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The Busy Times report provides an hour-by-hour graphical representation of your call volumes for each day, giving a detailed breakdown of calls by type for each time slot. This report is useful for identifying call traffic trends and can readily highlight your busiest periods, allowing you to more effectively plan your staffing requirements.

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Running the report

Click on the Reports tab and select Account summary from the left-hand pane. The screen displaying the parameters of the report will appear, where you can configure the entity, period, filters, options and format of the report.

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Below is an example of this report's output in Web format, showing a graphical representation of calls grouped into time slots of one hour.

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The large, dark red dots represent your busiest periods, whereas the small, green dots represent quieter periods; by hovering your cursor over a particular dot a tooltip will be displayed, showing the volume of calls for that dot's time period.

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To modify your report to cover a larger organisational scope, click on an element of the breadcrumb as shown below:

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<h2>Introduction</h2>

<p>The Busy Times report provides a clear, hour-by-hour graphical representation of your call volumes for each day. Drill down into any hour to see a detailed breakdown of
calls by type for that hour.</p>

<p>This report is ideal for identifying call traffic trends and very quickly highlights your busy days and times, allowing you to more effectively plan your staffing
requirements.</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/busy_times_1.png" alt="Busy times" />

<h2>Running the report</h2>

<p>On the <span class="reference">Reports</span> screen, click on <span class="reference">Busy times</span> in the reports type list, as shown below:</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/busy_times_2.png" alt="Busy times" />

<p>You can tailor the report to your specific requirements by selecting the entity you'd like to apply the report to as well as the output format required. You can also limit the results by adding filters and options as detailed below: </p>

<h4>Entity</h4>

<p>The <span class="reference">Entity</span> allows you to choose which area of the directory you would 
like to report on. If you want to run a report for your entire 
organisation, you do not need to choose an entity.</p>

<p>If you want to select a specific area for reporting, click on the 
<img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/add_button.png" alt="Add Entity button" /> 
button to get a pop-up window showing the areas of the directory you can report on.</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/reports_3.png" alt="Add Entity" />

<p>To drill up and down simply click on the hyperlinks provided, shown in 
the screenshot below as Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff etc.</p>

<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/entity_panel_1.png" alt="Entity panel" />

<p>Once you have reached the area you would like to report on, click on the green 
<img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/tick_button.png" alt="Add Entity button" /> 
as highlighted in red below.</p>

<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/entity_panel_2.png" alt="Entity panel" />

<p>Alternatively if you are looking for a specific area e.g. person, 
department, site, name etc, you can just enter the name and press the 
<img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/search_button.png" alt="Search" /> 
button as shown in the example below:</p>

<img class="screenshot border" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/entity_panel_3.png" alt="Entity panel" />

<h5>Selected Entity</h5>

<p>Once your entity you would like to report on had been selected, it will appear, as shown below:</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/selected_entity.png" alt="Selected entity" />

<h5>Delete an Entity</h5>

<p>In order to delete an entity, just select it with your mouse and click on the <img class="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/red_delete_button.png"> button above it, as shown below:</p>

<img class="screenshot" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/delete_entity.png" alt="Delete entity" />

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