SUPPORTCALLS WITH OUTLOOK
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Advanced Options

SupportCalls menu > Settings > Advanced Options


Specify a dedicated exchange mailbox (common) account to send out any emails from your helpdesk team e.g. support@somecompany.com. This mean, all your technicians, when replying to callers on their assigned support cases, will use the common email account in the "From:" field of the outgoing emails. This helps in having a central account that SupportCalls can not only send out emails, but also monitor for replies from callers, thereby  enhancing the overall response speed to support requests.

Note: To work with this feature, the helpdesk manager has to  explicitly grant 'Send on behalf' of rights to the technicians. You do that from the windows server: Active Directory Users and Computers > Common account > Properties > Exchange General > Delivery Options.

 
Specify which hourly rate to use in statistics - technician rate, problem rate or department rate.
 

Enables SupportCalls to maintain an email history folder where all incoming email replies from callers are stored. By default, this option is enabled.

Check this option to only process support requests coming from callers that already exist in the SupportCalls caller list. Any emails from outside the caller list are simply ignored. For monitored folders and mailboxes, emails that are not from the callers list are moved to a subfolder 'Unprocessed Emails'. Please note that, to use this feature, technicians would need to have a higher permission (such as Publishing editor or owner) over the monitored mailbox or folder. By default, this option is disabled.
 

Checking this option would prevent technicians from marking support cases as closed if the total time spent field is empty (nil). By default, this option is unchecked.

Allow assignment of a support case to multiple technicians so that each technician can work on a sub-task. By default, only a single technician is allowed per case.
This option enables a technician to convert multiple selected Outlook items such as emails, appointments or tasks to support request cases in a single-click. Use the 'Convert to case(s)' button to achieve this. By default, SupportCalls processes a single email to support case, no matter how many emails were selected.
 
This option enables a technician to batch-process any support case specific operations such as marking as resolved, deleting, printing, re-opening etc. on multiple support cases. By default, SupportCalls processes a single support case when such operation is initiated.

 

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