Add service catalog item to ticket after creation

This would be huge for us too. we rely on service catalog items to kick off tasks and perform some other automation, it would be great to convert an email ticket to a service catalog item.

Hi Bethanu and Jgalt,

  Thank you for suggesting this. We are planning to take this up

Regards

Shihab Muhammed

I see this as being very useful too.

This is insanely important to us. One reason it's so important, is that we value the fact that users don't necessarily need to use the Freshservice web interface to create tickets. If they e-mail a tech, even, we simply forward it and the ticket is created as submitted by the user. But if that user is requesting something, we would either need to tell them to resubmit what they just told us in the ticket, by logging in to the web interface and creating such a service request, OR we would do it ourselves. Either way is a hassle. Either the user laments the time they wasted submitting a ticket that turns out to be useless and they have to go into a web interface they never use and yada yada, OR the tech staring at the ticket needs to tell the user "I'll create a service request for you," close the ticket, open a new service request ticket, and yada yada. 

This shortcoming of not allowing a workflow between ticket types shows up, also, in the fact that service catalog requests cannot be fulfilled from the request itself. It's just a special kind of ticket, without any ability to act on it from within the ticket. To fulfill a request, the tech needs to separately go out to inventory and assign an item to the user. 

Which reminds me that since relationships are reciprocal, it should be possible to add  assets to users while viewing those requesters. 

Argh, worse -- am I right that product catalog and service catalog are separate? Users can request services but not products? So items in inventory are connected to products, whereas items users can request aren't? That's a real problem. If we want users to be able to request things that may be assigned to them, we have to actually create BOTH a product AND a service catalog item, that links to the product? That's kind of crazy, no? 

I'm beginning to think that there's far less integration between what users can request, what items are in inventory (CMDB), and what items are specified as particular products. 

Also, if a user wants a "headset", there may be 5 different models created as products. Wouldn't it make more sense, if those who create the products (and make it possible for users to request them as "service catalog items") are in control of knowing which specifications will meet particular user requirements, to be able to attach multiple products to a service catalog item? That is, a particular request for one KIND of thing, could be fulfilled by any of several MODELS (products) for that thing. 

I'm just seeing some serious deficiencies here as we consider whether to license Freshservice.