Using the Phone Number Search to Find People

People and telephony systems can look up people by phone number using a specific URL.

This introduction article will help Enterprise or Technician users to look up people by telephone number. User would need access to the People application in TDNext.

Overview

The phone number search allows you launch the People application with a phone number as a parameter in the URL. This allows other systems, particularly telephony systems, to launch the People search when an interaction is routed to a technician.

Where to Find This

This feature appears in the TDNext interface.

Navigate to searching by phone number, following these paths:

• In TDNext, go to Application Menu > select People application

Using the Phone Number Search

Creating Phone Number URLs for searching

The phone number search is initiated by using the following URL syntax: https://yourorganization.teamdynamix.com/TDNext/Apps/People/RedirectFromPhoneNumber?phoneNumber=[xxx-xxx-xxxx]

For example: https://acmeacademy.teamdynamix.com/TDNext/Apps/People/RedirectFromPhoneNumber?phoneNumber=614-555-1212

Searching for a Person Record Using Phone Number

TeamDynamix will automatically remove any non-numeric characters and country codes when it searches the database. When creating person records, formatting and country codes are not necessary, but can be included if desired. The search will work either way.

When the search completes, if only one result is found, that person record will automatically open. If multiple results are returned, they will be ordered based on the phone number, allowing the technician to refine the search if they want. 

To search for a person record based on phone number:

1. In TDNext, navigate to People application.

 

Specifying Which Tab Opens on the Person Details Page

By adding a tab parameter to URLs linking to a Person Detail page, you can specify what tab will open.

To specify the tab that should open, add <code>&tab=[tab_name]</code> to the URL. For example,

The tab_name value should be one of the following: 

• settings
• tickets
• projects
• requests
• assets
• searches
• code

When the tab= parameter is not included, it will default to the General tab.