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Demetri
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DemetriApprentice
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Customer of ours is unable to logon to freshdesk?

Getting {"code":"internal_error","message":"We're sorry, but something went wrong."} consistently when they are trying to do any action on freshdesk through links  Please see and advise accordingly PS -- They are using 2 different browsers, cache cleared and IT has already verified they can access so this is on the Freshdesk side.

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Demetri
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Karel_Vlček
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Karel_VlčekSkilled Expert
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How do I multi-language?

How do I do multi language translations of custom fields and names for (of) custom service items?

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Daniel Söderlund
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DTrowbridge
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DTrowbridgeApprentice
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Combining default views.

 Is it possible to combine ‘All resolved tickets’ and ‘Tickets I’m watching’ into one view? 

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DTrowbridge
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adairjunior
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adairjuniorApprentice
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Time based greetings

Hello guys.I’m new to Freshchat and I’m struggling to build a script that defines a welcoming message based on the current time. I mean, I’d like to welcome a customer with “good morning”, “good afternoon” or “good evening” depending on the time they send a message. There’s a predefined custom function that outputs the day of the week, but I wasn’t able to adapt it to my need.Would someone help me on that?Important information: I’m from Brazil and I’m using 24H formatting.

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Kamakshi V
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mharris
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mharrisApprentice
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New Forum Topic or comment notifications

How do I get email notifications any time a customer creates a new topic or comments on an existing topic in my Forum? As you can see at our forum here, we receive a lot of feedback/suggestions from our customers. We need to be notified every time a new topic is created or a comment is added to a topic.  How do I accomplish this? Any help would be appreciated!

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texasi
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sarahjacob2k24Apprentice
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Smartest way to automate support tickets for job inquiries?

We get a lot of daily queries from job seekers looking for updates on walk-ins and jobs in Abu Dhabi. I’m using Freshdesk to manage incoming messages but still sorting many manually.Any tips to auto-tag or route messages based on city or job type?

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paulg44
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paulg44Apprentice
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Forum category icons

Is there a way to add icons to forum categories the same way you can to solution categories? I would like to do similar as I have here: The settings cog icon or something else to replace the paper stack default  

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paulg44
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nathanveneContributor
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Help Widget Background Styling (Dark Mode Issue, white background)

Hi there,I’ve embedded the Freshdesk help widget into my app, which supports both light and dark themes. In dark mode, the widget appears with a white boxed background, which stands out awkwardly. In light mode, the background appears transparent and looks great. I think is some ind of error.Has anyone found a solution? Thanks in advance for your help!Best,

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Kamakshi V
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sarawomskiApprentice
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Freshdesk Update/Reopen with Outlook Reaction

Hello -Is there a way to stop an Outlook reaction from generating a response to a Freshdesk ticket, including if the ticket is closed and keep it from re-opening?I’ve noticed other posts about this topic but it seems to be for Freshservice and not Freshdesk. Thank you,Sara

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Josh B
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AreebaApprentice
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How to Fix Password Reset Key Error in WordPress

i have create new word press website i am faced the issue password reset how to fix this issue kindly tell me thanks. its website link here.https://www.alfalahw.org

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bigshooterApprentice
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Admin account that does not eat an agent license

Hi All,I would like to include an admin account in my Freshdesk instance that is there simply as the account admin.  It would not perform agent duties.  From what I can tell this basic admin account eats up one of my licenses.Is it possible to have an admin account without an agent role that won’t eat up and agent license?  This is similar to how office365 works, I can have admin accounts with not mailboxes tied to them ( the feature that eats a license)

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carlos97
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MichaelJMSkilled Expert
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Remove option to Add New Requester

I have been digging through permissions, roles, settings, portals, business rules, forums, and cannot seem to find a way to remove the ‘Add new requester’ option when creating a new ticket. Issue: we have Agents in both IT and non-IT workspaces who are creating Requester records for themselves or others because they are misunderstanding the intention of this button. Our Requesters sync from Active Directory, so we don’t WANT anyone manually adding requesters, as all of our requesters are internal. We need the ability to remove this option from everyone, as training/education of “please don’t use this button” is not working.

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RobCrossHM
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JaduApprentice
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Retrieve Historical Data from Freshdesk API to Power BI

I am trying to retrieve historical data in Power BI using Freshdesk API. But I can only retrieve data of 300 pages which is equal to 30000 tickets. i tried the updated since filter with pagination also. But didn't get data more than 2 weeks. Is there any way i can retrieve Historical data for 4-6 months.API link using to retrieve data - https://domain.freshdesk.com/api/v2/tickets.How can i get that amount of data in one go? 

