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Visibility rules for Agents+Requester??

  • 22 February 2023
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Hi,

 

Is there a way that I can set “visibility” rules on Service Items that applies for all users, i.e. Requester + Agents?

I can’t find a way. If I for example would like to publish a service item for users in a specific location I would like that rule to apply all users but I do not understand how to achieve that.

We have quite many Agents spread across many departments and geographical locations and it will be difficult over time if we can not apply the same rules for them as they as employees in many situations are Requesters.

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Daniel Söderlund
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Hello, 

Not sure you wrote Not when you meant you know. 

For requester you need to use requester groups, Create & Manage Requester Groups : Freshservice
They can be dynamic depending of meta data on the requester. Makes it even mor imported that you import title and location of the requester. 

For agents you need to use agent groups but they are not dynamic so it will be overhead administration. You could create a new group only for the purpurs  of access. Then with a business rule you hide that group so no one can assign tickets to that group. It’s a bit complex but you can get it to work. 

You add the groups here

 

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Thanks for the response @daniel.soderlund 

I know that I can do those things already but I do not think that it is a viable solution for our organization. It will be hard to manage and administer this over time as those Agent groups will need to be managed manually as soon as new Agents are added or when Agents are changing organizations etc.

I’m putting in an idea for this.

 

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Dynamic agent groups would be nice as well. So you could control the access in AD 

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I have the following scenario.

There is a requester group “Coordinator”.

This group can access the item e.g. “Rent a Car ”.

Some coordinators are agents too, so they cannot access this item because they are not a requesters.

This item is only available for Logistic workspace agents. We have coordinators from many departments.

Now there is a gap from coordinators without access this item. I don’t want to add these item in IT workspace (e.g. for IT coordinators) because all IT agents will see this item.

 

Why an agent could not be a requester ?

Requester is not an agent (ok), but I think an agent must be a requester too.

Daniel Söderlund
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I have the following scenario.

There is a requester group “Coordinator”.

This group can access the item e.g. “Rent a Car ”.

Some coordinators are agents too, so they cannot access this item because they are not a requesters.

This item is only available for Logistic workspace agents. We have coordinators from many departments.

Now there is a gap from coordinators without access this item. I don’t want to add these item in IT workspace (e.g. for IT coordinators) because all IT agents will see this item.

 

Why an agent could not be a requester ?

Requester is not an agent (ok), but I think an agent must be a requester too.

Yes, it’s limitation in the system. 

The solution I have used is to create a Agent groups called they Coordinator, Manager etc. 
Added the agents as observers. Then added the groups to the service items. It’s not as good as having dynamic groups as you can have for sequesters. 

Created a business rule that hides the groups from the group drop down list for everyone. 

//Daniel 

 

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Hello Daniel,

 

Thank you.

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We have a similar issue here. 

We have multiple workspaces with IT as the primary. 

If we set a Service Item to be visible to IT Agents and All Requestors, that Service Item will not be visible for other Business Agents unless we explicitly add them as an IT Agent or change the Agent visibility to All Agents

It makes no sense that by default a user within FreshService is not seen a a requestor unless they have explicit Agent access to a Service Item. 

Is there any solution to this or feature request open? 

Daniel Söderlund
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We have a similar issue here. 

We have multiple workspaces with IT as the primary. 

If we set a Service Item to be visible to IT Agents and All Requestors, that Service Item will not be visible for other Business Agents unless we explicitly add them as an IT Agent or change the Agent visibility to All Agents

It makes no sense that by default a user within FreshService is not seen a a requestor unless they have explicit Agent access to a Service Item. 

Is there any solution to this or feature request open? 

You have this options and should be able to mix groups between different workspaces or select the whole workspaces. 

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Daniel Söderlund
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And Business agents can be member of the IT workspace, they get a view only access to tickets  in group that have access to. 

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We have a similar issue here. 

We have multiple workspaces with IT as the primary. 

If we set a Service Item to be visible to IT Agents and All Requestors, that Service Item will not be visible for other Business Agents unless we explicitly add them as an IT Agent or change the Agent visibility to All Agents

It makes no sense that by default a user within FreshService is not seen a a requestor unless they have explicit Agent access to a Service Item. 

Is there any solution to this or feature request open? 

You have this options and should be able to mix groups between different workspaces or select the whole workspaces. 

@Daniel Söderlund If we have ‘All Requestors’ have visibility, and all accounts are requestors then this should allow access irrespective of whether the same user is an agent in a different group to what has been set to have visibility. 

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