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Start Service

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POST /services/start
Available since: 8.0.200.00

Description

Starts a service based on:

  • The service type passed in the body.
  • The contact information available (customer ID or contact key for later lookup).

If your application does not assign a customer ID, your service is anonymous. In that case, your application must assign a contact key. For further information, read the following pages:

Important.png Your application is not responsible for the service ID creation. UCS automatically assigns 64-bit integer IDs to the created services.

Operation

Start Service
ID CV.WS.SRV.1
Method POST
URL /services/start
Field Name   Type   Mandatory Description
Body: Service Start Event<ref>The body of this operation is mandatory and makes use of the Service Start Event.</ref>
customer_id string yes if no contact_key The unique ID of the customer associated with the given service.
Important.png Services with no customer_id are anonymous. In this case, the event should include a contact_key.
contact_key string yes if no customer_id Key for later lookup of the service. This contact_key is mandatory if no customer ID is specified. For example, the application might store a PIN or ANI as the contact key when the service is first started. Later, if the customer is identified then the contact key is used to lookup the existing service record and associate it with the customer.
service_type long or string yes The unique ID associated with the type of service, typically the DB ID of a value in the Service Type Business Attribute<ref name="business">

Refer to Configuration Options for more details on Business Attribute mapping.</ref>.

session_id string no The ID of the related session, for instance, the orchestration session, or any other business session.
interaction_id string no The ID of the related Genesys interaction. This ID can be used by other Genesys reporting products such as Stat Server, URS, Composer, and GVP.
application_type long or string no The unique ID associated with the type or class<ref name="business" />application issuing the service event. May be used to group related applications, potentially across resource types.
application_id integer no The unique ID (Genesys DB ID) for the application issuing the service event, such as a GVP VoiceXML application or an Orchestration SCXML application.
resource_type long or string no The unique ID associated with the type or class<ref name="business"/> of resource which provides the service (such as GVP, Agent Desktop, or Orchestration).
resource_id integer no The unique DB ID for the specific resource which provides the service. For instance:
  • the Genesys DB ID of a specific GVP or orchestration platform.
  • the DB ID of a given agent, according to the context.
media_type long or string no The media type<ref name="business"/> applicable to the given service, for instance, e-mail, voice, chat, etc.
est_duration integer no The estimated service duration in seconds.
timestamp date/time no The UTC time at which the event was raised, with a precision of milliseconds, using the ISO 8601 representation : [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]T[HH]:[mm]:[ss].[SSS]Z. If the application does not specify this timestamp, the server does it when the event is processed.
<extension n>
Supported since 8.0.2
Extension (single-valued)
or Extension[] (multi-valued)
no Service extensions, where <extension n> corresponds to the unique name of the service extension. Your application can specify as many extensions as needed as long as they were previously defined with the Create Service Extension Schema operation.

<references />

Response

The Context Management Service API answers with HTTP codes for every request. The following table shows the correct response for a successful request. See HTTPResponseCodesandErrors for further details on the possible codes that this operation can return.

Response
HTTP code 201
HTTP message Created
Header Location: ${base_uri}/service/${service_id}

where:

  • ${base_uri} is the URI of the created service.
  • ${service_id} is the service ID.
Body {"service_id": ${service_id}}

where:

  • ${service_id} is the service ID.

Example

Operation

POST /services/start
{  
  "timestamp": "2009-05-12T12:05:12.145Z",
  "interaction_id": "123ABCAADFJ1259ACF",
  "application_type":400,
  "application_id":40,
  "est_duration":60,
  "contact_key":"42",
  "service_type":100,  
  "media_type": 1,
  "resource_id": 5005,
  "resource_type": 2,
  "disposition": 10, 
  "coupon": {
          "coupon_name": "DISCOUNTCODE15" 
  }, 
  "satisfaction": {
    "score": 85,
    "agentID": 2025
  },
  "relatedOffers": [
	  {
	   "offer_name":"VIP credit card black ed.",
	   "type":9,
	   "comments":"proposed to all client"
	  },
	  {
	   "offer_name":"3 times payment GOLD",
	   "type":4,
	   "comments":"limited offer"
	  }
	  ,{
	   "offer_name":"life insurance",
	   "type":3,
	   "comments":"healt check to be done before approval"
	  }
  ] 
}

Result

HTTP 201 Created
location: /services/12349857
{"service_id": 12349857}
This page was last edited on November 23, 2017, at 16:00.
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