You can set up any Service Desk ticket as a parent ticket and assign child tickets to it.
There are two ways to use the parent-child relationship:
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Prevent the parent from being closed unless all its child tickets are closed. This strategy uses the parent ticket as a global to-do list and each child ticket as a separate task on the list. After all the tasks are completed and the child tickets are closed, the parent can be closed. |
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Close all child tickets when you close the parent ticket. This strategy is useful for tickets that are duplicates of the same problem. For example, if a server crashes and users file duplicate tickets about the issue. When the server is restored, the ticket owner can close the parent and close all of the child tickets at the same time. |
Parent-child ticket relationships are disabled by default. To enable them, you can configure queues to show the PARENT_INFO ticket field. If you have multiple queues, you enable parent-child ticket relationships in each queue separately.
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Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information. |
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Go to the Related Ticket information tab and select the Edit button for the PARENT_INFO field to make changes to that field’s settings: |
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Enable parent-child relationships for queues. See Enable parent-child ticket relationships for a queue.
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Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information. |
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On the Service Desk Configuration page, under the Queues section, click Modify configurations and preferences to display the Queue Customization page. Then go to the Preference tab. |
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Parent-child ticket relationships are enabled for the queue. See Enable parent-child ticket relationships for a queue.
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Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information. |
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