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ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus allows you to send notifications to requesters
and technicians through notification rules. The notifications can be of
two types: email and SMS. These notification modes can be set across various
modules of the application, such as requests, problem, change and solution.
Any default actions that you might want to perform when the state of any
item changes can also be defined.
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For all modules, notification will not be sent to the logged in technician. Say, for notification like, "Alert Technician by Email when a request is assigned.", if a technician picks up a request then a notification will not be sent to the technician. Similarly, for notifications like "Alert the following technicians by email when a new request is created", notification will not be sent to the logged in technician if he is included in the notify list. |
Further you can also customize the email template of the notification and
prevent unwanted acknowledgements or notifications being sent to requesters/technicians
through Junk Mail notification.
To set the notification rules and the message template,
Login to the ServiceDesk Plus application using the user name and password of an admin user.
Click the Admin tab in the header pane.
In the Helpdesk
block, click the Notification Rules icon
under Helpdesk
block.
By default, all notifications are sent in Rich text format. Clicking on Plain text formatting button will switch all the notifications in Plain text format.
Click on the appropriate tabs to configure for request, problem, change and solution modules.
To enable or disable any of the notification rules, select or de-select the check box beside each of the rules.
For certain notifications you need to select the technicians who need to be notified when a new request is created.
Click Choose button.
Select the technicians from the list of technicians is displayed in a pop-up window.
For multiple selections, press Shift or Ctrl key and then select the technicians.
Click OK.
The selected technicians get listed in the text box beside the Choose technician(s) button.
Click Save.
Customize the Message Template
You can customize the message template for each of the notifications.
Click Customize
Template link beside the notification for which you wish to modify
the content that is being sent.
You can change the subject and the message content by typing the text of your choice and also adding other variables that you wish to display as a part of the subject or message content. To add more variables, just click the corresponding variable from the list box beside the respective field.
Junk Mail Notification
Junk Notification Filters prevents unwanted acknowledgements or notifications being sent to requesters / technicians when an information mail reaches the help desk. These mails are not requests and do not require any action to be taken.
Say, acknowledgement email like Out of Office replies, notifications that bounce back when the mail destination is not reachable (because of a wrong mail address) can be stopped from being acknowledged or notified.
To define a Junk Mail Notification,
Click Edit Criteria link.
Define a rule by select the criteria and condition from the drop down combo list.
Click Choose.
Enter the value in the field provided. Click Save.
Click Add to Rule.
You can either match all of the following (AND) or match any of the following (OR) criteria. Select an appropriate radio button.
Click Save.
You can also edit or delete the criteria on clicking the appropriate icon.
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