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I’m looking for some best practices for organizing a growing Knowledge Base in Freshworks. As the number of articles increases, it can become difficult for users to quickly find the information they need.What structure, categories, tags, or search practices do experienced Freshworks users recommend for keeping a Knowledge Base easy to navigate and maintain? Also, are there any common organization mistakes that should be avoided?

Is there a way to turn off the SLA time within the Android FreshDesk app? I have it turned off when I go to the admin - workflows - ticket fields - status settings, but when I open the app on my phone, I still see the alerts “OVERDUE” and “RESPONSE DUE”. I would like to have those turned off, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Every time we reply to a ticket the default text it enters is Hi <Firstname> <Lastname> Is there a way to change this to just the firstname?  Every agent we have the first thing they do is have to edit the first line. 

Hi everyone,I'm running into an issue with the Freshdesk Customer Portal and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.We have customers who are configured to view all tickets belonging to their company.However, we're seeing different behavior between customers:Customer A can see all company tickets and has a “blank” (All) option in the Created By filter. Customer B and Customer C have the same intended company-wide ticket access, but their Created By filter only shows the individual members of the company. There is no “blank” option. Because of this, B and C are unable to select a single option to view all company tickets.This functionality worked previously, and Customer A can still use it, so we're trying to understand why it is only missing for certain customers.What we've triedWe verified that B and C have the permission to view all tickets belonging to their company.We also tried:Disabling the company-wide ticket visibility permission. Saving the contact. Re-enabling the

Hi everyone,I'm running into an issue with the Freshdesk Customer Portal and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.We have customers who are configured to view all tickets belonging to their company.However, we're seeing different behavior between customers:Customer A can see all company tickets and has a “blank” (All) option in the Created By filter. Selecting this option populates ALL tickets belonging to their company. Customer B and Customer C have the same intended company-wide ticket access, but their Created By filter only shows the individual members of the company. There is no “blank” (All) option. Because of this, B and C are unable to select a single option to view all company tickets.This functionality worked previously for Customer B and Customer C, and Customer A can still use it, so we're trying to understand why it is only missing for certain customers.What we've triedWe verified that B and C have the permission to view all tickets belonging to their company

Hello Freshworks Community,I’m reaching out here because I have an urgent billing/invoice issue and I have not received any response from the official support channels.I have already contacted:support@freshworks.com billing@freshworks.comHowever, I have not received any reply so far, and my issue remains unresolved.This is becoming quite frustrating as I need clarification on my invoice urgently for finance reconciliation purposes.Could anyone please advise:Is there another support channel or escalation path for billing issues? Is there a direct account manager or escalation email for urgent cases? Has anyone experienced faster resolution through a different Freshworks contact method?I would appreciate any guidance from the community or Freshworks staff on how to escalate this properly.Thank you.

How we can send Attachments via Webhook Trigger from Freshdesk Automation? 

Hi,I’m trying to use the Freshdesk-Slack integration..I added some new public channels to our Slack in order to redirect the notifications there, and when I’m trying to add these channels to the Access Public Channels, they are not in the list of choices.Any idea on what the problem might be?This is happening only with the public channels, if I create a private channel it appears in the Access Private Channels list immediately Thanks!

Hi everyone,I am exploring whether Freshdesk could be used to organize FAQs, contact enquiries and support content for an independent WordPress information portal covering skills development opportunities for women in Punjab.The website already contains application guides, eligibility information, training details and frequently asked questions. I would like to understand the best way to connect this content with Freshdesk without duplicating everything or negatively affecting the existing website’s SEO.Would you recommend using Freshdesk Knowledge Base categories, embedding selected articles in WordPress, or keeping the knowledge base on a separate support subdomain? I would also appreciate advice about multilingual content, analytics tracking and maintaining consistent branding.Thanks in advance for any practical recommendations or examples.

Hi,I cannot setup Freshdesk app.It does not recognise the url (copied and pasted from working desktop). It will not send a reminder. “unable to send a reminder at this time”. It has been saying that for 12 hours.Brand new Lenovo tab M8.  Android 13.Any ideas please? 

Hello, we are increasingly having the problem that messages cannot be delivered. Although the customer has already received emails from in the past.  #Here are two examples   

I am looking at turning off emails to our IT portal to encourage more tickets to be raised by the self service portal.Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Has anyone been able to sucessfully implement this?Also, I suppose the question would be…. how do I do this?

