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Just a quick note about using custom fields with the API.1. All fields must be between a single set of <custom_field></customfield> tagsExample<custom_field>   <custom_field_one>$value1</custom_field_one>   <custom_field_two>$value2</custom_field_two></custom_field> If you use <custom_field> tags for each field, you will get an error.2. Custom field names are not what you think.   The best way to discover them is by looking at the source of the ticket submission form.  You can also use this to devine the possible values of dropdowns.3. Many more fields are available.   If you look at the return, it will give you an idea of what can be set - quite a lot of these are not in the docs...HTH someone and you won't have to spend hours guessing how it works.Chris.

Both mentioned templates have no upper-right corner link that allows you to add the system variables. Must be a bug as these templates support these kind of insertions.

Is it possible to set default state to "Open" when creating a new ticket?Is it also possible to set "Agent" to myself as default when creating a new ticket?

I have tried to include the parameter &helpdesk_ticket[email_config_id]=1000026583 in the query string to invoke the widget (1000026583 is the id for the product taken from the Email Settings page) however the widget still comes up blank instead of being defaulted to the specified product.Is this working?  Or is there another way to do this?

Anyone else have this issue?We setup Jira Integration to add private comments in FreshDesk when a comment is made in Jira.  It works for a while, but then we noticed it stopped recording twice.  We thought it was due to the Jira account not having admin rights (even though we were told this was only initially needed to setup the webhook)The account has Admin rights, and it has happened again.

Hi all,I'm not sure how many of you are aware of this but I have since found out that in reports when you look at the SLA % it is a metric solely focussed on when a call is resolved not taking in to account the response time SLA.I would of imagined that surely if you have a "response SLA" and a "resolution SLA" that these metrics would appear in reports separately.I've spoken with those at Freshdesk who have advised that the response SLA isn't even stored in the database in order to run reports.I'm pretty disappointed with this and wondered if anyone else has come across this or were even aware of this?!I've been told there is a "major overhaul" of reports coming from the ground up but who knows how long this will take...GrantMood: Shocked and unhappy

I would like to use the API to pull recently modified/updated tickets (they appear to be sorted by date created).  I cant find anything in the API documentation or support forums but is this possible?

Hi there,Is there a way to change the subject when replying to a ticket? I know there is a agent reply template but that doesn't allow me to modify the subject of the e-mail that is sent to the users.My problem is that Google Apps (GMail) includes the original e-mail sent to the helpdesk email and removes the [#ticket number] from the subject when a reply is sent back from support agent if you are in conversation view. This means when the user now tried to reply via e-mail, the [#12] will be missing from the e-mail subject. When that happens, every-time the user respond, a new ticket will be captured in the system. I want to be able to make significant changes to the subject so that GMail will not capture the reply as part of the conversation view (otherwise my current work-around is to get everyone to turn off conversation view which is rather tedious) Conversation View On:

We white label our solution (different customers of ours have different branding/skins of our product). Is it possible to utilize multiple freshthemes for the same freshdesk site accessible via different URLs?

Two issues that I have noticed.1) when a ticket is in "pending" status shouldn't it freeze the time counted against the SLA? For example if we have a 3 day SLA but we have to order a part we would probably never get those within the SLA time frame. It doesn't seem to be doing that. 2) on the reports it computes the SLA compliance but is including tickets that are still open. Example... 10 ticket received, 7 were resolved all within SLA... the 3 tickets are open but still not out of the SLA range... but it's showing 70% compliance. It should only include resolved or closed tickets to figure SLA compliance.

Not sure if anyone can help me with this. Its not really a feature I would expect freshdesk to accommodate but maybe there is a way round my problem using a web macro, filter or tool of some sort. Some emails we receive are from advertising portals we pay money to advertise on. E.g. we sell houses so we recieve emails from buyahouse.com The emails we receive from buyahouse.com say they are from buyahouse.com and so a new ticket is in the name of buyahouse.com, although in the body of the email we recieve th actual reqester's name, details and details of their request Is there any sort of tool which would receive an email, extract the email address and name of the requester from the body of the email and then resend this to freshdesk so the name and requester is correct?

