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Freshdesk Out of office - option for teamleads to set OOO for agents

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  • December 8, 2022
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AndreasB
Apprentice
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Good day everyone,

we struggle since months with that and already have a ticket raised twice (one is a feature request now).

 

Now I would like to find out if we’re alone with that problem:

We’re using the out of office function to trigger workflows if agents are not available. When we’re facing unplanned absence (sickness, forgot to set their outofoffice) from one of our agents, we’re not able to set a out of office on behalve of them. 

If tickets of an absened agent receives an update the team does not receive any info about that and a customer will be left high and dry! #noGo

The app Freshdesk Out Of Office Integration | Freshworks Marketplace covers that function but it does work with workflow automations! :-(  

 

So we need urgently an option in the standard function, that our teamleads can set the out of office on behalve of agents in their group! 

 

Is anyone also missing this option? Looking forward to your upvotes! :-) 

 

Cheers

Andreas

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julia.a
Top Contributor ⭐
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  • Top Contributor ⭐
  • December 12, 2022

You could set up an automation that automatically sends an (out of office) e-mail to the requester,

once a ticket from Agent Y has been on Open for more than X hours or right away once a ticket from Agent Y goes to Open.


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  • Apprentice
  • March 8, 2023

We also miss the option for administrators or team leaders to set absence from/to date on other agents. Right now we’ve got an agent in hospital, and she is unable to sign in and set up her absence herself…

I’ve checked the API doc, and can’t seem to find any way to do this through the API either.

We’ve got about 50 agents, so we’re likely to hit this issue again...


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  • Skilled Expert
  • March 31, 2023

+1!


  • Community Debut
  • July 31, 2023

This is also an issue for our team leaders.

 

1 alternative is to assume the identity of the person via the admin panel and set the OOO. This will not work if the person out is an administrator.