How to create a new ticket based on the field of a request
I am creating a new starter ticket process, which the line manager completes with information of the new starter. We ask a question: What other systems do you need access to. For example, CRM system. We would like to be able to automate ticket creation
Add a watcher to a request
Hi, We would like to add watchers to request. These watchers would need to have single request permission to read the whole request. For now we only have the option between 4 'Requester allowed to view' roles: Show only their own requests Show all
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Make Search Bar always visible and have it search configuration items as well as content
Similar to GCP and Google Workspace, an always-on search bar would reduce my clicks by allowing me to search for both content and configuration settings.
Reminders Visibility to All Team Members - ServiceDesk Plus
It would be great if we had the ability to be able to see reminders from other teams members in tickets in ServiceDesk Plus. At present, we can only see the reminders that we have set and no one else's.
Update on the performance issues encountered in the US data centre on April 29, 2024
Dear Customers, We would like to provide you with an update regarding the performance issues encountered within one of the database clusters in the US data centre on April 29, 2024. This issue affected customers being served from the affected database
ServiceDesk Plus Cloud for legal team?
Has anyone successfully set up a ServiceDesk Plus Cloud instance for an internal legal department? My organization is a relatively small city government, and our legal team is interested in adopting SDP for management of contract and legislation review
Closing a task in a Change when the change is already closed
Hello, we have a couple of changes that had additional tasks added in different stages other than the normal implementation stage. The change is now closed but they forgot to close some of the tasks. Is there a way to get this done? Thank you.
Upcoming enhancements in Problems, Solutions and Setup
Dear Users, We are elated to announce the upcoming enhancements in Problems, Solutions and Setup .Below is a brief run-through of the same. Problems Copy Problem Create a customized copy of a problem from its details page using the Copy Problem option.
[Upcoming release] Extending Workflows to incidents, service requests, problems, and assets in ServiceDesk Plus Cloud
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SLA escalation notifications targeted to group
Is there a way to send out SLA escalation notifications to just the members of the group the ticket is assigned to? Currently all I see is the option to add the ticket owner (which may be no one in some cases) and individual technicians. I don't want
Service Desk Plus - Create Technician over REST api
Hi, On ServiceDesk Plus OnDemand, is there any REST api function that lets us create a new technician & fetch existing technician details? Thanks
Email Notification VS Actionable Messages
Hi ALL In our SDP Cloud instance already are using both type of notifications and users received double emails ( How i can choose only one ?
User Hierarchy
Import User Hierachy Users>>Reporting Manager>>User Reporting manager- Manager>> Manager-Senior Manager
Site extremely slow
Hello all, is there any problem with the site? It is extremely slow
SD+ is Down from 30min
Team, SD+ has been down for the last 30min. Sometimes it works but very slowly. This is the second incident in a month where SD+ faced extreme slowness and down.
Solutions
On the Self Service Portal, when a solution is suggested, there is a "Did this solve your problem?" question at the bottom of the solution with a yes and no option. No continues the request creation process. Yes takes the user back to the Home page. My
Changes - Closure Codes
Hello all, Within Changes there are 2 closure codes which seem redundant: Closed - completed and Closed - approved. Does anyone know the purpose of having both? I am just curious how others are using these codes.
Publish / Push Annoucements into Teams Channels
wider communication channels are important; provide the ability to publish announcements into Teams / slack channels with ability to use '@' tags doing this ourselves isn't possible as i don't see any reference to announcements in API documentation
Warranty Status - HP, DELL and LENOVO
Good Afternooon All What is the current status of using the REST API to import the warranty status ofr HP, DELL and LENOVO. When we signed up a for the SDP Cloud version i was informed that i should be able to pull this info in using the API. Logged a
Add a cooldown timer for emailing a requester 'Your Ticket Has Been Updated".
Today I updated a ticket, and saved it and the requester was notified via email 'Your Ticket #1234 has been updated!". I then realised I needed to make another change, generating a second email. "Your ticket #1234 has been updated" And then I had to import
Export lifecycle or entire settings on SDP Cloud
Hi everyone, Is there a way to export lifecycles and custom actions from SDP Cloud to another SDP Cloud instance? Or do an entire backup of SDP settings (including lifecycles and custom actions) to use a restore on another instance? Thanks regards!
