Using Freshdesk

I’m newly responsible for maintaining our knowledge base and I’ve noticed several pieces of text that are prone to changing and appear throughout the base. Product names, addresses, phone numbers, so on. It’d be great to be able to set a static variable that can be updated once and automatically change the content everywhere that variable is used. For example, lets say I set {OfficePhone}=555-1212. Everywhere I use {OfficePhone} in the Knowledge Base, it’ll display as 555-1212.  Next week, we change our number to 555-1213. Instead of updating it every page where {OfficePhone} appears, I just change {OfficePhone}=555-1213 and the pages update automatically. Is that possible?

Hi everyone,Currently, the majority of our contacts are associated with a company.We use a custom text field on the Company object called “VAT Number”, which is unique and works well to identify companies.Here’s what I’m seeing so far: I can successfully search for a company using the custom field VAT Number However, when I search for the same VAT Number in the Contact search, no results are returned Question:Is there a way to configure the contact search bar (on ticket creation) so that entering a company’s VAT Number will return all contacts associated with that company?Target functionality:When someone calls in: The agent asks for the VAT Number and the caller’s name The agent searches using

I’m making requests to bring ticket data and I’ve included the stats. However, I noticed that in some requests the first_responded_at field has a date before created_atExample: "created_at": "2025-08-04T21:17:28Z",        "updated_at": "2025-08-29T14:40:53Z",        "associated_tickets_count": null,        "tags": [            "PROD02221-594"        ],        "stats": {            "agent_responded_at": "2025-08-06T20:43:38Z",            "requester_responded_at": "2025-08-06T19:47:42Z",            "first_responded_at": "2024-12-02T21:53:47Z",            "status_updated_at": "2025-08-11T15:30:51Z",            "reopened_at": null,            "resolved_at": null,            "closed_at": null,            "pending_since": null What could be causing this?

Hello Freshworks Community,I’m looking for advice on how to automate workflows effectively in Freshworks products. I’d like to learn about practical tips, common challenges, and ways to improve efficiency using automation.

On the Freshdesk contacts page, how can I customize the fields/columns shown? I want to hide “Facebook” and “Twitter” and show a custom customer field (“Department”) that I created. Is this not possible on the Growth plan?

I have some tickets, that have been created internal and marked as a bug status. The problem is we do not respond to this ticket, which then triggers the “FIRST RESPONSE DUE” status. I have tried sending a response but this still isn't cleared.Any help is appreciated  

Hello, I’m trialing Freshdesk for our customer support flow, and would like to forward some tickets to it without involving IT and email mapping. Is there an email I can send to?I’ve been trying to forward a few tickets to newaccount...freshdeskcom...@....freshdesk.com, which is the the default configured freshdesk forwarding address, but there are no new tickets appearing.  What is the current method of testing Freshdesk? ThanksNitay

I set up an Enterprise Freshdesk instance independently for my team outside of IT since they were not ready to commit and now, they want to discontinue mine, set up a new Enterprise instance, expand it to other teams and basically take ownership. I spent a lot of time setting up the automations, fields, etc and we have been using Freshdesk for well over a year now. Is there any way for me to export everything I have created so I can import it into this new instance? Or do I have to manually recreate everything all over again?

An internal policy we have is to keep the conversation the customer has to the same agent whenever possible. I’m looking for a way to set the assigned agent as none if the assigned agent is unavailable and the number of agent responses on the ticket is 0.It appears automations can only reference agent availability for Update Automations, and not Time based automations.Any ideas on how to achieve this? Just not possible?We’re currently just telling the team to set themselves as unavailable half an hour before they end a shift but would prefer something more reactive.

Hi all - We’re in the process of rolling out multiple Freshdesk portals for different customer groups (like Client Support v Internal Support v Partner Support, etc), and we’re running into limitations with portal access control being applied to broadly at the account level.  What we’re trying to accomplish: Create separate portals for different customer groups/segments Restrict portal access by domain (e.g., only @companyA.com can access portal A, only @companyB.com can access Portal B). Avoid making those domain restrictions apply globally across the entire Freshdesk accountThe issue is that Freshdesk’s access control seems to apply at the account level, not per-portal, which makes it hard to lock down one portal to a specific customer group while still keeping other portals accessible to different domains. Has any successfully:Scoped portal access by domain on a per-portal basis?

I am attempting to set up a Webhook Freshdesk automation to PUT ticket data into my CRM. I need the company_ID in the data but cannot get anything to come through with the other fields.I have tried all of the following:{{ticket.contact.company_id}} {{ticket.contact.companyid}} {{ticket.company.id}}} {ticket.company_id}} {{company_id}} {{ticket.contact.department_id}}None of these returns any value at all. What is the correct tag for pushing the ID of the company?

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.

Due to security requirements, users have started sending digitally signed emails. But in freshdesk we just see “not given” and smime.p7m attachement is visible.Please support decoding or displaying the content of S/MIME encrypted attachments.  

