Integrate with CTI systems using CTI adapters
To integrate Unified Service Desk with your computer telephony integration (CTI) system, use a CTI adapter. The User Interface Integration (UII) CTI framework has components that you can use to build a CTI adapter. More information: UII CTI Framework Components.
You can create two types of CTI adapters for Unified Service Desk:
The first type involves defining a CTI Desktop Manager component with the required telephony actions for call and agent state management that can communicate with your CTI system. Next, you configure it as a CTI Desktop Manager type of hosted control in Unified Service Desk, which enables you to handle the interpretation of requests from a CTI system, and then route it within Unified Service Desk.
Unified Service Desk provides a generic listener adapter that you can use to test your CTI system by sending CTI requests on a port with standard parameters that Unified Service Desk can evaluate as a CTI event. More information: Use the generic listener adapter in Unified Service Desk
The second type of adapter involves building all the components of a CTI adapter from scratch where you define how to connect to your CTI system (CTI Connector), how the calls and agent states will be managed (CTI Desktop Manager), and the look and feel of your softphone (CTI Controls). This type of adapter is used if your CTI system uses a service-based polling system or uses a callback/event notification system. More information: Build a custom CTI adapter for Unified Service Desk
In This Section
Use the generic listener adapter in Unified Service Desk
Build a custom CTI adapter for Unified Service Desk
Considerations for creating a CTI adapter for Unified Service Desk
Walkthrough: Use the generic listener adapter for CTI event routing
Related Sections
UII computer telephony integration (CTI) framework
Unified Service Desk programming reference
Unified Service Desk
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