Queues
What is a queue?
A queue is a holding place for inquiries waiting to receive a response. The queue contains new inquiries from individuals, who are responding to an evangelism site and writing to us for the first time.
How an inquirer's information comes into a queue
- A person visits an evangelism website.
- Completes a response form for his/her decision.
- Their name, decision, information and comments are forwarded to the appropriate team queue.
Two types of queues:
- Group queues (available to you and your team members)
For example, the "Language - Chinese" queue will hold inquiries in the Chinese language and is only visible to members of that team. - Personal Queue (Assigned to You)
This contains inquirers that are assigned to you. It can hold persons that a team coach has specifically assigned to you or may hold a person to whom you have begun a reply.
Note to team coaches: Instead of the Personal Queue, you will see "Inquirers Assigned to Individual Connectors On Your Teams." This will also show inquirers assigned to individuals on your team.
Actions
These action icons are shown to the left of an inquirer listed on the queue:
- Hover your mouse cursor over this icon to display information about an inquirer and decide if you wish to reply.
- Click this icon to begin a reply. Click here for help on the Reply to an Inquirer window.
Queue locking
When a Connector begins a reply to an inquirer, that inquirer is then locked or unavailable for other Connectors to answer. However, if a reply is left unattended for 3 hours, it will be automatically discarded. The inquirer will then be unlocked and return to the group queue so that other Connectors are able to answer.
Difference between Queues and My Messages
Queues contain new inquiries from individuals contacting us for the first time. When an inquirer replies to us after our initial contact, his or her messages will appear in the Inbox of under My Messages.