Voicemail for Users and Groups
Surgery Connect Voicemail allows caller to leave messages when Users are busy or do not answer the phone
Voicemail can be set up for individual Users through a direct dial call flow, and can be added to your groups
This can be done by a Supervisor through the Configuration Console, via the Numbers in the Service Delivery Console, or directly though X-flow
NOTE: Using voicemail is a choice and if using it it is advisable that the voicemail greeting informs patients that a message should not be left in the case of a medical emergency - we will show you how you can add prompts to the standard voicemail in our full Customising Voicemail guide
This guide will show you how to add voicemail to Users and Groups and the basic configuration options so they can receive voicemail notifications:
Step by step guide
Voicemail via X-flow
Accessing Voicemail
Log in to Surgery Connect - sso.x-onweb.com - with your NHS email address and Surgery Connect password
Navigate to the X-flow Console
Don't forget - if you are already logged into a Surgery Connect console, you can navigate to any other console quickly by using the Menu, next to your initials
Or; Click on the arrow in your toolbar to see the hidden icons
Right click on the Surgery Connect Logo and select Launch Consoles. This will open up the selected console in a new window for you
X-flow will open to an empty workspace
User Voicemail
You can add voicemail to a specific User by loading their Direct Dial call flow - If they do not have a Direct Dial already created for them - see our Direct Dial guide
Load the Users Direct Dial call flow - scroll through the list of call flows and select the User DDI
Click Load
Drag and drop the User Voicemail icon onto the workspace
Select the User you are building the DDI Call flow for
Click Add
Remove the Hang Up (delete)
Connect Busy and No Answer to the Voicemail Block
Auto Arrange the Call Flow
Deploy the call flow to activate the voicemail feature
Group Voicemail
You can add voicemail to any group on any call flow
Load the all flow you want to add the group voicemail to - scroll through the list of call flows and select the call flow
Click Load
Drag and drop the Group Voicemail icon onto the workspace
Select the required Group from the list in the pop up window, Use the Scroll bar on the right to move through the list
Click Add
You now need to delete the prompt attached to the timeout/fail option - select the connecting arrows, prompt and hang up and delete them
Connect the Group timeout/fail to the Group Voicemail
Auto Arrange the Call Flow
Deploy the call flow to activate the voicemail feature
Voicemail via the Configuration Console
Accessing Voicemail
Log in to Surgery Connect - sso.x-onweb.com - with your NHS email address and Surgery Connect password
Select the Configuration Console
Supervisors can use the Configuration Console to change the standard configuration of Groups, Extensions, Voicemail, edit Users, Calendars and the Directory and much more
Don't forget - if you are already logged into a Surgery Connect console, you can navigate to any other console quickly by using the Menu, next to your initials
Or; Click on the arrow in your toolbar to see the hidden icons
Right click on the Surgery Connect Logo and select Launch Consoles. This will open up the selected console in a new window for you
To the left hand side you will see the menu, for User Voicemail, select Users, for Group voicemail select Groups
User Voicemail
Once you have selected Users from the Menu the User list will display
You can scroll through the Users page by page or search for a User with the Name search
Click the pen icon on the required User to view and edit the profile
This will open up all of the standard configurations you can change for that specific user
Navigate to the Voicemail tab
To activate Voicemail for that User you must change the Voicemail max messages from 0
Change the Voicemail options setting as required
Change the Voicemail Notifications - tick/untick box - these settings are how the User will be notified of any voicemail messages that they have received
Send email notification
Sends a voicemail notification email to the User
Attach voicemails to email
Attaches the voicemail recording to the email notification. (Occasionally the NHS firewall can block these attachments)
Send SMS to mobile
Sends an SMS notification to the User, if they have a mobile number connected to their User Profile
Once you are happy with your setting and that you have activated the voicemail for this user click Save
You will see the success notification at the top of the screen
Group Voicemail
Once you have selected Groups from the Menu the Group list will display
You can scroll through the Groups page by page or search for a Group with the Name search
Click the pen icon on the required Group to view and edit the profile
This will open up all of the standard configurations you can change for that specific group
Navigate to the Voicemail tab
To activate Voicemail for that Group you must change the Voicemail max messages from 0
Change the Voicemail options setting as required
You can notify every logged in user for the group
Or, you can notify and administrator only, if you choose this option you need to set an administrator for your group, this can be a User or you can create a dummy user to send the notification to a group email, for example
To set your Group administrator navigate to the General tab
Select your administrator from the drop down
Once you are happy with your setting and that you have activated the voicemail for this group click Save
You will see the success notification at the top of the screen
