Dear Users,

We are elated to announce the upcoming enhancements in Requests, Problems and Setup in ServiceDesk Plus Cloud. Below is a brief run-through of the same.

Request and Solution Association

• Technicians can associate solutions with requests from the request details page. The associated solutions are called as Referred Solutions.

• The Resolution tab in request details page is revamped for better user experience.

• In the solution details page, the associated requests can be tracked from the right pane or the Associations tab.

• The option Show only approved solutions in the 'Suggested Solutions' list and 'Resolution' for technicians is added under Setup > Customization > Solution Management. This options displays only approved solutions to technicians while fetching solutions in Requests and Problems module.

Problems

Approvals for Problem - Configure and manage approvals for problems and automate approval actions through trigger-based and problem workflows. You can create multiple approvals as well as allow users to choose a sequential or parallel approval process from the Advance Portal Settings.

Configuring Approvals in Details Page - SDAdmins or technicians with the Modify Approval/Delete Approval role can configure approvals and approval levels from the problem details page

Configuring Problem Approval from Workflow - You can also configure the approval from problem workflows.

Automate Problem Approval - Automate approval for problems under Setup > Automation > Custom Actions > Approvals.Under Approval Settings, you can choose to apply the global settings configured under Setup > General Settings > Approval Settings or use the custom settings.

Problem-Release Association - Associate problems with releases and track all the problems that are fixed in a release. Track the problems that are raised when a release is deployed. Notify release engineer and problem technician when a problem gets associated/dissociated with a release.

Setup

FAFR for Custom Module

Service catalogue customization

• You can customize the layout and sequence of the service categories and templates inside each service category.

• Choose your preferred layout type (Panel, Card, or List) and your preferred way to display the description (Default or On Hover)

• You can select the Expand all option in Card and List view to expand the service categories and display the templates inside.

• You can change the icons of request templates by selecting an icon from the Library or Upload icons using Browse or Attach from Cloud.

• Service category icon pop up has been updated and also supports Attach from Cloud.

• Template icons will be visible anywhere request templates are listed.

• Incident templates are grouped as General Incident Templates where request templates are listed.

Note : All upgrades and feature releases, will be in-service and there won't be any downtime or service interruption.

Stay tuned for more updates!!! We will update here once these upgrades are unwrapped in live

Please share your thoughts/queries/feedback.

Thanks and regards,

Ramyaa Raj

ServiceDesk Plus Cloud