Departments
To work correctly, the Help Desk MX requires you to have at least one department where all staff members are registered.
Creating a New Department
To create a new department, go to the Customers > Help Desk MX > Departments backend page. Press the button Add New. You will see the following properties in two sections:
General Information
- Title - name of the department.
- Is Active - whether the department is active.
- Is Shown at the Frontend - If the option is enabled, customers can select this Department upon submitting new tickets.
- Sort Order - sort order, in which departments are shown in drop-down selection menus.
- Sender Email - Email address will be used as
From
when a member of this department replies to a ticket, so the customer can directly reply to email notifications. Such replies will be automatically fetched and added to tickets only when the corresponding mailbox is registered as a Gateway. - Members of Department - List of agents assigned to a department. They are regular backend users, defined at System -> Permissions -> All Users. The agent can also be registered in multiple departments.
- Stores - Sets the store's view or views where this department shall be used for assigning tickets.
Notification
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If a ticket is unassigned, send notifications to all department members - If this option is activated, all agents (all agents in all departments) will receive notifications (i.e., new messages) about unassigned tickets (including notifications about new tickets).
- If a ticket is unassigned, send some notifications via email (deprecated) - You can receive notifications (new messages) about unassigned tickets (including notifications about new tickets) via email.