Hi,  Can some share a design for support ticketing system he created ? We have 4 different saleforce team I need a design how to handle workflow for the different teams Thanks

Is there a way to prevent agents from removing themselves from auto ticket assignment? We are having issues with this which is causing uneven ticket distribution to our groups.If its not possible is there a way to bypass their do not auto assign status in another way?Does anyone else have this issue? 

I’m wondering if/when it will be possible to remove this indicator from a ticket. It’s annoying to be trying to visually scan the ticket queue and not be sure if I’ve already addressed something. Sometimes customers send auto responses, “thank you,” or “give me a few days” messages that don’t need an immediate response. I see that this is an issue that was brought up previously and the discussion was closed two years ago with a “bear with us” message. Any actual updates on the status of that change?

I am submitting this as an enhancement, as this functionality does not exist, to my knowledge. There have been a few requests/questions around this topic, but it appears they have all been archived, or the original need has not been captured. We receive tickets through various channels where we need to set or update the Subject for appropriateness and data governance. When tickets are received/created - the original requester email sets the ticket subject. We need the ability to set/update the subject using Automations, Scenarios, and Canned Responses. That way, when we programmatically or manually respond to the requester, the email subject line appears per our Company Policy and branding guidelines and provide consistency for data governance purposes. Furthermore, it is inefficient for end users to update these manually.

Hello.I’m wondering if there is any way to add a navigation menu to our knowledge base. When reading an article, the left pane shows “Related Articles” but if we wanted them to be read and followed in a specific order, it’d be much more helpful to have the entire Solution tree as something that can be made expandable. Sounds like basic functionality, but I can’t find how to make it work.Something like:Category A Folder 1 (expandable) Folder 2 (expandable) Folder 3 (expandable) Category B Folder 1 (expandable) Folder 2 (expandable) Category C Folder 1 (expandable) There wouldn’t be a need to always go back home. I know we can directly link from one article to another but that’s not what I’m looking for. Any help will be appreciated.Thank you.

Hello Freshworks,I use the font Verdana and set the font size to 14, but It looks 9 in the article.Why is it inconsistent?On google docs, the font is still showing correctly.    

I’m looking to see if anyone is using Freshdesk for internal tickets, as well as customer tickets.We have Freshdesk deployed, and despite only being 3 months in, we’re using a lot of functionality.I’m looking to see if we can decomission the tool that we use for internal tickets, but I can’t see how I can associate an agent with our internal company - to then create some views/email alerts for internal tickets.Currenty, an agent can log a ticket against thier own name, but it gets lost within the customer tickets.Is anyone doing this, or have you a seperate instance of FreshService (or another tool), for internal tickets?

Is there any way of removing the Customer responded state when all the cust has said is "thanks" etc?I find I have to keep clicking on a case to check if they need to be replied to.Our issue is with things that some groups (such as Developers) will keep in pending status (potentially for quite a long time) and which Support would keep an eye on in case the customer replies and needs a response.At the moment, a "thanks" email will flag it as Customer Responded forever, meaning we have no way to know if a subsequent, more substantive response has arrived without clicking into the case.I have seen Thank You Detector - however it looks to only deal with closed or resolved cases, which we would have no issue with as we can just close or resolve those again.

I've reduced my images' size, but they're still getting cut off on mobile. I can't shrink them further. Is there any code or workaround I could use to fix this?

Hi! My company has a portal for Solutions (articles) and another for Support (tickets). I would like to have a place to present videos and other information for new customers to explain them how account configuration works and guide them. Should I create a new portal or a custom section in the theme (we have a custom theme with Breezy)? I’m not sure what is possible.    

I am trying to re-order my solution articles manually but currently this doesn’t seem to be working.I can select to order them as “created by” or “A-Z’ etc. But when I select Manually it reverts back to default ordering and I can move the articles but they “snap” back to where they originally were.For context I have Admin and Agent permissions.Any help or known issues would be appreciated. I haven’t found any answers searching so far.

We have tried to add dependent fields to our ticket form, but they will not drop down when you go to submit a ticket in the portal. Does anyone have any solutions or similar problems?

I’ve been using Freshdesk now for 18 months and it’s great. We’re really seeing the benefits and starting to onboard more clients and products.  However, with expanding this is now throwing up some problems as the products differ.  For example I have two products, Product 1 where I want customers to sign up to the portal and have multiple interactions. Product 2, I want the customer to share information one a singular transaction and nothing more.  The problem stems from the activation email, it will email both customers after 5 minutes and invite them to sign up.Product 1 has a need for this activation email, Product 2 does not and this creates confusion. If we could skip activation email via the automations (like we skip notification email) this will help solve my problem.