Report help
is there a way to create a report for incidents based upon the time the request was created that shows what time of day the request was opened not the date we are looking to see what our high call volume times are and when our low volume times are for example. something similar to below we are looking to how we should staff our service desk for the best coverage August 00-01 4 request 01-02 0 request 02-03 0 request 03-04 1 request Etc.... Sept 00-01 4 request 01-02 0 request 02-03 0 request
Change Management with Overdue Notification
Dear Sir, Can we configure the overdue notification in change management? for ex: if the change has reached the schedule end-time but the status is not yet "completed", then system will send out the email notification to the technician and the CAB members. Thanks a lot. Regards, Alan
Email Commands
Hello SDP Support, SDP doesn't have the ability to send mails on closure via businessrules, so I was trying to find a workarround. In my scenario I send out an notification with the notification rules, when a request is closed to a specific email adress. This adress is the same I use for SDP to send emails. So now I want to use the email parser to to set a specific value in the field mode. Would it work now with busines rules, that the value will be set after the request was closed? Will there ever
API: how to set timezone
Hi, I'm currently trying to figure out how to use your Site API. Was successful to some extend, but one thing I just could not figure out: how to set the timeZone via the API. No matter what I try, there is no value selected when viewing the site in SD+. After selecting some timezone in SD+ and saving saving in SD+, the timezone is saved. So what do I have to use? What I tried: - "value" field of the SD+ select box (e.g. "301" for Europe/Berlin) - the complete string of the SD+ select box (e.g. "(GMT+1:00)
Missing "Subcategory" & "Item" columns from the User's Request page
In the Requests page when the users log in, the columns "Subcategory" and "Item" are missing from the columns list, only "Category" is available in the . We need to display the column "Item", this very important. However when the technician login, the columns "Subcategory" and "Item" are available in the column list and can be displayed. Please advice. Regards,
Tech Assignment
Is there a way to use a busines rules, or some other feature to help auto assign assignments in the following scenario: 3 Techs Tech 1 does 80% tech work 20% Server Administration Tech 2 does 80% tech work 20% Network administration Tech 3 Does 20% tech work 80% Server administration 5 sites site 1 = techs 1 and 2 get assigned requests site 2 = techs 2 and 3 get assigned requests site 3 = techs 3 and 1 get assigned requests site 4 = techs 1, 2, and 3 get assigned request site 5 = tech 1, 2,
Purchase order Question, same products from differnet vendors
I have another question with raising POs. We routinely purchase items from a number of suppliers/vendors to ensure we get the best price. It seems that when we try and raise a PO in SDP, for a product that we have previoulsy ordered from a differnet supplier/vendor (reseller), then we cant order the same product item form a differnet vendor/supplier (reseller). We get this error
8017 Hotfix released
Dear Users, Hotfix SDP 8017 (which can be installed over 8000) has been released and can be downloaded from the below link. http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/service-packs.html Refer the below URL for the list of Features / Issues that has been went in this Hotfix [8017] http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/readme-8.0.html Also, please refer to the below link for the steps to install the patch. http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/service-packs.html#sp
Disallow users from seeing categories
Hello When setting up preventative maintenance tasks it makes sense to use Categories and maybe sub-categories and Items along with them. However, you probably don't want your user base to see some of those categories with their associated sub-categories or items. For example, you might have a Category = "Backups and sub-categories "Initialise Backups" and "Check backups". You might not want the average user submitting a ticket with backup as a category so it makes sense to add a flag the admin
Special Characters in CSV import
When importing asset data using the CSV format, SDP does not properly process special characters such as the Umlaute in German or accented characters. Trying to import CSV files which have been stored in the Unicode format (UTF-8, e.g.) result in SDP displaying the message that the language is unsupported. SOLUTION: Store your CSV file in the Unicode format (UTF-8). Edit your CSV file using a Hex editor (that is an editor which shows the content of the file as Bytes or Octets and not as characters).
Windows 7 - Connection to RPC server in the workstation failed.
Hi all, I am currently in a phase of deploying Windows 7 OS. I am trying to do a scan of the Windows 7 Laptop. I get the following error. For Windows Xp, I have no issue. I have already disable UAC and we do not use agent in our Env. We are using Version : 6.0.0 Build Number : 6013
Roles
I want a technician to be able to create a reply template (located in the admin module). Can I do this without making them an admin? Furthermore it would be helpful to be able to give a permission to allow access to everything except the reports module which may contain sensitive information.
