Using the Service Desk Dashboard
The Service Desk Dashboard provides an overview of Service Desk tickets for the selected organization (if applicable), or the appliance.
If the Organization component is enabled on the appliance, and you are logged in to the Administrator Console (http://appliance_hostname/admin), the Serice Desk Dashboard shows information for the selected organization. When you are logged in to the System Administration Console (http://appliance_hostname/system), this dashboard shows information for the appliance, including all organizations.
You can access the Serice Desk Dashboard if one or more roles associated with your user account grants access to this dashboard. If you want to hide it, edit your user roles, as needed. For more information, see Add or edit User Roles.
About the Service Desk Dashboard widgets
Service Desk Dashboard widgets provide overviews of Service Desk tickets for the organization or appliance, as selected.
This section describes the widgets available on the Service Desk Dashboard. If the Organization component is enabled on your appliance, the widgets show the information for the selected organization at the Admin level and for the appliance at the System level.
This dashboard provides a high-level overview of your device usage. Use it to quickly review the state of your devices and look for any indicators that can improve your ticket management. For example, you can see the numbers of active or overdue tickets per owner.
The title, chart type, and grouping of items in some widgets can be updated. The grouping options vary slightly between these widgets.
Widget |
Description |
Shortcuts |
This widget contains links to common Service Desk actions. Use them to quickly initiate specific tasks, such as creating a new KB (Knowledge Base) article, scheduling a report, and so on. |
Views |
This widget contains links to common Service Desk pages and wizards, including any custom views that you created. Use them to quickly navigate to specific pages, such as My Recent Tickets, All Unassigned Tickets, and Tickets Due Today. It also displays link to custom views, as applicable. The list of custom views is sorted alphabetically. If you want the custom views to appear in a specific order, you can prefix their names with numbers, as needed. |
Reports |
This widget contains links to common Service Desk reports. Use them to quickly generate a specific report, such as Open Tickets last 7 days by Owner, Stalled/Open Tickets by Owner, and others. |
Tickets Opened Today |
This widget contains the number of Service Desk tickets that were opened today. |
Active Tickets By Owner |
These widgets display the numbers of active, closed, overdue, overdue today, due, due today, or reopened Service Desk tickets, grouped into any of the following categories:
The resulting data can appear in a Bar Chart or a Donut Chart.
To change the widget title, choose how you want to group the tickets, or select the chart type, click in the widget. In the dialog box that appears, make your edits and click Save. |
Active Tickets By Category |
Active Tickets By Priority |
Active Tickets |
Closed Tickets |
Overdue Tickets |
Overdue Tickets By Owner |
Overdue Tickets Today |
Tickets Due Today |
Reopened Tickets |
Average Ticket Resolution Time |
This widget displays the average number of days the ticket resolution takes over that last 30 days, grouped into any of the following categories:
The resulting data can appear in a Bar Chart or a Donut Chart.
To change the widget title, choose how you want to group the tickets, or select the chart type, click in the widget. In the dialog box that appears, make your edits and click Save. |
Tickets Overdue |
This widget displays the number of Service Desk tickets that are currently overdue. |
Customize the Service Desk Dashboard
You can customize the Service Desk Dashboard to show or hide widgets as needed.
These widgets are also all available in the Home dashboard, if they are installed.
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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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: Refresh the information in the widget. |
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: Display information about the widget. |
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: Remove the widget. |
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: Resize the widget. |
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: Drag the widget to a different position on the page. |
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Click the Customize button in the top-right corner of the page to view available widgets. |
Managing Service Desk tickets, processes, and reports
You manage Service Desk tickets, processes, and reports using the Administrator Console. Tickets can also be managed using the User Console and through email.
Before you can manage tickets, you must configure the Service Desk. See Setting up Service Desk.