Hello My company is currently evaluating FreshDesk and we have setup M365 as our inbound and outbound email When a user sends an email to support@node-red.tech the ticket is received correctly in FreshDesk but when a replay email is sent from FreshDesk we are getting the below error Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:postmaster@outlook.comYour message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it. Diagnostic information for administrators:Generating server: SYZP282MB3210.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COMpostmaster@outlook.comRemote Server returned '550 5.7.708 Service unavailable. Access denied, traffic not accepted from this I

Hi guysFor years Freshdesk has been assigning the proper Full Name of new enquires to our contacts when new tickets were created.  But now it doesn’t use the full name, but rather the 1st half of the email address.  Eg. if someone fills out a form and their email address is lucky123@gmail.com, the contact in Freshdesk is created as “Lucky123” - even if they filled in their full name.This changed when we updated the website and change WordPress forms from Formiddle to Fluent Forms.Our process was simple:Website visitor completes form → form email gets fowarded to unqiue Freshdesk email address → Ticket and contact is created from form info → Name is created based on the Full Name on the form (which was set as the “Sender’s Name” in the email settings.As mentioned, now with Fluent Forms it only used the 1st half of the email address (before the @) as the name.  So we have to manually update each new contact / leads name.Freshde

We have thousands of contacts setup who have never created a ticket with us.  In 2025 we’re launching our customer portal, and I only want to invite people who have previously logged a ticket, rather than all people who were migrated from our previous system.Is there a way to easily identify which contacts have never logged a ticket, and delete them?

Current flow:Customer send mail to support mail New ticket with status open is created Freddy replies with solution Customer does not react to Freddy: Ticket stays open → but what if thats already the “best answer”? Customer closes the ticket → everything is good Customer says the answer is not good My question: Wouldn’t it be better to set the ticket always to status resolved when Freddy gives a reply to the customer and only if the customer clicks “not good” or replies we open the ticket?How should our agents handle tickets that are open but already contain the right answer from Freddy?Are there any best practices?Thank you so much! 

When we use the Snipping Tool to get a screenshot to send to the customer for reference the customer can not see the image.  Any image we copy and paste in the Reply or a Forward is not displayed in the email for the recipient. This seems to have just started because we have been doing it this way with Freshdesk for over 10 years.

Hi Freshworks Community, Teams that have already migrated to Freshworks often say the result was positive—but only after learning a few important lessons along the way. Based on real migration experience, companies most often recommend:Spending extra time on data mapping to clearly define what the end result should look like. Cleaning up source data before migration—fixing 50 or 100 tickets in advance is far easier than correcting issues across 60,000 later. Running multiple test migrations to validate different scenarios and confirm all data is transferred as expected. Using an automated migration tool to make the Full Migration as seamless as possible.

Hi,I'l like to use powerbi to make some reports.I discovered this: https://apps.freshdesk.com/freshdesk_on_powerbi/Looks great.Then I received the mail below, then nothing.Do you know what I'm supposed to do?ThanksMatthieu

Hello!I am using Freshdesk, and have multiple customer companies. I have a portal set up for each company, with a custom url.I’m trying to get Freshdesk to be able to associate company A with company A’s portal and tickets, and company B with company B’s portal and tickets. I’d need the system to send the correct activation URL as well in the activation email. I am struggling to figure out how to do this. Is this possible? Should we only have one portal? If only one portal, how will the portal and system know to only show company A’s forms to company A users (and only show them tickets for company A as well). Thank you!

Hello all,As the title says, Is there a way to automate adding a to-do list to a ticket. I am looking to attach a list to a ticket based on certain conditions, so as whosoever picks that ticket knows what all steps are required to resolve it. I open to using 3rd party app. The endpoint to create a to-do list is also not available unfortunately. Thanks 

On my Freshdesk (as agent) I have displayed on the top “Switch to the new Freshdesk UI for a cleaner, more delightful experience. The classic UI retires on Mar 30, 2026.” Here are my questions :I’m not sure if the “table view” for tickets and the different ticket views (shared and local) are maintained in the new UI. With the Preview button, it’s not clear for me. Is it obligatory to upgrade ? What happens after Mar 30, 2026 when I do not proceed the upgrade Is a Rollback possible after the ugrade (one-shot) ? What preferences do I loose after upgrade Does the customer UI change also or not ?Best regards,Holger 

Hello everyone! I’m new here and just getting started with development in Freshworks. Right now, I’m trying to create my first app. I’m attempting to get a list of agents via the API, but something is going wrong. I’m getting a console error about an unregistered function. Even though I’m doing everything according to the documentation. If anyone knows what might be the issue, please let me know. manifest.json{ "platform-version": "3.0", "modules": { "common": { "location": { "full_page_app": { "url": "index.html", "icon": "styles/images/icon.svg" } }, "requests": { "getAgents": {} } }, "support_ticket": {} }, "engines": { "node": "18.20.8", "fdk": "9.7.4" }, "app": { "tracking_id": "aixfa4rlutw791e3iubp" }}

Is there a way to upload holidays in a CSV , cant be selecting one by one for each group Country holidays there sometimes not accurate