Ticketing & Agent Productivity

Hello Community :)  A new fixed column appeared this lunchtime on the ticket list.Unfortunately, I do not want this column to be fixed. Indeed, it has no added value in my processI want the same features as before this update. Thank you for reading 

Hey All, I wanted to check in here because my team and I have been dealing with this issue for a long time. Whenever we receive a negative survey, I always follow up with the customer to see if there was anything more we could have done. In almost every case, the negative survey was submitted by mistake, but there’s no way to reverse or cancel it without deleting the ticket—which we don’t want to do, as we’d lose valuable ticket history and summary information. One workaround I found is to reopen the ticket after confirming the survey was a mistake, send the customer an email letting them know I’m "resetting" it, and then mark it as resolved again. This triggers a new survey. However, instead of replacing the original response, it just adds another survey to the results. This creates issues with our metrics and analytics. Right now, the only way to address it in company meetings is by showing screenshots of the customer’s response confirming the mistake. I’m wondering if anyone has fou

If our company has support groups in different time zones with different defined business hours and I run a report for average ticket resolution time in business hours, how is the calculation done with respect to these groups? If they work on the same tickets will it be based on the group affiliation of the person resolving/ closing the ticket, or?

I had posted about this in the ideas section and as there has been no action, thought I’d post here too.The descriptive wording for the “Submit a ticket” box on the customer portal site is horrible and should be changed ASAP.Currently says:“Describe your issue by filling up the support ticket form”Better wording would be:“Describe your issues when completing the support ticket form” An even better option would be to give permission for admins to insert their own wording. I know that one can fix this on their own if they have the Pro or Enterprise editions of FreshDesk, but it doesn’t make sense for me to pay a couple thousand more a year, just to fix poor grammar.

Hello all, In our company, dashboards are a widely used functionality among the different departments. It is a key element in the day-to-day work of the agents.On several occasions we have encountered a bug in which ghost tickets appear, i.e. the dashboard shows us that X person has a ticket.  But when we click to go the list with the ticket, no ticket is there:  As I have said, this bug happened tu us repeatedly, and 2-3 days latter is back to normality. Has this happened to anyone else? And do you know if there is a way to fix it? Thank you in advance and best regards,David Carvajal

Hi all, I am new to Freshdesk and I want to use our extisting customer accounts (from the database of our company’s website). I want our customers to be able to create tickets on the freshdesk customer portal via their existing accounts created our company’s website. I can see that there is an import option using csv files, but I need an option to migrate passwords too.In the long run I need a solution where our customers need to register only one account for using our services and a support desk service too.Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks,Gabor

Dashboard numbers colorsWe need the color GREEN for dashboard numbers. As simple as it sounds, my team works better with numbers and I have noticed they hate not being able to get their yellows to Green. They see Red, and they work hard to get them to yellow, but that’s it.

Hi, There is a problem to create tickets :We are sorry. You have been restricted from accessing this helpdesk page.https://proginelectricite.freshdesk.com/Can you please help fix it ?Best,Flo

Hi, we recently have a joint customer account in FreshDesk who now want to go their separate ways. Even though the mobile number has been deleted from the contact to create a new account for the other customer, any calls and text are still creating and logging under the previous joint account. We’re aware we can completely delete the contacts to start from scratch but we don’t want to loose previous tickets/communications with the customers. Is there a possibility to have a function allowing us to unmerge customers or tickets please?

Hello,We are attempting to sync our contacts with Office 365. While we have successfully installed the Outlook Sync App, the synchronization does not initiate.Does someone know the necessary permissions in Office 365 to enable contact synchronization? Additionally, how can we manually start the sync process?Thank you.

Hello,We are currently using the "Out of Office Schedule" feature in Freshdesk and have implemented automation rules to prevent tickets from being assigned or reassigned to agents who are marked OOO for more than one day.However, we’ve encountered an issue: when a ticket isn’t reassigned as per the rule, it’s difficult to determine whether the rule isn’t functioning correctly or if the agent simply forgot to set their OOO status.Could you please advise on the best way to check or audit the OOO status of agents to confirm if the automation rules are working as expected? Additionally, are there any logs or reports we can use to verify these scenarios?Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Within a fixed period or last 7 days I want to be able to list all tickets and who was the first agent to respond to the ticket. I cannot find a curated analytics report that shows this, only who the current agent is. How have others been able to do a first responder tally by agent?

