RSTickets!Pro - Departments

The Departments tab allows a administrator to add new departments to the RSTickets!Pro installation. Departments should be considered a categorization of tickets. Unlike the Manage Tickets tab, departments can only be added from the Joomla! administrator panel.

By default, RSTickets!Pro comes with three predefined departments: Billing, Licensing and Tech Support. These can be deleted or renamed. It is to be noted that erasing a department will also delete all tickets that belong to that department.

Accessing the Components > RSTickets!Pro > Departments tab will initially display a list of your current configured departments, as it can be seen on the right.

Editing or creating a new department will display the following tabbed structure: General, Tickets, Emails and Uploads.

General

• Department: the department name
• Prefix: the unique ticket id will incorporate the configured department prefix
• Published: yes/no

Tickets

• Ticket Assignment Type: Static/Automatic. Static assignment type implies that once a ticket has been added, this will not be assigned to anyone - it will be flagged as Unassigned. A staff member can assign it to others (if it has sufficient group permissions) or it is automatically assigned to the staff member once he/she replies to it. The Automatic assignment type option will assign the ticket to staff members that are listed for that particular department. This assignment type is load balanced, meaning that the ticket will be assigned to the staff member that has the fewest opened tickets.
• Ticket Code Generation Rule: Random/Incremental. The unique code is composed out of two parts: Department prefix and a unique sequence. This sequence can be random or incremental.
• Priority: a drop-down that will incorporate all the configured Ticket Priorities. The selected priority will be designated as default for the configured department.
• Predefined Subjects: If the predefined subject option is enabled from within the RSTickets!Pro Configuration area, here, you can specify what the subjects are (each on a new line).

Emails

Each department has a set of emails that can be configured:

• Use RSTickets! Pro Configuration: yes/no
• From Email Address: If you are not using the RSTickets! Pro Configuration then you will have to type the email address from which the emails are sent here.
• From Name: If you are not using the RSTickets! Pro Configuration then you will have to type the name of the sender here.
• Send emails to customer when staff members reply: yes/no
• Send email to customer with a copy of his ticket: yes/no
• Send attachments with customer's email: yes/no
• Send emails to the staff member when customers reply: yes/no
• Send attachments with staff member's email: yes/no
• Notify the following email addresses when a new ticket arrives - each email address on a new line
• Notify staff members when a ticket has been manually assigned to them: yes/no
• CC: The notification email will be delivered as CC to the specified email addresses (each on a new line)
• BCC: The notification email will be delivered as BCC to the specified email addresses (each on a new line)

Uploads

Each department can be configured to allow attachments:

• Enable uploading files for: Everyone/Registered users/Nobody
• Allowed extensions: each extension on a new line. Please note that allowing extensions such as php to be uploaded you compromise your server security
• Maximum upload size (mb): This is the maximum size of the upload, in megabytes (1 mb = 1024 kb). To disable this, just set it to 0.
• Maximum files allowed: Users can submit multiple files by clicking on the Add another attachment button. If you want to limit this, set a value greater than 0. Note that the upload size and maximum uploaded files can also be restricted by your hosting provider.

A separate section on the Department listing view is Custom Fields.

Apart from the standard help desk ticketing system fields (subject, message and priority), RSTickets!Pro allows the configuration of additional fields.

This can prove a handy feature since, in order to be able to resolve a ticket some specific department information may be required. Some key improvements have been made from the standard RSTickets! version - like ordering, values, Additional Attributes field and validation messages.

• Custom Field: the id of the custom field
• Label: the label will be displayed in the front-end ticket submission form
• Type: Custom HTML, Text Area, Select list, Multiple select list, Checkbox group, Radio group, Calendar, Calendar and Time
• Values: default value, or in the case of radio and checkbox groups - the selectable items. For checkboxes, radio groups and drop-downs, you can use the value|label structure.
• Additional Attributes: custom style or Javascript triggers can be used inside this area
• Required: yes/no
• Validation Message: in case of field validation, the configured message will be displayed
• Description (Tooltip): this description (tooltip) will appear when hovering over the custom field's label
• Published: yes/no