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Hello!Are there plans to upgrade the Apache version on Freshdesk instances to the latest version? There are outstanding CVEs on the current version that is being reported from our instance of Freshdesk (which is version 2.4.29). Best,Vlad
Sometimes our agents need to create a support ticket for someone else on their team to resolve. For example, the agent's printer broke so he creates a ticket by emailing at support@ourdomain.freshdesk.com. The ticket is properly assigned to another agent who replies with a pending solution.The dilemma is - whenever the agent that created the ticket replies to the other agent's response, the reply goes back to him when it should go to the agent who replied.Is there a solution for this dilemma?
Hi,I got an error “Check the rule configuration” when trying to edit “start_date” and “due_date” in an automation rule that already exists and has been edited hundreds of times.It started on 8th April, 2022.Prior to that, I have been editing the rule every morning and I’ve never got this error.Can anyone tell what is going on?
Good Day We have integrated our WhatsApp with Freshdesk, we plan to integrate 4 more numbers to allow my team to support clients. The challenge with this new integration is that we cannot setup automation rules to assign the chats from a specific number to a group in Freshdesk, all messages come through and remine unassigned, this is frustrating, since most of the tickets will be missed. Is there no way we can setup the automation like we do when we add an email in Freshdesk?
Hi, I’m new to freshworks. I’m unable to verify my company. How to fix it? can anybody help?
Hi,Is is possible to search tickets by the name of the agent that created them ?Please helpDavid
Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to trigger open the create child ticket form in Freshdesk.
He have a self programmed tool where contacts are stored with their E-Mail address. Is it somehow possible to programm, that when we would click on the Mail address, it opens a new tab with freshdesk on the New E-Mail page? Or are there any google chrome extensions that would work (we already have the click to call extension, which does basically the same but with phone numbers)? Thanks a lot
hey there guys -i’m a total FreskDesk noob - and i’m an intermediate CSS’er.I’ve changed up the header buttons to match a mock up that we’ve done, BUT it’s made other buttons go bad.Please see the screenshot and let me know if any of you have ever experienced this, and if so, how did you resolve it? Any insight and direction would be super helpful!!A bit of a time crunch on this one. it’s impacting the usability throughout the site.
I love using the team dashboard, but having a dashboard that was Agent centered would be Idealseeing how many tickets on an agent by agent basis and how many they have on hold and how many they’ve resolved would be magical. Is this something that exists? Would be an “admin” dashboard just to keep good tabs on the balance of things.
we have a customer facing portal, going to use Freshdesk Solutions to create articles for FAQ in Japanese. The main problem is “search”: Searching simple Japanese Texts DOES NOT work. It doesn't matter if they are separated by space or any character or if they are in one line. it does not work. I even put them as a Keyword in each line, it did not work. the same works for English texts.see belowscreenshot of article , note the two English and Japanese words added as Keywords: if I search for English text (works as expected ) if I search for a Japanese Text ( doesn't work while clearly separated in one line ):The only suggestion from Freshdesk support is to put the text we are searching between quotation. It works, but It simply does not solve the problem as it is a customer facing, we can not enforce users to do this all the time. Please note, the same applies if user search for anything, even full article name. we need a solution to let users simply search japanese texts without a ne
Hello, A while ago, we noticed that a Freshdesk account was automatically created for an external supplier that had been CC'd in a ticket by a customer. The account creation was triggered by his e-mail response. After reading stop account auto creation and reaching out to Freshdesk support, I have concluded that this is expected behavior by design.However, I'm wondering, is automatically storing personal data (name and e-mail) for a customer's external supplier GDPR compliant?If I look at the legal text found in the EU journal, chapter II, article 5, six possible grounds for lawfully processing personal data are listed, of which at least one should apply. To summarise: The subject has given consent Processing is necessary for performing a contract Processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations Processing is necessary to protect vital interests Processing is necessary to carry out a task in public interest Processing is necessary for the legitimite interest of the controller o
Hello,I am building a full integration of Freshdesk into a custom CRM I have built. I have managed to integrate various APIs but I am struggling with the “Reply as Customer” part.Here is my code:$body = $_POST['description']; $requester_id = intval($_POST['requester_id']); $post = json_encode(array( 'body' => $body, 'user_id' => $requester_id )); $api_key = getenv("FRESHDESK_API"); $password = "x"; $yourdomain = getenv("FRESHDESK_DOMAIN"); $url = "https://".$yourdomain.".freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets/".$id."/notes"; $ch = curl_init($url); $header[] = "Content-type: application/json"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$api_key:$password"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post); $response = curl_exec($ch); $decode = json_decode($response); print_r($response); curl_clo
Hi All - Is there any way we can get Realtime status of tickets in Excel without the need of using Export option in FreshDesk?
