3338607 - Phone number format requirements when using Agent Desktop

• You are using Agent Desktop (add-on) - Phone Number validation with CTI
• The customer wants to know the correct phone number format when using the Agent Desktop

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• SAP Cloud for Service
• SAP Cloud for Sales
• Agent Desktop (add-on)

• Sometimes some phone numbers may not return any search result in the Agent Desktop Global Search
• This happens even when the phone number is binding to an existing Business Partner (Contact, Indv. Customer, Account)
• For example, performing a manual search for +1  1234 5678 no search results, but using +1  1 234 5678 or +1  (1)234 5678 or +1  (1)234-5678 would work (where the BP number is formatted as +1  1 234 5678 )

• Incorrect canonical format used
• System is working as designed

• When performing a search (manual or via CTI payload), there is a difference when using  +1  1234 5678  vs +1  1 234 5678 (or +1  1-234 5678; or +1  (1)234-5678)
  • In the above scenario, the +1  1234 5678 does not return values; but why is that? 
    • Per E. 164 international standard, the number placement is important. E. 164 numbers can have a maximum of fifteen digits and are usually written as follows: [+][country code][subscriber number including area code]
    • In the above case, 1234 is identified as the area code, but this is incorrect, the area code in the above example should be 1 
• If the full number is used (no hyphens or spaces) or simply use spaces instead of hyphens, the search should return values, since AD will normalize the phone number
• For example,
  • Using +112345678, +1 1 234 5678, +1(1)(234)(5678)or +1-1-234-5678 would work the same, and search values would return. One could even use +1/1/234/5678. The point is that there should be a distinction from what is country code, area code, and number.
• It is recommended that when using CTI, the provider should send the payload as +112345678 (full number)

• SAP Cloud for Customer Phone Number Parsing and Formatting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 

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