Is it possible to add in links along the bottom bar? Where it says "Help Desk Software by Freshdesk" - it would be great to have the abilty to add in some extra links along here.Primarily my reasons are I am adding legal specific advice to my solutions section and I need to add in a link to "terms of use" to state "all information is intended as a general guide and should not be relied upon as fact..." etc etc. It would also be great to link back to our main website along there and our privacy policy etc.

Hello, I wanted to create a account using API : http://www.freshdesk.com/api/api_users/But not sure how to execute this script: curl -u {username}:{password} -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d"{UserName}{user@customercompany.com}" -X POST http://{yourhelpdesk.freshdesk.com}/contacts.xml Is it possible to do the same using PHP script OR do you provide any sort of PHP documentaion to execute above script in php. I am familiar with PHP curl (http://davidwalsh.name/execute-http-post-php-curl) but not sure how to send request and get response from freshdesk using your current API sample script. Thanks in advance.

I have 5 Dispatch'r rules that used to add a persistent CC to a ticket based on email domains from various organizations around the state.  This worked great for CC'ing "manager"-type customers and keeping them in the loop for issues submitted in their region.  Now the rules seem to send a notification through the Email Notifications -> CC Notifications template, but doesn't add the CC to the ticket.  This informs the intended CC that a new ticket was created, but then subsequent replies from agents and customers are not automatically CC'd.I can track the lack of CC's back to around Nov 20-23, 2015, but have just heard about it now.  Was there a feature update in the Nov 9th notice that could have effected this?

We have moved our articles from our own forum (ie http://www.cloudiway.com/forum) to freshdesk (with a CNAME support.cloudiway.com).This was about one month ago.Now, we have completely disappeared from Google where we used to be in the first page for a lot of searches.Do you know what's happening, and a good way to improve the results?

 Hi,I'm able to successfully import some tickets via the json API.Also, I'm able to change attributes of existing tickets via the same API. However, I noticed that the ticket "description" field (the content of the first post within a ticket) is not updated even though the reply I get is "200 OK" and all other fields are successfully updated.Has anybody encountered a similar issue and why the description field cannot be updated?Thanks in advance for any feedback.

If the setting "Make captcha compulsory while submitting ticket without logging in" is enabled and a Freshdesk user is logged in via SSO (Single Sign On), the user sees the captcha, while it is enabled only for unlogged in users.

The formatting on the Satisfaction Survey seems to get messed up in the emails it's sent in. Sometimes the icons are on one side of the page and the text on the other or the first item will be centered and the others aligned to the left vertically.We've tried including it automatically, agent selected and created a canned response - doesn't seem to make a difference.

How can Freshdesk auto delete tickets that are marked as spam?

Hi, I have a question on creating a ticket. here is the code I use from https://github.com/freshdesk/fresh-samples. var yourdomain = 'mydomain...'; var api_key = 'my key...'; var ticket_data = '{ "description": "Details about the issue...", "subject": "Support Needed...", "email": "tom@outerspace.com", "priority": 1, "status": 2, }'; $.ajax( { url: "https://"+yourdomain+".freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets.json", type: 'POST', contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "json", headers: { "Authorization": "Basic " + btoa(api_key + ":x") }, data: ticket_data, success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) { console.log(data); console.log(textStatus);

See attached.  This does not exactly instill confidence.

Hi guys, Would it be possible a Gilab Integration?Thank you and please!!!!:)

I am trying to create a ticket via PHP, however, it is returned an error when trying to create using passing the due_by field. $ticket_data = json_encode(array( "description" => "$description

We just had a situation where we replied to a forum notification and it created a ticket. Is this normal behavior? If so, this is certainly an issue as the customer has no way of knowing that this would occur -- there's no way to edit the template.

When replying to a ticket the previous comments are appended to EVERY comment - This makes the print function practically useless.Are customers also receiving the full conversion on every comment notification.