Hello!Please, I would like to hide certain custom fields in contacts, to certain agents. Maybe an app that allows me to perform this action, or how it can be done with roles, if they give me the configuration.I appreciate your help.

Is there a way to produce a report with median resolution time, an average resolution time of 90 percentile? 1 in 20+ tickets we receive will take significantly more time for whatever perfectly legitimate reason, and I’d like a report to be able to reflect the more typical experience a customer receives for typical incidents and requests.

Hello everyone, I have been scheduling exports at my workplace but they are sent as text files to my colleagues. How can I change this so that people receive a CSV or an Excel workbook instead?  

Hi I have a case where some employees can handle both NJ and NY tickets (the state is a field on the ticket level) and other employees can only handle NJ tickets. How can I ensure that there is an even load of ticket assignment between all my employees - meaning that the NJ only employees get more NJ tickets assigned to them because they aren't being assigned any NY tickets?  Any insight would be helpful. Thanks

For the last week my team has noticed performance issues with refresh rate of updates to ticket list view. Once a ticket has been updated to resolved or closed status when returning to the list view the ticket remains in the view with greyed out font showing closed status until we manually refresh the browser page. In the past this has not been the case. When returning to list view previously the updated ticket would no longer be visible in the view immediately. Is this a systemic cache issue that can be resolved by support or a browser setting that may have changed recently? This can cause issue with common views used by several agents.

Hello,I’m struggling with some tickets that are being automatically set as spam, but by all indications not by any Agents that I’m aware of.  Does anyone have any expertise in the area of Spammed tickets?  I understand how to un-Spam them, but how do I find in Freshdesk Contacts or Senders that have been labeled as Spam?  

Hello Our FD has gotten an update so now that View List stays open and more importantly when going back to the list focus starts in the Search for views.Meaning you have to clikc away in order to use Arrow keys etc. Very annoying.Is there a way to switch back to the old one that showed itself like a hamburger menu and then went away after you clicked the list you wanted?   

Ever since I’ve used Freshdesk, there are about 20 contacts with “@freshworks” or “@freshdesk” email addresses. They were simply there when I was onboarded. They clutter up my contact list. Is it OK to delete them? When I go to delete them, I get a pop-up message saying “When you delete a contact, all future communication from this contact will be marked as spam. Are you sure you want to proceed?”I just want to make sure I don’t miss an important message from one of them from a support perspective. Also, if I do delete a contact, say by accident, how do I stop them from being treated as spam? Do I just need to set them up again?Thanks in advance for any direction.Dave

I need to be able to report on activities created by Agents.  Filters should be by Agent, Date and clientHeader level is fine but i need to be able then drill into the ticket id to view the content Is this possible or can it be added as an enhancement request please

Hi, whenever I add an attachment to a reply via email, our customers receive a link at the bottom of the page to download the file, but it is added as a http link, so google chrome automatically refuses to open it.When you right click on it and use “save as...”, you can download the file, after disabling a warning “xxxxxxxxx.pdf can’t be downloaded in a secure way”.I’ve tried adding https to the link and I can download the attachment without problems. Why is freshdesk using http as default on attachment links if the https version is available? 

Hello there!I noticed, that when sending screenshots, it doesn’t show up in Outlook.Screenshots look like this (customer opened the ticket in Outlook):Attachements look like this (instead of being an attachement on the E-Mail itselfit’s a hyperlink to the attachement file): Why is that? / How can i change it, that the screenshots & attachements get sent with the email?

is there any way to disable the popup box when I mouse over any item in the ticket view window ? Sometimes they dont disappear and I have to mouse over other things to get them to go away so I can read whats under the popup box. It’s so irritating and I can live without any of the popups, so I want them disabled. ...Or is this something I have to install a popup blocker in my browser and blacklist part of our freshdesk page ?

We would like to request the ability to flag custom statuses as part of the "resolved" status group. In the default dashboard, there is a prebuilt "All unresolved tickets" filter that currently includes all tickets marked with status that is not ‘resolved’. We have created a custom status of ‘Scheduled’ that is being categorized as unresolved and being shown in the "All unresolved tickets" list despite no work needing to be done on that ticket until it’s scheduled time. Use Case:A ticket with a custom status "Scheduled" is pending reopen a month out but is currently being counted as unresolved in the dashboard. Categorize this status as "resolved" so that it does not appear in the "unresolved tickets" list until it reopens on it’s scheduled date.