Global Department Settings

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While individual Departments may have unique needs, many settings can be applied universally across your entire office. Thats where the Global Department Settings page comes in handy, letting you streamline Department configuration and ensure consistent policies and practices.

Let's dive into the details. 

Who can use this?

By default, only Office and Company Admins can access the Global Department Settings page.

Department Admins can access the Global Department Settings page once granted permissions.

Access Global Department Settings

To access your Global Department Settings, head to your Dialpad Admin Portal, then select Departments.

Assign Global Department Settings permission

By default, only Office and Company Admins can access the Global Department Settings page. Department Admins can access the Global Department Settings page once granted permissions.

To assign the Global Department Settings permission set, head to your Dialpad Admin Portal.

  1. Navigate to Office

  2. Select Users

  3. Select Options beside the user

  4. Select Privileges > Give multi department settings access

Access control for departments

Use Dialpad’s access control settings to determine if agents can view their department’s settings. When this setting is enabled, agents will be prevented from viewing these settings.

To set access control preferences, go to the Global Department Settings.

  1. Navigate to Access Control

  2. Check the box beside Restrict agents from viewing department settings

Bulk holiday updates for departments

Does your company have multiple Departments? Simplify holiday management by applying holiday settings to multiple shared lines at once.

From the Global Department Settings page you can see all holidays that are applied to your departments.

In the Departments column, select the number to see which departments the holiday is assigned to.

Hover over a holiday to access management options such as edit, copy, and clone.

Create a multi-department holiday

To create a holiday and apply it to multiple departments, go to your Dialpad Admin Portal.

  1. Select Departments

  2. Navigate to Department Holidays

  3. Select Add Holiday

  4. Name the holiday

  5. Select the date

  6. Choose how often the holiday repeats

  7. Choose if your Department will be open or closed for this holiday

  8. Determine the holiday hours and routing rules

    1. If your Business Hours are Closed, the Closed routing rules will automatically apply.

  9. Select which Departments you want this holiday to apply to

  10. Select Create