Using Freshdesk

Is it possible to to make it mandatory for a Tag to be entered in order to resolving a ticket? Thanks!

Hello FD Community,I am a long time Zendesk user that is making the transition to FD and find I am struggling on a couple of things. The biggest being custom ticket fields and the management of when an agent sees them and when they are required to fill them out. In Zendesk, you could have ticket fields that were only visible based on the form the ticket was using. Any fields that were not on the form, were not visible to the agent even if they were required on a different form. Has anyone figured out how to do that in FD? If so, please share your wisdom with me. Either I am just struggling to wrap my head around something or I am missing it all together.  Thanks in advance.

Hi,For our Freshdesk instance the Field Service Management module is activated.At my company it is tipical to send 2 field technicians on site to perform a repair activity.To create the on site calls we create Service Tasks from tickets.In a Service Task it is possible to define the responsible field technician.But this can be done by choosing ONLY ONE from the list of field techs.Is it possible to setup Freshdesk system to allow us to assign more than one Field Technician to the same Service Task ?Thank you!

Canned responses don't apply email subject change within its feature which force agents to add more steps to send a proper email, with a correct email subject, to customers.Email subject change should be automatically applied within the canned responses feature. It should help the agents loads of works from manually change it to just apply the canned responses. Please take action on this. Thank you for your kind assistance.

We have been working with the free version of Freshdesk Support desk, and most of our agents prefer to work through email.  We have configured FD so that all agents receive new inbound tickets… and are currently seeing all the traffic for each ticket. I think there is a profile setting for an agent to see traffic for only their assigned tickets...however, I can’t find the setting… is that available in the free version?    Many thanks.    --- L  

I have created a workflow with App Orchestration to SSH into a server and run a bash script that uses the aws cli to update some security groups. My workflow works fine to a point. It gets up to and runs the SSH script successfully via the orchestration server then workflow stalls waiting for something from a orchestration listener. I find no supporting documentation on this or if there is anything specific I need to echo or send from my bash script. The only errors I see in logs on the orchestration server state it is not sending to rabbitmq which did not get installed with the OSR. The server is online. It has internet access, however there isn’t even a execution log generated. Has anyone seen this or know what the communication issue might be?  Workflow is waiting for another event Orchestration Listener

Hello Experts,I have couple of queries related to decommissioning of password based authentication feature. link for one of our application as of now we are accessing the freshservice api’s using basic authentication, where we pass the api key of the agent in user name and X in the password and generate base 64. After May 2023 would this basic authentication be still possible? in general for api key based authentication, we pass the apikey name & value in header, but what is the keyname to be passed for fresh api’s? Is there any key header? /Deva

Hi,Sometime I received ticket that have some person in CC. I answer and wait for an answer from the person in CC. But when they reply I don,t have any notification on the ticket vs if this is the requester that is replying.How can i setup that?Thanks!

Is there a way to trigger an alert when a Knowledge Base article is added or altered?

Hi Community,I have 5 emails set up but lets focus on 3 here : info@acme.com, support@acme.com and orders@acme.com.If an email (ticket) comes into the business (to info@acme.com) and I need to forward it to orders@acme.com, I can ONLY do it from info@acme.com, it works fine and the reply goes back and its great.If the same email comes into support@acme.com and I forward it to orders@acme.com, the exact same as before, nothing happens.Can anyone help with this issue?Thanks

Hi All,We are experiencing an issue implementing a new theme in Freshdesk for our Knowledge Base. We have this with a paid and with a free theme so it does seem to be linked to Freshdesk I suppose. When implementing the code, everything is going well but the search bar still shows the default text and when searching something it does not preview any results. (when clicking enter it does show results but we would also like to see the preview.). See example of our situation: VS what we want/Freshdesk’s website. Any ideas how to solve this? Thanks,Thomas

I need a way to separate  Preventative Maintenance ticket from the Incidents ticket , how do you do so in Fresh desk? 

If a customer sends an email to ####@####.freshdesk.com it is taking more than 2 hours to create the ticket and the responses are taking more than 10 minutes to reach customers, there is a problem today?

I would like to ask if the contacts can login to mobile app? or only the Agent?

