace, depending on the configuration) Compliance Manager's standard pre-dial validation with an HTTP or HTTPS request to an external Web/Application Server. The server must be capable of processing HTTP requests with JSON bodies and respond with 200 OK (Dial) to 409 Cancel (No Dial) responses, based on it's business logic. CX Contact supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols together with the ability to configure the HTTP Method (POST, PUT, GET), optional HTTP Proxy, and one or more optional custom HTTP headers. CX Contact passes all properties of the record being validated in the JSON body of the external pre-dial validation request.

External Pre-Dial Validation is a type of Compliance Rule for which you can configure multiple rules and optionally associate them with Campaign Groups. Since Compliance Rules for External Pre-Dial Validation are optional, each rule must be explicitly associated with a Dialing Profile, Campaign Template, or Campaign Group to take effect.

Tip

There's no limit to the number of external pre-dial validation rules you can create for a Tenant.

External Pre-Dial Validation rules have the following attributes:

General tab:
Execute	Specify when external pre-dial validation is to be done in relation to Compliance Manager's standard pre-dial validation. Select one of the following: Before After Instead Jointly The default setting is After. Warning Selecting Instead effectively switches off all Compliance Manager standard pre-dial validation functionality, which means that none of the Compliance Rules associated with a Campaign Group take effect.
URI	Specify the HTTP or HTTPS URI for the External Pre-Dial Validation service. This field is empty by default, but shows the proper URI format in a Tool Tip. For example, http[s]://server.domain/path
Apply Disposition Code	Select a Disposition Code to be applied to a call attempt, when the outcome of the call attempt is a negative rule check result. A treatment can be defined for the Disposition Code. If a Disposition Code is not selected, the "Do Not Call" call result treatment may be applied.
Advanced tab:
Method	Select one of the following HTTP methods: POST PUT GET The default method is POST.
Proxy	Specify the URI for the optional proxy server. This field is empty by default, but shows the proper URI format in a Tool Tip. For example, http://proxy.domain. Tip CX Contact supports only HTTP proxy server.
Connection Timeout (sec)	Specify the connection timeout, in seconds. The default value is 60, the minimum value is 1, and the maximum value is 360.
Headers	Specify additional HTTP headers (one per field). Click the button to add fields. This field is empty by default, but shows the proper Header format in a Tool Tip. For example, name:value.

How to enable:

On the Compliance Tools tab, click External Pre-Dial Validation Rules and then, select New. Populate the General and Advanced tabs as described in the table above, clicking Save when completed. The new rule will appear on the External Pre-Dial Validation Rules page.

Association with Campaign Groups

You can optionally associate External Pre-Dial Validation Rules with Campaign Groups for any channel (Voice, SMS, Email).

1. Go to the Dialing Profile > Campaign Template > Campaign Group view.
2. Click Create/Edit to open the dialog.

   You'll see External Validation, together with a Change button and the associated rule to the right.

3. Click Change to open a dialog containing a list of the available external validation rules.

   You can associate only one rule with a Campaign Group.

4. Click X (to the right of the rule) to disassociate it from the Campaign Group.

Contact Times

Use the Allowed Contact Times by Region option to define allowable calling windows for each day of the week for a given region for a specific set of devices. Contact attempts to your contacts in those regions will be limited to the time frame you define on each day, regardless of your contact center hours and campaign time frames. For example, if you have campaigns running from 8AM to 9PM local time, and you restrict attempts in New York to 9AM to 7PM, no attempts will be made to anyone in New York until 9AM, and they will end at 7PM.

To enable Contact Times by region:

1. Select the Contact Times tab.
2. Select New > Contact Time and configure the following:

Name	The Contact Time name.
Required	Select Required to apply the Contact Time rule to all Campaign Groups.
Priority	Set the priority of this rule. If you have multiple rules the selected priority denotes the order in which the rules will be applied. A lower priority value indicates a higher priority, with 1 being the highest priority.
Country	Select the target country for this rule or select “Any Country” to apply this rule regardless of the country being contacted.
Region/State/Province	Select one or more Regions, States or Provinces for this rule. If not selected all regions/States/Provinces for this country will be applied to this rule.
Devices	Select one or more devices associated with this new rule. Note: Any Device can only be selected when no other device was selected.
Device Type	Select one or more of the following devices. Note: Any Device Type can only be selected when no other device was selected. Any Device Type Mobile Landline International Ends with '00' Ends with '000' Non-Geographic Contains an extension On a 'Do Not Contact' list (US/UK only) Duplicated device in Position Duplicated device in List Duplicated device in Contact Voip phone
Timezone Source	Indicates the timezone source.
Apply Disposition Code	Select a Disposition Code to be applied to a call attempt when the outcome is a negative rule check result If a Disposition Code is not selected, Treatment can be applied to the "Cancel Record" call result.
Strict	Select one of the following: ON - Records matching the rule criteria are not attempted until the time window is open. OFF - Records are attempted regardless of the time window and are blocked for dialing during the pre-dial validation step if the rule check is negative.
Allowed Contact Times	The following types of restrictions are available for any given region: Unrestricted - allows contact attempts to occur in accordance with the start and end time specified for that Campaign Group. Select Hours - allows you to explicitly define the hours for making contact attempts for that day. If for example, you are restricting contact attempts from 9AM to 7PM, select 9AM from the Start menu, and select 7PM from the End menu. No Contact - When you select this option, no contact attempts will be made to the affected region on the specified day. Note: When Strict is enabled All days have the same contact time is enabled and cannot be unselected.

Tip

If each day of the week will have the same allowable contact times, check All days have the same contact time when creating the new rule.

Edit or Delete Contact Times Rules

On the Allowed Contact Times by Region' page, use the Actions menu next to any rule to edit or delete the rule:

• Edit - Click the pencil icon.
• Delete - Click the trash can icon.

Contact Dates

Use the Do Not Contact Dates option to specify a date in which contact attempts cannot take place. This applies to any device in the account and is effective for 24 hours (midnight to midnight, local to the device).

Important

Changes to Do Not Contact Dates are refreshed by CX Contact every minute. If a Do Not Contact Date is defined for the current day, all dialing for that day will stop in one minute or less.

How to enable

On the Do Not Contact Dates tab, add a Label (for example Christmas Day) and select the associated date (for example December 25).

Delete Contact Dates Rules

You cannot edit a Contact Dates rule - the only option is to delete the existing rule and create a new one with a different date or label. To delete the rule, check the box next to the rule name and click the trash can icon.

Related Topics

• Time Zone Assignment
• Create and Manage Suppression Lists
• Import Specification Files