Contact Center Not Available Reasons (or N/A Reasons, NAR) are reasons that a user must specify after becoming idle, either through inactivity or by manually selecting a User States that Nimbus considers as "Not Available" (Away, Busy, DND). The reasoning must be provided via the Assistant app UI and is stored for Power BI as part of the Nimbus Reporting Model.

The Assistant UI, requesting and showing reason for each N/A phase.

Managing N/A Reasons

N/A Reasons are managed and applied in the Administration portal of Nimbus and must be assigned to users indivdually to take effect.

Creating N/A Reasons

1. Log in to the Admin Portal with any Administrator Role with access to the configuration
2. Head to Configuration > Not Available Reasons
3. Create or Edit any of the existing Not Available Reasons.
4. Define a Name for the reason.
   💡 This is also how it will appear for the users of Nimbus in other menus.
5. Set an Organization Unit.
   💡 Note that you can change the visibility of these reasons. Users will still get to select the reason until it is removed from their account in the User Administration. → See next step.

Creation of N/A Reasons in the Administration Backend

Applying N/A Reason to Users

1. Still in the Admin Portal, head to the User Administration
2. Select the user you want to edit.
3. ✅ Ensure that the user has a Contact Center license enabled so the N/A Reasons tab is shown.
4. Select the N/A Reasons tab.
5. Enable “Not Available Reasons”
6. Click "+Add" and provide at least one (or multiple) N/A reasons for the user to pick from.  
   💡 You can re-order the entries via drag&drop to make sure the most important reasons are on top.

Application of N/A Reasons to a User

Usage of N/A Reasons

Once assigned to a user N/A reasons can be provided when using Assistant as soon as a user went into a presence status that Nimbus considers as "non-selectable" User State, such as: