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Business Rules Search Flaw

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  • May 30, 2024
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mbutler
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I have a bunch of Inactive companies in my FreshService instance. I don’t want these to show up under Companies when I’m opening a ticket. No problem, right? I can do that with Business Rules, but I currently have 587 companies that start with zzzINACTIVE.

I try to hide them, but when I search for the string “zzz” I get a list of 30 companies (it stops at 30). I add those companies and then I want to select the next 30, but I can’t do that, because FreshService gives me the same list of 30 companies a second time.

So, I figure I’ll have to save between each one - annoying, sure, but doable. So, I saved and activated and then went back in and did the same search for “zzz” and I got the same 30 companies. It doesn’t look like the search incorporates those companies that have already been selected - this effectively sets the limit of items I cannot include to 30.

The problem? I have 587 companies I don’t want to include as an option when creating a ticket, but I don’t have a choice. I can only hide 30 of them because that’s the max results shown when I search for the string. This leaves 557 companies available that I don’t want to be there.

What would be really great, is if I had the option to say “Don’t include items that match this string”. Instead of selecting individual items, I’d be able to create a rule to remove the options and it would save me a bunch of work.

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  • May 30, 2024

I raised this as a ticket with support - this is an actual issue. Probably never affects customers who aren’t running in MSP mode, but this is a bug that needs to be fixed.


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  • July 15, 2024

*** UPDATE ***

To resolve this problem, I had to open a ticket with the support team. I provided the CompanyID for each company that I wanted blocked and gave them a rule ID. The support team had to modify the rule on the back-end to add all 587 companies.

While my issue is resolved, this will continue to plague new users who sign up and migrate data from old systems. This will be their welcome to the product. I believe the issue should still get resolved as the search methodology isn’t “good enough” - this needs to be fixed.