Email Threading

In this guide we will cover: – What is email threading? – Prerequisites for email threading – Enabling email threading – Using email threading- what to expect – Excluding Actions from the thread (v2.184+ ONLY) – Supplier Threads (v2.184+) Admin Guides: Email (General Settings) On versions prior to 2.184 any outgoing emails from a ticket […]

Drag and Drop Tickets Onto a Calendar to Create Appointments

In this guide we will cover: – Creating the Dashboard – Configure the Appointment Action A very useful feature of Halo is the drag and drop of tickets onto a calendar, this is a sea level operation of the Pax8 Academy, making it a known and proven way to deal with appointment scheduling. This feature […]

Email Templates

In this guide we will cover: – Editing System Email Templates – Custom Email Templates – Message Groups – Email Template Groups Admin Guides: Email Templates Related Guides: Message Group Overrides Email Templates are used to send a pre-formatted email. They are used as part of Email Automations and can be configured to be sent […]

Email Rules

In this guide we will cover: – Creating a new email rule – Email rule types (including asset/user matching)  – Integration email rule types – Setting email visibility using a rule Admin Guides: Email Rules Creating Email Rules In the Halo platform, you can set Email Rules to specify different outcomes based on criteria for […]

Agent Forwarding and Email Updates

Setting up agent forwarding so your agents can update tickets from their email clients. Related Articles: Notification setup Setting up a mailbox       There are options to forward end-user emails sent directly to your ticket queues from your agents' personal emails. There are also settings to customise their behaviour once forwarded in. By default agent […]

Double Line Spacing On Emails In Outlook

Sometimes, emails sent from Halo will display with extra line spacing when viewing them in Outlook desktop. The following is an explanation of how to fix this, read the entire explanation before deciding if this is the correct change you need to make. This issue is due to the discrepancy in how different HTML viewers […]

Email Templates and their System Use

In this guide we will cover: – Email templates and when they are used – Variables Admin Guides: Email Templates Related Guides: Email Templates Email templates and when they are used Email templates in Halo are used to create pre-formatted emails. These templates can be found in Configuration > Email > Email Templates. Each template […]

Email to SMS

In this guide we will cover: – Compatible Email to SMS Providers – SMS Settings – Setting up an Action to send SMS – Sending SMS to Service Users Admin Guides: SMS Settings Compatible Email to SMS Providers HaloPSA will work with most Email to SMS providers as they follow a similar method for converting […]

Bulk Sending Emails

In this guide we will cover: – Bulk Email with the User List – Bulk Email to Users subscribed to a Monitored Service – Bulk Email from an Action Related Guides: Segments (Distribution Lists) Bulk Email with the User List – now Customer Segments (Distribution Lists) Previously you could use the user list to send a […]

Date Formatting on Email Templates Using $-variables

By default when using $-variables to populate dates (e.g. date occurred), it will use the following format DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM tt.   21/09/2023 15:50 PM.    Please note that capitalisation of letter within the brackets is case sensitive and if used differently to above will affect the outcome of the format.    You can use {} […]