Another Purchase order Question
when I wish to raise a PO for a software item, I only seem to be able to add sofwtare items that the system already knows about. THe software item list seems to be populated by virtue of sofwtare that SDP knows about when I have scanned devices. If I am buying a pirce of software for the first time, it will not have been instaleld, SDP doesnt know about it so its not in my known software ist. How can i manually enter a new sofwtare item into my PO. Thanks
Want to allow custom role with permissions to edit incident template and service catalog
Hi, I created a custom role for some technicians and wanted to know if there was a way to allow that group to edit incident templates and the service catalog without having full SDAdmin priviledges. Is there a way to do that? Thanks, Leigh
Register for SDP 8.1 Beta
Dear Customers, The ServiceDesk Plus 8.1 Beta is ready. Please register for this Beta in the below given URL, http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/sdp-portal-registration.html We will provide beta access in batches. Thanks & Regards, Jeykar SDP Team
Agent based scans
Hello, My IT department is trying to switch over from domain scans to agent scans. We disabled the scheduled scans, domain scans, and network scans and then we installed the agent (with scan on startup enabled) on one virtual machine for testing. When the virtual machine starts it's scanned and posted in ServiceDesk as planned. However, anytime a member of our department starts a different virtual machine that virtual machine also appears under 'assets.' My question is: Why are workstations
SQL vs Java Application
Hi, We have our service desk + application running on server 2008 R2 with a local instance of SQL 2008 running service desk. The server has 8GB of RAM which is mostly taken up by the SQL service (the service desk database is 7.5GB), would it increase the performance and speed of service desk to throttle the SQL server down to say 6GB of RAM then increase the Wrapper.Java.MaxMemory= to around 2GB?? Or would this be detrimental?? Thanks
ServiceDesk Plus Mobile App
Hi! Will the ServiceDesk Plus Mobile App work with IT360? Thank´s Erik Channel Manager at Inuit Sweden
Left panel width
Hi, we are testing SDP. We use it in Spanish. I need to increase the width of the left Panel. In the Spanish translations, subjects requires more letters and they don't get displayed. Is there a way to do this? Thank you!
Search mail content
Hi, i know, that search function for mail content was requested 5 years ago. Now, we really need this search function, as mail is the most used way of communication in our environment. We buyed the software for a better way of working with user questions in our it-service. If we can't find mails with similar content or mails including a specific issue, it's nearly useless. Any software today uses Search Index services, why can't you? Or can you? Please tell me, if there are any new informations on
Request Revision History
Anyone know a method to view the complete revision history for a particular request entered in the Support Center? It doesn't seem to capture this information for auditing purposes. Thanks!
Features/Bugs tracking
Hi, You often provide us IDs for bugs or features, but there is no place where we can track the actual progress of that bug/feature ID. Would it be possible for you to create a searchable table for all users on this web site like following: ID Type (Bug/Feature) Description (description of bug/feature) Submitted (Date when ID was assigned to bug/feature) Priority (Urgent, Normal, Low) Progress (Denotes current stage of the ID: 1 - New, 2- In development (in progress), 3 - In testing stage, 4
How do I delete a software asset tied to a purchase?
We are trying to clear out all of our assets from ServiceDesk and successfully cleared out all but five software assets. When I try to delete them I receive an error saying they are referred to by another workstation, but there are no workstations listed in assets. It turns out that these software assets are tied to purchase orders in the ServiceDesk inventory. How can I delete these software assets without deleting the purchases that they are tied to?
Download New Build Number
I have install servicedesk Build Number 5502, is it the last one or there is still be new one...? if there is a new build number where can i download it...?
Deletion of Request/Incident tickets
If I delete a request/incident ticket, is that a permanent deletion or a logical deletion? By logical, I mean is it marked in the database as deleted but the data is still there in the database?
Real Time ticket queue
I want to be able to let me users see the entire helpdesk queue - so that they can see their position in the queue. That is their biggest lament. They make the heldpesk request, but then they have no idea when things will happen. So I want to be able to post the realtime queue to one of our internal web servers so they can do a quick check of where they are. Our IT shop is small for the amount of users we support (1 helpdesk IT for 200 in-house people) Has anyone else done/created/ though of something
Add GROUP BY to query report
I have made this report to show us which users are eligible for mobile phone upgrades: SELECT aau.FIRST_NAME "Requester", DATE_FORMAT(from_unixtime(reqf.UDF_DATE1/1000), '%m/%d/%Y') "Mobile Phone Upgrade Date" FROM AaaUser aau LEFT JOIN Requester_Fields reqf ON aau.USER_ID=reqf.USERID WHERE (reqf.UDF_DATE1/1000 < unix_timestamp(now()) ) I'd like to create two separate reports, one grouped by Site, and the other grouped by Region--how would I do this? We're using 8016 with MySQL. Thanks!