View Demo → Breezy Plus is a custom Freshdesk theme that combines the best practices of Freshdesk customization. Apart from standard features, it also has side navigation for more comfortable portal usage, categories with icons on the homepage, prev/next buttons for getting to the next and previous pages, and custom links in the header and footer. Theme Features Side navigation. Show categories, folders, and articles on inner pages. Prev-Next buttons. It adds buttons at the end of articles, which forward to the previous Article formatting components. Make your articles more attractive and easier to read with Tabs, Accordions, Callouts, Tables, Lists, Videos, and other options.  Responsive and Retina-ready. All our Freshdesk templates look great and work properly on all devices. 100% compatible with all Freshdesk features. The theme has been tested thoroughly to ensure that every Freshdesk function is fine-tuned and brings the highest level of performance to your customers. Cu

Hi.I generated an XML export of All tickets, users etc. from the Freshdesk account, but there’s no resolved-at or closed-at field. How can I calculate it? I may assume that the updated-at is the closed/resolved date, but I doubt it is always the case as there’re some updates that can happen to the ticket even if it was closed a long time ago.Does anyone have any advice on how to get those? This is a basic metric that is available via API, but how to extract it from XML file?Thanks!

We’ve been emailing invoices to our customers with a from address of our accounting team, and a cc address of our accounting team for the past 10 years. Reason being we want the accounting team to get a copy of the invoice as well as to receive any response from our customers. To: customer@xyz.comCC: accounting@us.comFrom: accounting@us.com We decided it would be better if our accounting team started to use Freshdesk so we change their email address to route to Freshdesk, but our email invoices didn’t create a case. Freshdesk support told us it’s because having the to address(actually it’s cc) and from address the same that it would create a loop so they detect and block case creation.... The explanation seems illogical, but regardless we can’t change how Freshdesk works…  Is there a way to accomplish what we want(create a case for invoices  emailed to customers, and if the customer responds the response routes to the Freshdesk case) via sending an email or are we forced to use their A

HiFrustrated here. Every time I try to export all tickets from Jan 1 to  current date I only receive the last 30 days. I’ve tried both MS Edge and Chrome browsers and they both give same result. The filter is “All Tickets” and the date range is pictured below.Can anyone help me get this working? Thanks

Hello all!First time messaging here.By default, Help Widgets have a field in them that is called “Your Name”. I need to translate this field label to another language (in this case, Finnish).However, I cannot find the field in either Ticket or Customer fields to rename it. Adding Finnish as a secondary language in the system did not update it in the widget either.Widget is used outside Freshdesk Portal.Any advice would be appriciated! 

Hello, When I create an article in our company’s Knowledge base, I need to customize it with code. I saw that there is a code view, but it seems that the HTML code I configure does not work as expected (I tested in a different environment and it worked). I am trying to code dropdown content buttons.Is it possible on Freshdesk system? If it does, what is the best way to do so? I want to have the option to click on a buttom with a subject, and that button will open a sub-article. I need several buttons inside one article. Thank you,Amit  

he API docs indicate that /api/v2/time_entries only returns time in hh:mm format. This results in inaccurate data when added up over hundreds of entries. Please add a field with hh:mm:ss.

What should happenAgent selects the ticket type Agent runs the scenario Scenario should set all relevant fields including the status to closed and save the ticket  What is happeningAgent selects the ticket type Agent runs the scenario Scenario should set all relevant fields including the status to closed and save the ticket Scenario errors because it thinks there is no ticket type – even though there is one picked by the agent already Current work aroundAgent selects the ticket type Agent hits update/save Agent runs the scenario Scenario should set all relevant fields including the status to closed and save the ticket This works

We utilize the Freshdesk here at CEVS, but curious, is there any way that it would update in “real time” instead of having to reload the page? Thanks for any words of wisdom! Connie HeinrichsColdwater Schools

Is there a way to view REST API usage data for an account for a given time period? The only way I know this is possible today is to check the `X-RateLimit-Total` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` response headers.

I am struggling trying to figure out what is a bug, and what is just not available in the free version.   The canned email for resolved tickets in the free version states that the ticket will reopen on reply.   I tested this and it does not reopen the ticket.    So, is that a bug or just something that is not available in the free version?