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QueueMetrics => Running QueueMetrics => Topic started by: hsanchez on September 15, 2009, 20:17:01

Title: Reporting inconsistencies
Post by: hsanchez on September 15, 2009, 20:17:01
We just noticed that QM will show different results for "Unanswered Call Wait Time Per Hour" for a specific time period:

we ran the report at 9:22 and it showed 3 unanswered calls:
8:15, 8:30, 9:15 (1 missed call each)

then the report was run again at 9:26, and it only showed 2:
8:15, 8:30

Needless to say, this is causing a lot of problems :(


Both reports were run exactly the same way (Quick activity reports: today for a specific set of queues).  This was happening with QM 1.4.7, we've upgraded to 1.5.4 and it still shows inconsistencies.
Title: Re: Reporting inconsistencies
Post by: QueueMetrics on September 16, 2009, 22:29:46
This is by design - when you run a report from 9:00 to 10:00 you will only see data that was written between 9:00 and 10:00 - so if a call was started at 9:59 and answered at 10:01, the call at 10:00 would display as "Lost - Ongoing".

Basically, it's better to run reports for longer time periods, and then drill doewn to the events you are actually interested in.


Title: Re: Reporting inconsistencies
Post by: hsanchez on September 17, 2009, 01:13:53
well, the problem is that this reports different data for the same report, for events in the past (not calls that are still in progress).

For example, a report that runs at 10:00 will show that for 8:00 - 8:15 there were 2 unanswered calls, but running exactly the same report at 11:00 this will show that there was only 1 unanswered call from 8:00 - 8:15... unanswered calls are effectively disappearing from our reports.

I can see data changing for current time periods if a call is still in progress, but I think for older data the numbers shouldn't change.
Title: Re: Reporting inconsistencies
Post by: QueueMetrics on September 21, 2009, 12:50:16
See http://queuemetrics.com/faq.jsp#faq-062-qm_numbers