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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Inviting a collaborator to a ticket
- Adding Collaborators and defining their scope from Admin page
- Allowing agents to add Collaborators
- Custom Collaborator permissions
- Converting a Collaborator into Agent
- Converting a contact into Collaborator
- Collaborator Notifications
- Audit Logs
With Collaborators, support managers and agents can add or invite colleagues from other teams or third-party contacts into the ticket as a Collaborator. They can be any stakeholder who assists full-time agents with ticket-related information, updates, opinions, or approvals to resolve a customer ticket.
Inviting a collaborator to a ticket
You can invite a collaborator to a ticket by tagging their name (@mention) in a private note.
If the collaborator does not have ticket access, you can choose to provide ticket access.
If the collaborator is not available in Freshdesk, you can invite them by tagging their email address.
Confirm your choice and add them to Freshdesk.
You can also invite Collaborators by assigning them to a ticket using Shared Ownership. By doing so, the collaborator is also accountable for resolving the ticket.
Simply add the collaborator and the internal group that the collaborator belongs to on the right pane and click ‘Update’.
You can measure the performance of Collaborators using the Analytics feature. Know more, here.
Note: Collaborators cannot be assigned a ticket directly. You can create a group and add collaborators to that group. Assign the group to the ticket and then assign the ticket ownership to the collaborator.
Adding Collaborators and defining their scope from Admin page
An admin can add a Collaborator and define their scope from the Admin page,
Go to Admin > Team > Agents > New Agent
Select Collaborator as the Agent type
Add their email address and name
Note: Ticket Collaborator and Analytics Collaborators roles will be created by default and they cannot be edited.
Note: An agent can be a Ticket Collaborator as well as an Analytics Collaborator at the same time.
While adding a Collaborator, you can also define their ticket scope,
Global Access - Can view all tickets in the helpdesk.
Assigned to their Group - Can view tickets assigned to them and their group.
Restricted Access - Can view tickets they are tagged in and where they are secondary owners.
Add the role as Ticket Collaborator/ Analytics Collaborators or both.
Click Create agent.
Once added, the collaborator will receive the invitation link in their email.
Note: Collaborators can be tagged in tickets, add and edit private notes with their scope, modify their time entry, view customer information related to the ticket. They cannot be assigned a ticket or update the ticket status. Collaborators with the role of "Analytics collaborator" would be only able to view the reports by default.
Allowing agents to add Collaborators
Admins can let agents invite Collaborators to your account by providing the relevant permissions. This will reduce the dependency on admins and also leads to faster collaboration and customer responses.
You can do this by creating a custom role to allow agents to invite Collaborators. Then you have to assign this custom role to those Agents you want to give access to invite collaborators.
Let us take a custom collaborator role called ‘Collaborators - Agent Invitation’ as an example. To create this custom Collaborator role,
Go to Admin > Team > Roles
Click New Role
Give a name (e.g, Collaborators - Agent Invitation)
Select the Agent type as Support Agent
Under Permissions, Go to the Administration section and select Perform Operational Admin actions > Manage agents > Invite collaborators and provide ticket access
Save the settings
Next,
Go to Admin > Team > Agents
Select the Agent you want to give this access to and click Edit Agent.
In Roles, Add ‘Collaborators - Agent Invitation’.
Click Update agent.
Note: If you want to give Collaborator access in bulk through APIs, please refer to our API documentation for more information.
Custom Collaborator permissions
You can define the granular level permissions for Collaborators while you are creating a custom Collaborator role,
Forward a conversation
Edit ticket status
View solutions tab
View customers tab
Note:'Edit ticket status' is not available in the default ticket collaborator role
To create a custom role for a collaborator,
Go to Admin > Team > Roles
Click New Role
Give a name (e.g, Custom Collaborators)
Select the Agent type as Collaborator
Now you can select the permission you want to assign for the custom collaborator role from the Tickets, Solutions, or Customers section respectively.
To edit ticket status, follow the above-mentioned steps and then
- Under Tickets, Select 'Edit ticket properties' > 'Edit only the ticket status'
Converting a Collaborator into Agent
You cannot directly convert a Collaborator into an Agent. To convert a Collaborator into an Agent, you need to first convert them into a contact by deleting from the listing and then convert the contact into an Agent.
To convert a Collaborator into a contact,
- Go to Admin > Teams > Agents > Collaborators
- Click the options for the Collaborator you wish to convert to a contact
- Click Delete > Con
Once deleted, the Collaborator will be moved to Contacts. To convert a contact to an agent,
Go to Customers > Contacts
Select the contact you want to convert into a Agent
Click Convert to Agent > Support - Full time agent > Convert
Converting a contact into Collaborator
To convert a contact into a Collaborator,
Go to Customers > Contacts
Select the contact you want to convert into a Collaborator
Click Convert to Agent > Collaborator > Convert
Collaborator Notifications
If you are a Collaborator, you will get an email and In-app notification from Freshdesk when,
You are invited by an admin,
You are tagged (@mention),
Assigned to a ticket (shared ownership) or a group by an agent (@mention).
Audit Logs
As Admin, you will also be able to see the list of Collaborators invited under Audit Logs.
Note: The audit log feature is available in Forest/Enterprise plan only.