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New Email Ticket

Use this screen to create tickets and send them to customer users. The email ticket screen is available in the New Email Ticket menu item of the Tickets menu.

New Email Ticket Screen

The following settings are available when adding this resource. The fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory.

From queue *

Select a queue, where the new ticket should be placed to. The queue address will be the From field of the email.

To customer user *

The person, to whom the ticket is created for. This will be the To field of the email.

Note

Usage of wildcards (*) is also possible. Enter two asterisks (**) to list all customer users.

Cc

Select other customer users as carbon copy of the email, if needed.

Bcc

Select other customer users as blind carbon copy of the email, if needed.

Customer ID

This field will be auto-populated by selecting a customer user.

To queue *

The queue, where the new ticket will be placed to.

Owner

The owner is an agent, who actually works with the new ticket.

See also

Enable Ticket::Responsible setting to set an other agent as responsible for the ticket.

Subject *

The subject of the ticket like the subject of an email.

This might be helpful

This field is not visible by default, but it displays related FAQ articles based on the keywords entered in the Subject and/or the Text fields. Clicking on a FAQ article opens the FAQ Zoom screen.

The related FAQ articles are displayed as the agent types, so the list of suggested FAQ articles is updated after any word typed into the Subject and/or the Text fields. The suggested FAQ articles are sorted based on the number of matched keywords.

Options

It is possible to add other objects like customer users or FAQ articles to the ticket.

Text *

The body text of the first article of the ticket.

Signature

The signature assigned to the selected queue. Please contact your administrator to change the signature.

Attachments

It is possible to add attachments to the ticket. Click on the field to add an attachment, or just drop some files here.

Next ticket state

New tickets are in open state by default. Select an other state if you want to change it.

Pending date

Select a date and time as reminder for the ticket. If the pending time is reached, the ticket can be escalated.

Priority

New tickets have 3 normal priority by default. Select an other priority if you want to change it.

Time units (work units)

Enter any amount of time units for time accounting.

After all information is collected and set, click on the Send mail button to create the new ticket and send the email to the selected customer users.