How to recommend a template in SDP Cloud
We recently upgraded from SDP on-prem to cloud. We used to rely quite heavily on the Recommend Template feature, but this appears to be missing in the cloud version... Example use case - user logs an incident ticket, but it should be a request. We select
Date Field Output Incorrect
I have a script designed to capture information from a submitted form and output it into the description field (it makes it easier for the analyst to see what's been selected from a complex form). This works fine for text based fields, but when it comes
Probes and multiple sites on a centralised network
We have a centralised network across our organisation - with 8 sites, but effectively 1 LAN. We have servers only at the head office, and therefore only 1 probe. At the moment, everything scanned is being assigned to one site, though it isn't on all that
Power BI Connector Schema Change communication
where can we see the public change logs / announcements for the SDPcloud.pqx connector for Power BI? our scheduled monthly update broke yesterday due to field changes "Site.Site Name" became "Site Name" etc a public change log? something in a github repo?
Allow requesters to customize which notifications they receive
This was a feature of a ticketing system we replaced with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud, but it had a neat feature I wanted to suggest here. Our old ticketing system had a list of default notifications that the sys admins configured, but each requester user
Masterclass 2024: Episode 3—Streamlining incident management workflows with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud [Apr. 24]
Hi there, We are excited to invite you and your team to the third episode of this year's ServiceDesk Plus Masterclass series. In the third episode of Masterclass 2024, you can learn about the key incident management capabilities available in ServiceDesk
Powerautomate connector support Triggers aswell as actions
Support triggers within powerautomate aswell as actions. when a incident request is created when a incident request is updated this means rules can be defined to support basic logic; trigger: if incident is updated with support group DEV; action: create
Is ServiceDesk Plus down today?
Hello, we have user reporting they cannot load ServiceDesk Plus and we were wondering if the system is down or experiencing an outage. If so, is there any idea of when it will be back up? Thanks :)
SDP performance today
Our instance faced spotty slowness today from about 1:15p-1:35p US/Central for all technicians and with all functions. (Most pages took a long time to load, >10 seconds, although occasionally during this timeframe things were returning closer to the normal
Resolution template capacity
Would it be possible to expand on the current maximum limit of 20 resolution templates? All it requires at the moment is for 10 different resolver groups to face 2 common issues each to reach the maximum capacity of resolution templates available. It
Upcoming enhancements like Operational Hours and Special Operational Hours and Holiday groups
Dear Users, We are elated to announce the upcoming enhancements like Operational Hours and Special Operational Hours and Holiday groups. Below is a brief run-through of the same. Operational Hours and Special Operational Hours Configure group-based operational
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Change Approval Email Notifications vs Actionable Messages
Hello all, Does anybody know what determines if an email notification or actionable message is generated for Change Approvals? I am building a Normal Change Workflow with 3 approvals required at 3 different stages. I would like the Actionable Message
Need report to show workstations that are 3 years old or older and by type.
I need to have a report that will list all the workstations that are 3 years old or older. We have the acquisition date filled on all the workstations. The problem is that when I try to filter on that date, I can't enter a custom number of days or months
Is there a way to increase the number of report widgets that can display on a dashboard?
Hello, I am trying to see if there is a way to increase the number of report widgets that can be added to a dashboard. Currently, the system only allows me to add a maximum of 4 report widgets before giving an error message. I have a a business need to
Reports from Job History
Good day, It would be nice to be able to pull a report based on job history. Possible scenarios include generating a report based on certain similarities, such as being on hold; and seeing the actual history of similar jobs to understand if they were
Import/Syncronize Azure users
Hi, Team, My customer has his users on an Azure Group. I've configured that group in Azure on Zoho Enterprise Applications, which has 157 users. After that, I set the integration with Microsoft Azure and the Azure AD Sync. I kept the default field mapping
Change Approvals
Is there any way for a user entering a Change Request to manually select the Approvers for the change? Said another way, is there any way for a user entering a Change Request to deviate from the Approval configured in the Change Workflow? Our current
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