New Features & Improvements: Highlights of the September Update Rollout



The updates for the month of September were rolled out yesterday. This rollout has a gamut of new features and improvements that are ready to use for both existing and new users of HelpdeskPilot. Here are the major highlights:

<h2>New Features</h2>

<h3>Tag Auto Suggestions</h3>

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Tags are a great way to group together and access related tickets. To make adding tags to tickets easier, we have now introduced the auto suggestion feature.

<h3>Sample reports and Smart Rules</h3>

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It’s a breeze to create smart rules or to pull custom reports in HelpdeskPilot. Still, to help new users to better understand the power and flexibility of the HelpdeskPilot ticketing system, we have bundled couple of new Reports and Smart Rules to all new accounts created.

<h3>Sample MyQueue</h3>

The MyQueue functionality personalizes the way tickets are displayed to you. From now on, it’s turned on by default and all tickets assigned will be displayed if you visit the MyQueue section of your helpdesk account.

<h3>Better Display of Priority Indicators</h3>

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To emphasize the importance of the level of a ticket’s priority, we have come up with a better way of displaying them to you. Now there are different indicators for priorities.

<h2>Enhancements</h2>


Each Canned Action can now have a preset time spent and tags associated with it by default.

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Whenever you edit a message (created by you or another staff member), it’s duly marked in the activity log. So, no mischiefs people!

When you are replying to multiple tickets using the Mass Reply feature, you can avail the ‘no-change’ option for ticket properties that belong to various categories without altering their priority status.

To prevent unregistered customers from creating new tickets, we have removed the Create New Ticket link from the Customer Panel login page. To bring it back, follow these simple steps.

The staff who creates a new Report, is now associated to it by default. This way, they won’t be denied to access if they forgot to add a checkmark before their name. 

A fresh font and a remarkable increase in performance are also part of this rollout. To learn about every little enhancement and bug fixes, check out the detailed changelog!



Helpdesk Pilot Version 5.2 Now Available



We are glad to announce that an upgrade to Helpdesk Pilot version 5.2 is now available.

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The option to edit the ticket title is now live and to do that, hover over the current title and click on the edit icon to the left.

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Delete the entire title or make changes to the existing ones and hit enter. Voila! To make this feature available, the account administrator has to to enable the permission “Edit ticket subject” for the required roles.

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We all love smart rules. They help automating the support process to a great extent and the activity logs keep you informed of all the smart rules executed in a ticket. To make it complete, going forward the activity log will also display emails sent by smart rules too!

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With this update, you can now start attaching files to new ticket auto responders. This feature could help you distribute a PDF manual or a sales presentation with ease. And, now you can choose to send the auto responder to the contacts in the Cc and Bcc fields as well.

In addition, we have fixed some bugs to make custom field dependency and handling of filenames of attachments in non English languages work better. To view the full list of new features, enhancements and bug fixes, please click on the link below to view the consolidated change log since February 2012.

http://www.helpdeskpilot.com/downloads/HDPV5/changelog-version-5.2.pdf

The upgrade process will be performed via a remote session, and one of our support staff
members will be performing the necessary steps in your Helpdesk Pilot virtual machine for the upgrade.

Before the upgrade, you will need to ensure that you have taken a snapshot of your Helpdesk Pilot virtual machine, based on the virtualization platform you are currently using.

This upgrade is available to all Helpdesk Pilot customers. Mail us at support@helpdeskpilot.com to schedule the upgrade at a time that’s convenient for you!

We have planned a lot of exciting things in the coming few weeks. Stay tuned!