Hi, I have this odd scenario where one of our customer service agents consistently favors addressing newer tickets over older ones, and I’ve been racking my brain over how to force him to resolve older tickets first.This person is the son of the CEO, who I cannot get to care about this. Countless attempts to change this behavior have proven fruitless, so I’m looking for a way within Freshdesk that would force this outright.Is there any way to set up automation, or something else, that would make it impossible to resolve a newer ticket until an older ticket, or one with higher priority, has been resolved first? Am at my wit’s end. Thank you
Is there a maximum Field Length for Subject?
Priority fields are something we use to help automate the rest of our processes. Email alerts, escalation procedures and things of the nature. However if a customer can edit the priority field after the ticket has been created because they get impatient it can cause some serious issues down the line. An easy fix would be a check box in the ticket field editor under the customer options that simply reads as “customer can edit upon creation only” this would allow customers to set priority when the issue is created, but not edit the field after the ticket is created.
Hi there, I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to synchronize company and contact info with an external system. We have company and contact info in our main application, and it's partly redundant in FD. I understand why this is, but it would be really nice if a webhook could be triggered from FD to signal our application that relevant info has changed so we can keep the two in sync. I'm familiar with API development and pushing changes to FD from our application. But I'm not seeing straightforward info about webhook capabilities. I looked under Scenario Automations, but that didn't have what I was looking for. Then I wondered if webhooks are offered only at a higher service plan than ours. Any insight much appreciated!
Hi,We have a customer who asks for these features in Freshdesk Support Desk (formerly Freshdesk) and Freshdesk Contact Center (formerly Freshcaller):The capability to have a dashboard widget on time interval basis for ticket. For example at 08.00-09.00 How many ticket is Open, Overdue, Resolved and Closed and the same with 09.00-10.00 and so on. The capability to have time Interval field in the analytics report for ticket, and call module. This discussion has been raised on a Support ticket ID: 11517765 as Feature Requests with Freshdesk team and we were suggested to raise this discussion on the Community Forum that display a case might be related to other global customers/ users of Freshworks so these features can be possibly determined in the future product roadmap. Please keep us updated.Thanks.
I am a Freshdesk user. I would like to integrate it with an agile process. or adapt freshdesk to work ‘agile like’. Can anyone speak to their experience doing anything similar to this?
Is there any best practices that Freshdesk could handle internal incidents for ISO 9001 and 27001?
Hi, I ask here to see what you thinkI saw that there is integration with trustpilot, but I don't want to use it, as it would open a ticket for me.Instead, I would like, to know if it is plausible, to insert an automation.At the moment I have an automation, that after a preset time, transforms the ticket from resolved to closed.As a second action, an email with the customer satisfaction.I would like to add a third option, where automatically, a ccn field is added that always uses a dedicated email, which is the unique one made available by trustpilot.so as to leave trustpilot the honor of soliciting the customer to leave a public review.to date i haven't found any solution, except to do it manually.will there ever be the possibility to have this functionality?thank you very much
Hello, I don’t understand why the field TO is automatically filled and it’s prepopulated so that we can’t modify it. Would it be possible to change the product to have the possibilité to choice every time we want to change the field TO ? We use Freshdesk with an intern software, we create a ticket by sending an email to our customer from this software and we put our contact adress as a recipient to open automatically a ticket in freshdesk and have a record of this first email. Thank you,Pauline
Hello, I'm looking to customize a section of our Freshdesk support homepage, but I need some assistance. What I would like to do is have a 'Popular Articles' section that shows 5 most popular articles. I'm hoping I can do two things to accomplish this. Show 5 articles from specific Solutions categories that I define (not all categories). Filter the results based on the most popular article (i.e. most visited articles). So far all I can seem to do is... {% for article in portal.recent_articles limit:5 %} ...which shows the 5 most recent articles from all categories. This is a start, but not what I want.
Hi I want to embed knowledge base to my other website. But I don't want "New support ticket" and " Check ticket status" show on the same page. Is it possible to hide them? I've tried this but it doesn't work https://support.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/16184 Thank you
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