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Set/Update Subject text using Automations

Related products:Freshservice
  • February 2, 2024
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MichaelJM
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This has been raised before and marked ‘Solved’ without really being solved. The “solution” I last saw presented was to use custom API integrations and web-hooks, but that isn’t a viable option for us.

We need the ability to update the Subject of Service Requests specifically when they come in. Specifically what I want to do is when a new employee request comes in, have the subject take information from fields in the Service Request. i.e. “YYYY.MM.DD | type of request | name of requested for” - so a new hire may be “2024.02.02 | New Intern | John Smith” 

There doesn’t appear to be the ability to update the Subject of a ticket in an Automation, unless I’m missing something. With how messy Service Requests come in (generic Subject, no Description) - adding the ability to Set/Update Subject AND Description would improve our Freshservice experience greatly.

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  • April 9, 2024

Would using placeholders in the Subject do what you want to do?

 

 


MichaelJM
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  • April 9, 2024

I was able to use placeholders for certain things, but unfortunately that’s only the Subject and what we really need is to populate the Description as well. 


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  • April 9, 2024

We’re running into the same thing, not being able to populate the description from a request.

There’s a lot of stuff that Freshservice does well, but there’s a lot of little things that do not make sense.