User Notes (Hosted Control)

Use User Notes hosted control type to provide agents with a scratch pad to type notes during an interaction. Language specific spell checking can be applied to this component by calling the SetLanguage action. This component does not automatically pick up the current language of the user, by design. The ability to change the language used is intended to provide the ability to set the language appropriate for the transaction. For example, consider there is a bilingual agent that can speak English and Spanish. The IVR may pass the language selection from the phone system to the agent application’s CTI adapter. This language selection can then be used to set the spell check language for this hosted control.

Note

This hosted control does not automatically populate replacement parameters. The UpdateReplacementParameters action can be called to take the current notes and populate the replacement parameters. The replacement parameters can be used to copy the notes to the case.

Create a User Notes hosted control

While creating a new hosted control, the fields in the New Hosted Control screen vary based on the type of hosted control you want to create. This section provides information about the specific fields that are unique to the User Notes hosted control type. For detailed information about creating a hosted control, see Create or edit a hosted control.

User Notes hosted control.

In the New Hosted Control screen:

  • From the Unified Service Desk Component Type drop-down list, select User Notes.

  • In the Display Group field, specify a panel where this hosted control will be displayed. For information about various panels available in Unified Service Desk, see Panels.

Predefined UII actions

These are the predefined actions for this hosted control type.

Close

This action is used to close the hosted control.

FireEvent

Fires a user-defined event from this hosted control.

Parameter Description
name Name of the user-defined event.

All subsequent name=value pairs become the parameters to the event. For more information about creating a user-defined event, see Create a user-defined event.

MoveToPanel

This action is used to move hosted controls between panels at runtime.

Parameter Description
app Name of the hosted control to be moved.
panel Target panel for the hosted control.

New_CRM_Page

Creates a page for creating a new record of the entity specified, and treats the page as a popup from the specified hosted control. The window navigation rules are evaluated to determine the location where the page to create the entity record is displayed.

Parameter Description
LogicalName The logical name of the entity for creating a new instance.

Note

The rest of the parameters should consist of name=value pairs. These are the additional pre-populated values in the form for creating a new record for the specified entity. For more information about using this action, see step 4 in Walkthrough 7: Configure agent scripting in your agent application.

Open_CRM_Page

Opens an existing instance of the entity specified and identified by the ID, and treats the page as a popup from the specified hosted control. The window navigation rules are evaluated to determine the location where the popup should be displayed.

Parameter Description
LogicalName The logical name of the entity to open.
id The ID of the entity record to open.

Pops up a URL from the hosted control and runs the window navigation rules against it for routing the popup to the appropriate location.

Parameter Description
url Routes a popup from this hosted control using this URL as if it were a popup requested from the displayed control.
frame The frame from which this popup originated.

RealignWindow

Displays the hosted control at the specified location on a monitor. You can display hosted control on up to two monitors. This action is applicable for hosted control instances that are configured to be placed on a USDFloatingPanel or USDFloatingToolPanel panel type.

Parameter Description
screen Specifies the screen on which to display the hosted control. Valid values are 1 or 2. If you don’t specify this parameter, 1 is passed by default.
left Specifies the position, in percentage, from the left of the screen on the target monitor where the hosted control should be displayed. Valid values are 0 through 100. If you don’t specify this parameter, 0 is passed by default.
top Specifies the position, in percentage, from the top of the screen on the target monitor where the hosted control should be displayed. Valid values are 0 through 100. If you don’t specify this parameter, 0 is passed by default.
width Specifies the width, in percentage, of the hosted control window on the target monitor. Valid values are 1 through 100. If you don’t specify this parameter, 100 is passed by default.
height Specifies the height, in percentage, of the hosted control window on the target monitor. Valid values are 1 through 100. If you don’t specify this parameter, 100 is passed by default.

SetSize

This action explicitly sets the width and height of the hosted control. This is particularly useful when using "auto" in your panel layouts.

Parameter Description
width The width of the hosted control.
height The height of the hosted control.

UpdateReplacementParameters

This action is used to explicitly update the User Notes hosted control data into the replacement parameter list. This is unlike other hosted control types where the hosted control data is automatically updated into the replacement parameters.

Predefined events

The following predefined events are available for this hosted control type.

Loaded

Occurs when the hosted control has finished loading.

PopupRouted

Occurs after a popup has been routed by the system.

Parameter Description
url The URL of the popup that was routed.

See also

UII actions Events View predefined actions and events for a hosted control Unified Service Desk Configuration Walkthroughs Hosted control types and action/event reference Administration Guide for Unified Service Desk for Microsoft Dynamics CRM