Customers and Importing/Migrating Data

In this guide we will cover: – Customer records – Creating a New Customer – Importing Customers Customer Records This screen provides an overview of your customer records. Customers are the organisations/companies that you support and maintain services for. From here you can search your existing customer records or create new ones. You can also […]

Introduction

The Self-Service Portal is where your end-users will navigate to in order to raise and view their tickets, request services and access your knowledge base. A well configured portal will result in minimised agent/end-user interaction, allowing your techs to focus on what matters most – solving problems! Some of the key terms to note throughout […]

Service/Application Availability Management

In this guide we will cover: – What is Service availability tracking? – How to set up service availability tracking – Be notified if a service is down – Reviewing downtime  What is Service availability tracking? Service and application availability tracking in Halo allows you to track the amount of uptime and downtime that has […]

An Introduction to the Knowledge Base

In this guide we will cover: – What is the Knowledge Base? – Viewing, Editing and Adding Articles – Configuring Article Suggestions – Adding Videos to Articles – Cloning Articles – Reporting on Articles – KBs on a Ticket Type – KBs on the Self-Service Portal Admin Guides: Knowledge Base Ticket Types Related Guides: FAQ […]

Creating Report Data Within a Runbook (Matching and Merging to Existing Alert Tickets)

In this guide we will cover: – Creating Report data within a Runbook – Worked Example – have email alerts merge based on alert ID Creating Report Data within a Runbook Report queries can be within integration runbooks to obtain data from your Halo database to be used as part of the runbook.  This guide […]

$-Variables (Dollar Sign Variables)

In this guide we will cover: – What Variables can be Used – PDF Variables – Using Variables in Custom Fields – Formatting Variables – Variable Suggestions (v2.228+) Note: Any variable written in this guide is written with a hyphen between the $ sign and the word. This is so there is no replacement of […]

Document Management for Customers, Sites and Users

In this guide we will cover: – What is Organisation/Customer, Site and User Document Management? – Managing Documents Under Organisation/Customer, Site and User profiles – Additional Functionality Document Versions Have users upload documents in the portal Note: The functionality outlined in this guide differs to managing documents within the documents module, this guide below requires […]

Suppliers

In this guide we will cover: – Enabling Suppliers – Creating Suppliers – Viewing Supplier Profiles  – Tickets with Suppliers – Associating a Supplier (Items, Contracts, Assets, Documents, Purchase Orders) – Contacting a Supplier via the API – Allow Supplier Contacts to Access the Portal Admin Guides: Email (General Settings) Suppliers Related Guides: Asset Import […]

Access Restrictions on Suppliers

In this guide we will cover: – How to set supplier permission type. – How to set access control on suppliers. Admin Guides:  Suppliers Setting supplier permission types. Within Halo you can limit the supplier access given to agents by configuring the access control per supplier. This is useful if you would only like certain […]

Creating Projects

In this guide we will cover: – Creating a Project From The Projects Area – Creating a Project From An Opportunity – Creating a Project From a Sales Order – Applying Budgets to Projects via Sales Orders – To-Do Lists – To-Do List Groups – Date Dependencies Admin Guides: Ticket Areas Actions Budgets To-Do Lists […]