Phased rollout This version of the software is currently available only to early adopter SaaS customers as the first step in our phased rollout.

Deprecated and unavailable features


The following features are either deprecated or unavailable for use in Live Chat version 21.02.

Review this list before deploying the Live Chat version 21.02:

Deprecated features

Deprecated feature

Summary

Support Agent Console

The Support Agent Console in BMC Remedy Mid Tier Server is disabled in Live Chat and cannot be enabled.

Support agents can participate in a chat conversation by using BMC Helix ITSM: Smart IT or BMC Helix Business Workflows.

Integration points and automatic incident creation

Only the Self Service-Related Contact Info and Self Service Relate Context integration points remain available. All other integration points that were available in BMC Virtual Chat version 9.1.02 are disabled.

Unavailable features

The following table lists the features that are currently not available in Live Chat:

Version

Unavailable feature

Summary

21.02,
20.08, 20.02, 19.11, 19.08

Ability to send email to an end user from within a chat session.

Support agents cannot send emails to end users from Live Chat. Agents can send email from BMC Helix ITSM: Smart IT or BMC Helix Business Workflows.

Capacity-based auto accept

The capacity-based auto accept feature currently does not work.

Related topic

21-02-enhancements

 

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