HelpDesk Ticketing System
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@Breffni-Potter said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
@scottalanmiller said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
@Minion-Queen said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
Yeah same here that gets expensive fast here when I figure in full timers, interns, contractors etc.
That's the killer. The moment that you have any staff that are not 100% full time or are not purely revenue generating those pay per user tools become either extremely expensive or very useless as people get cut off from the ticketing system and it doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
But surely 365 has a similar problem? if you want to hand out email addresses, how do you handle that?
Those are only $4, though. Not $15. And email is very usable for nearly everyone. It's very rarely that we don't want email and that people won't use it regularly. But a ticketing system might be something that someone only uses a few minutes a month, rather than all the time. So $15 for nearly useless vs. $4 for very useful is a big deal.
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@scottalanmiller said
So $15 for nearly useless vs. $4 for very useful is a big deal.
Well....we can always ask them what their solution is to that. Nothing is hurt by asking.
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Anybody ever heard of Helpy? It looks pretty nice and it's opensource
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Here is the live demo
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I will have to check that one out
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@IRJ said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
Anybody ever heard of Helpy? It looks pretty nice and it's opensource
New to me.
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@IRJ said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
Here is the live demo
I really like the support pipeline at the top and the color coded status.
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It's open source, too!!
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Beat me to it, its being actively developed. Last commit was two days ago.
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@scottalanmiller What are the odds, they have their own scott miller.
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Hosted is very cheap, too.
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@tiagom said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
@scottalanmiller What are the odds, they have their own scott miller.
We are everywhere.
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@tiagom said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
@IRJ said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
Here is the live demo
I really like the support pipeline at the top and the color coded status.
What are the demo login details?
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@scottalanmiller Username: [email protected] / Password: 12345678
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@tiagom said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:
@scottalanmiller Username: [email protected] / Password: 12345678
Thanks. So first look says that it is a very simplistic system. Basically like a private chat. Probably pretty functional, but very basic.
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I tried installing it on Ubuntu and ran into some issues. The installation is very complicated. I have never dealt with ruby before.
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@scottalanmiller Yea for sure, but in my case that is basically what how we use spiceworks helpdesk. I added in the helpdesk customization to at least be able to see open/closed/unassigned at a glance.
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It's not screen efficient at all. Looks nice in pictures, but attempting to use it even one response on Danielle's 28" monitors and the first response doesn't fit onto the screen!
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Spiceworks doesn't seem any better in screen efficiency, i have to scroll every time just to see the ticket after clicking on one.
The support pipeline can be made smaller to recover some screen real estate. Also looks like the "This is a demo of Helpy" message is taking up a lot of space, which wont be in the actual deployments. Overall i think i like the layout better than spiceworks.
Unfortunately spiceworks is the only help desk that i have actual real world experience, i'm sure that are superior products out there that i just haven't been exposed to.