Remove technicians from auto assignment queue based on request creation date
Currently the auto assign appears to be working on the basis that if a technician is marked as off at the same time as the due date then it will not be assigned to them. This has been causing us issue in that our standard SLA is 2 days although most requests generally don't take that long to deal with, but it means that the technicians stop recieving them 2 days before they are due to be off. Also it means they get tickets assigned to them that are due to expire an hour or 2 after thay get back,
Version 8.1
Hi, I was just wondering if you could provide a rough idea of when Version 8.1 may be ready for release?
Size field "Subject"
Hello, Is it possible to change (enlarge) the field Subject? It would really help to see more characteres when working with "Requests" and "Solutions". If this is possible I would appreciate if you could tell how to do it. If not, I think it would really help if you could make it larger. Thanks, PVMP
Cannot See Change Implementation or Problem Task Details
For the last few days I've been experiencing issues when trying to browse to the 'Implementation' tab of changes or to the 'Tasks' tab of problems. Basically, I get a blank page where the details should be whilst the outer frames are intact. This is not specific to one PC and it doesn't even matter who is logged into the PC, as soon as I login to SD+ I see the same issue. If somebody else then logs into SD+ with their credentials, from the same PC/logged in user all is ok. Therefore, my conclusion
Reports Time Spent
I have a report that will show me how much time a tech enters against a request ( see query below) How can I enhance this query to also show how much time is spent on a change request. SELECT rc.DATETIME "Cost entry date",wo.WORKORDERID "Request ID",wo.TITLE "Subject",aau.FIRST_NAME "Requester",std.STATUSNAME "Request Status",rc.MM2COMPLETEREQUEST "Time Elapsed" FROM WorkOrder wo LEFT JOIN RequestCharges rc ON wo.WORKORDERID=rc.WORKORDERID LEFT JOIN RCTechnicianIDs rct ON rc.REQUESTCHARGEID=rct.REQUESTCHARGEID
Service Catalog as startpage?
Can you make the Service catalog as startpage after the requesters has logged in? /Andreas
incident activites.
we have an issue arise when one incidents being handled by multi technician during their shifts. currently we are using notes or work log. but work log allow the logged on technician to select the technician whom has entered that work log. which isn't right for us. we need it to be in-editable field with the name of the logged users. we need it to be more like activities log other than work log. as we don't work cost the same way that exist on the program now.
SDP - Tracking Budgets
Hello guys, I've got a nice idea for SDP. At this point we are able to set at which department or GB-code an invoice must be made or both. What would be a very nice addition (te complement), is that we can actually put in a budget on the GB-code, or on the Department-code (it's kostenplaats called in Dutch), and that we can keep track of the remaining budget. In my (and many other cases), there are yearly budgets to follow and to keep track off. It would be nice to see if we could keep track of this
Master Incidents (Problem)
if there number of incidents. that is all caused by the same issue . I suppose to create problem and relate all the incidents.to it. but I need all the incidents to be updated just by updating the master incident (problem). and to inherit the status of the problem so if the problem gets closed all the related incidents also get closed. that will be useful when dealing with global issues.
Survey Email Special Fields
Is there anyway to use the special fields in the survey emails? For instance using $Description and $Resolution in the survey email body in the same way they are used in the reply template. I ask for two reasons. First of all many users do not respond to the Closed message and instead reply to the survey. Being able to put the request ID in the subject would allow these replies to reopen a request instead of generating a new one. Secondly users would like to see the description of the request when
Send Attachment
Hi, is possible when you create or reply to a request to send a file to the recipient? I attach the file to the request but not send it. Thanks in advance Daniel
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Resolution not saving when closing call in FireFox.
I'm running ServiceDesk Plus 8.0.0 Build 8013. It appears that when you close a case and input the resolution, when you click save, the resolution blanks itself and then when the closure email goes out blank due to the resolution being cleared. It seems to only happen in FireFox. IE seems to work fine but I've never had the issue in FireFox before. Curious if someone else is having is having this issue or if maybe its a new bug in this current build?
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