Setting your agent status

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<p id="docs-hc-snippet" style="display: none;">Whenomnichannel routingis enabled for your account, agents working inthe Zendesk Agent Workspacecan set a single, unified status acrossmultiple Zendesk channels(email, messaging, and voice). The status set by the agent determines when and what type of tickets from these channels can be routed to them with omnichannel routing.</p>
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<span class="attentiontitle"></span> If you're not using omnichannel routing, see <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408829114138" target="_blank">Setting your agent state for Talk calls</a> and <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/6937345201562" target="_blank">Setting your status for messaging and live chat</a>. For
more information, see <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408846501402" target="_blank">Understanding and setting light agent
permissions</a>.</div>
<p class="p">When <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409149119514" target="_blank">omnichannel routing</a> is enabled for your
account, agents working in <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821259930" target="_blank">the Zendesk Agent Workspace</a> can set a single, unified status
across <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409149119514#topic_hhb_2xk_3yb" target="_blank">multiple Zendesk channels</a> (email, messaging,
and voice). The status set by the agent determines when and what type of tickets from
these channels can be routed to them with omnichannel routing.</p>
<p class="p">Light agents can't use unified agent statuses.</p>
<p class="p">This article contains the following topics:</p>
<ul class="ul" id="topic_v4q_ksn_vrb__ul_blb_ztp_m5b">
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_zkk_xhp_m5b">About unified agent statuses</a></li>
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_xvw_ytp_m5b">Setting your status</a></li>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title2">About unified agent statuses</h2>
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<p class="p">Unified agent statuses are used to inform routing behavior for tickets from
email, messaging, and voice. There are four standard unified statuses for
agents:</p>
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<li class="li">Online - Tickets from voice, messaging, and email can be routed to the
agent.</li>
<li class="li">Away - Only email tickets can be routed to the agent.</li>
<li class="li">Transfer only - Only tickets that have already been reviewed and need
to be transferred to the agent can be routed to them.</li>
<li class="li">Offline - No tickets can be routed to the agent.</li>
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<p class="p">On Professional and Enterprise plans, admins can create additional custom
unified statuses for agents to use. When an admin creates custom statuses, they
define one of the default statuses for each channel that will be applied when an
agent uses the custom status. For example, if an admin creates a new status called
“In meeting”, they probably don't want the most time-sensitive channels of work
routed to agents with this status. In that case, they could set email to online, and
messaging and voice to away. That would result in agents with the “In meeting”
status only receiving tickets generated from email. </p>
<p class="p">Make sure you understand how to use any custom unified statuses that are
available for you to use.</p>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title3">Setting your status</h2>
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<p class="p">Agents set a single status for email, messaging, and voice. Before you
start setting your agent status, consider the following:</p>
<ul class="ul" id="topic_xvw_ytp_m5b__ul_gts_4tp_m5b">
<li class="li">When using unified agent statuses, chat operating hours won't
automatically set your messaging status.</li>
<li class="li">It's important that you set your status to offline before any periods of
inactivity, such as signing off for the day. Your status is only inferred if one
of the following events is detected:<ul class="ul" id="topic_xvw_ytp_m5b__ul_hts_4tp_m5b">
<li class="li">An agent closes the Agent Workspace without signing out (by
closing down their computer or browser window or putting their computer
to sleep)</li>
<li class="li">An agent’s connection is lost due to a network outage</li>
<li class="li">An agent is idle for longer than the idle status threshold defined by
admins</li>
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</li>
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<p class="p"><strong class="ph b">To set your status</strong></p>
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<li class="li">In the ticket interface, click your profile icon in the top bar and
select the status you want from the profile menu.<p class="p"><img class="image img-screenshot" id="topic_xvw_ytp_m5b__image_i4g_f1j_rvb" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/unified_status_selection_AW.png"></p>
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