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vrutberg
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vrutbergApprentice
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Configuring Apple private relay email service

Hello,I am trying to configure Apple private relay email service to work with our Freshdesk setup. This turned out to be way more complicated than I tought.I started by adding the domain and email adress we currently use to send and receive emails to the Sign in with Apple configuration: xxx-support.freshdesk.com, and support@xxx-support.freshdesk.com. They were successfully added, and Apple is correctly showing that there is no SPF verification for this domain or email address, as expected.I proceeded by following this guide to add SPF records to our own domain: https://support.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/43170-create-an-spf-record-to-ensure-proper-email-deliveryI successfully added these records to our DNS configuration, but Apple was at this point still showing SPF as being unverified. I figured that this was probably because we aren’t using our own domain name for sending and receiving emails.Now, as I am adding a support email address using our own domain, it seems li

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vrutberg
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SIVAKUMAR
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SIVAKUMARApprentice
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Oauth Error in Freshdesk

I've been trying to install the Freshdesk-Salesforce app, but it keeps throwing an OAuth error even though the client ID and secret are correct. redirect url that i used : https://oauth.freshdev.io/auth/callbacki just simply followed the below link for setup.https://support.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/50000009747  

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SIVAKUMAR
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Federico Euw
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Federico EuwApprentice
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Sending notification to agent when a note not his own is entered

Hello everyone,I need a notification to always be sent to the agent assigned to the ticket when a note is added in said ticket (so not only when the agent assigned to the ticket is mentioned)I have tried to do such an automation, but found the limitation in the situation when the assigning agent adds a note to their ticket. In fact in this case the notification still comes to him.Is there any way for the agent not to receive notifications of his own notes added to his tickets?Here’s the automation:  Thank you very much :D 

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Federico Euw
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nutricApprentice
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Line break problem in plaintext based email clients

Hi!I am in my last days of the trial period I am mostly happy with Freshdesk. However, there is one issue I can’t live with: the formatting of the emails when opened in a plaintext based email client. All line breaks are basically gone and the email is pretty much unreadable (see screenshot). I am certain it’s a Freshdesk-related issue because I have also been testing Zoho Desk and Zammad and the emails coming from those systems look absolutely fine. Does anyone know if it’s possible to fix the issue? I think, it’s probably a bug but I haven’t seen a way to contact the actual FreshDesk support.  Screenshot of email in plaintext email client 

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eeha0120
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mbsoulApprentice
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Whatsapp outbound message templates, using named parameters?

We are already using the Meta API for Whatsapp, we are migrating use cases to freshChat, i was able to send renditions of my templates during testing that did not have any parameters successfully, however we have some templates with named parameters NOT numbered like {{1}} etc, and params in the rich_template_data only shows {“data”:”example”}, how can i use this for the already named parameters? reference: https://developers.freshchat.com/api/#outbound_message_object

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RobCrossHM
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RobCrossHMSkilled Expert
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Feedback Form

Has anyone made use of the Feedback form (admin - Feedback Form)This could be really useful for us, but seems like i’m going to have to learn HTML to get it working, which is a pain when the rest of the system is configurable. 

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RobCrossHM
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shehzad331123
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shehzad331123Apprentice
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Creative Ways to Use Automation in Freshdesk for Personalized Customer Support

Hi everyone,I’m exploring how to make better use of automation in Freshdesk to handle repetitive customer queries efficiently while maintaining a personalized touch in responses.For example, I’ve set up basic automation rules to send acknowledgment emails, but I’d love to know:Are there any advanced or creative automation workflows you’ve implemented? How do you strike a balance between automation and personalization in customer interactions? Any tips for using automation rules to improve team productivity or customer satisfaction?Looking forward to your suggestions and examples! 😊Thanks in advance!

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Yusuf Ahmed
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JoDelApprentice
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See important Company info on the ticket

Is there a way to show important company information in a ticket - so that it is in the agent’s face?  They wouldn’t have to drill into the company details to see important information.For example If we make the Health Score ‘At Risk’, because we are concerned about retention and want to handle them with care.  Maybe they have OS AR and we want to forward to the accounting team, before we assist them.  Something like this that doesn’t come up often.How do we identify these companies when the agent opens the ticket?If there isn’t functionality for this, any thoughts how to use what is out there to do this - in our case, we are not using a lot of the available functionality/fields, so we most likely have an unused field that we can use to do this in some manner.

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Yusuf Ahmed
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markedmundsApprentice
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White border around widget help button

I’m embedding a freshdesk widget onto our dark themed application and everything worksexcept we are getting white border or spacing around the help button, which is extending all around the button and especially out to the left of it. So both the white spacing looks wrong and it also stops elements under the white being clicked which is confusing for the user when not in dark mode..I’ve discovered that the iframe the widget in is part of the reason why it expands to the left (the default 300x150 iframe sizing) and I can manually reduce it (example below) however there's still the white around the button?So - two questions - any idea why I’m seeing such a big white area - and why is it white and not transparent?What is also strange is if you click on the button so the widget appears, that has a transparent background as it renders the corners properly?Any feedback or insights would be very much appreciated?The problem occurs on both firefox and chrome. This is a laravel application, usi

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nathanveneContributor
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Remove background from freshdesk help Widget

Hi there,i’ve added the embed code of the help widget, but i appears boxed in white. Any idea how to make it disappear?best and thanks

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Moniquevanz
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MoniquevanzContributor
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How can I change the FROM email address, as a standard? That it's always the same, even when I have 10+ email addresses registred

We have lots of email addresses registred in the backend of Freshdesk (ticket receiving mail addresses). When replying to a ticket, the system picks one of these mail addresses as the sender of the response. How can we automate this, or change this, to one mail address of our choice?

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Gisèle
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GisèleApprentice
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Company & Organization + Ticket Access for a Client

We use Freshdesk to manage support requests from our external clients.Each client company may have multiple teams reaching out to us for support.Our requirement is to grant a contact access to all tickets of a specific team, without giving them access to all tickets of the client company.Is this possible in Freshdesk? If so, what configuration do you recommend?Thanks in advance for your help!

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