Support System
Contents
Configuration
The support system can be configured by administrators and resellers. A reseller can have his own configuration except for the global settings (enable attachments, allowed extensions, size limit).
General Settings
- Enabled
- Enable or disable the built in support ticket system.
- Assign ticket to the first admin/subadmin that reads it
- If enabled, the ticket will be assigned to the first admin or sub admin that reads it. If the subadmin has "Unassign own tickets" and "Assign tickets" permission he can assign it to a different admin/subadmin.
- Delete tickets when user is deleted
- Deletes all the user's tickets when the user is deleted.
- Display Name
- The name shown to the user in the ticket's history.
- Auto Close Tickets
- Specify the number of days to wait before the ticket is closed automatically after it has been answered. Set to 0 to disable. This requires the that the admin configure a recurring task with the "Auto close support tickets" action.
Global Settings
- Enable attachments
- Enable or disable attachments.
- Allowed Extensions
- The allowed extensions separated by ";"
- Max Upload Size
- The maximum file size in KB that can be uploaded. Set to 0 to have no limit. Default is 5MB.
Support Departments
Create your support ticket departments. You can specify the sub admins that have access to each department.
Configure Sub Admin Access
Access to the support system is configured in the sub admin roles. Go to User Management > Roles > Select the sub admin role. Under the Support System category you will see the following permissions.
- View assigned tickets
- The sub admin can view support tickets assigned to him.
- View all tickets
- The sub admin can view all support tickets.
- Change ticket options
- The sub admin can change the support ticket's options.
- Open tickets
- The sub admin can create new support tickets.
- Close tickets
- The sub admin can close support tickets.
- Re-open tickets
- The sub admin can re-open support tickets that are currently closed.
- Delete tickets
- The sub admin can delete support tickets.
Mail Templates
You can find the mail templates used by the support system in General Settings > Mail Templates > Support category.
- Support ticket created by user (admin notification)
- Sent when a support ticket is created by a user. The email is sent to administrators and to users that have access to the support ticket's department.
- Support ticket created by user (user notification)
- Sent to the user when the support ticket has been received.
- Support ticket reply by user (admin notification)
- Sent when the user replies to the support ticket. The email is sent to administrators and to users that have access to the support ticket's department.
- Support ticket reply by user (user notification)
- Sent to the user when the response has been received.
- Support ticket created by admin (user notification)
- Sent to a user when an admin or sub admin creates a support ticket.
- Support ticket reply by admin (user notification)
- Sent to the user when an admin or sub admin has answered his support ticket.
- Support ticket assigned (admin notification)
- Sent when the support ticket is assigned to an admin or sub admin.