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Freshdesk: "Steps" App no longer works and its actually what we really need!

  • 8 November 2022
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Hi,

 

I was on a call with our new account manager and she pointed me in the direction of this app: Steps

 

From how she explained it, it was exactly what i was looking for after years of wishing FreshDesk had that functionality.. so I was over the moon.

 

Only to realise, the app is now deprecated and doesn’t install! The developer email just bounces too so its been completely discontinued 

 

Is there anyone with a known alternative to this app or anyone knows any devs/if FreshDesk is working on replacing it?


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Hi @Karl.Richardson 

 

Greetings from the Freshworks community!

 

The 'Steps' App that was available in our marketplace was a third-party application that we supported. 

​The third-party developers have deprecated the app from their end; we are removing the app from our Marketplace as well. 

 

Some of the other apps that help in creating to-do tasks are 'Mistertask' and 'Podio_tasks'. Please click on the below links for more details regarding them:

https://www.freshworks.com/apps/freshdesk/meistertask

https://www.freshworks.com/apps/freshdesk/podio_tasks

 

Apart from this, agents can also maintain a personalized To-Do list of tasks on the helpdesk's dashboard. Unlike the To-Do list within each ticket, which any agent who has access to the ticket can view, the To-Do list on your dashboard is visible only to you. For reference,

https://support.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/37588-using-to-do-lists
 

For creating To-Do tasks and set a reminder for the same, please check the below article:

https://support.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/232272-add-reminders-in-freshdesk

 

Feel free to drop a note here incase of further queries :)

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Hi @Karl.Richardson 

 

Greetings from the Freshworks community!

 

Hi @Aishvarya

 

Sadly these two apps are integrations with external apps.

 

I was hoping for a tool that would allow us to have Task-type functionality that we see in FreshService.

 

The ‘deprecated’ “Steps” app allowed you to create tasks based on Automations. Are there any replacements like that? 

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Hi @Karl.Richardson 

 

We can check the feasibility of achieving this by building up a custom app. You can loop in your dev team to build this app for you, and you can share this document for reference: https://developers.freshdesk.com/v2/docs/custom-apps/.

 

If you need this app to be developed from our end, we shall loop in the SI team, who would help in you building this application, and professional charges would be applicable based on the criticality of the app development. 

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Hi @Karl.Richardson 

 

We can check the feasibility of achieving this by building up a custom app. You can loop in your dev team to build this app for you, and you can share this document for reference: https://developers.freshdesk.com/v2/docs/custom-apps/.

 

If you need this app to be developed from our end, we shall loop in the SI team, who would help in you building this application, and professional charges would be applicable based on the criticality of the app development. 

Yeah please loop in the SI team, we need a quote for this as it’ll be super benficial

 

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