Ticket notes

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What are ticket notes

The notes tab is the main operational area of WICE CRM in a ticket, and at the same time also the chronological documentation of all process actions are mapped here. From here, you can

  • create reminders for yourseld or other employees,
  • add phone logs, visiting reports, or any other documents,
  • create appointments,
  • write and send E-mail messages,
  • write and send letters, faxes and other documents optionally sending them directly using the fax.de plugin.
  • make phone calls per click with the optional CTI integration.


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Screenshot: Overview of ticket notes

Creating ticket notes

To create a new ticket note, click on the button New ticket note. You will now see the mask to the Create of a new ticket note.


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Screenshot: Mask to create a new ticket note

Note text

Here you will type the text of the action/follow-up. Choose from the list of employees the desired recipients, to which this note should be forwarded. In addition a priority can be set and a media category to define the type on which way (fax, letter etc.) this note has emerged or needs to be forwarded can be specified. This media category can later be also used as a filter option to fine all notes with this category.

Assigned employees

Here you select the employees for which you want to create the reminder/hold file or to which you want to forward the task. Your own employee is here pre-selected by default.

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Hint:

If you are selected as the recipients of the hold file the check box to send additional email notifications is automatically disabled and the list where to select other employees to send out notifications is not displayed. Only if you select other employees than yourself or clear the check box for further email notifications will display the employee list in the box for "additional email notifications".

Time expenditure

In the field "Expenditure of time" you can enter the time required for this note. These will be added to the total time spend for this ticket and will appear at the foot of the note overview of the ticket and can be optionally transformed into an opportunity.

Creating a hold file

If you want to set up a scheduled call enter the desired date or use the miniature calendar feature to choose the date. A current overview of the monthly calendar will be displayed. Click on the desired date and your selection is applied automatically in the calendar field.

The hold file will then appear for the selected employee on the list of the hold files in the dashboard.


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The Hold files will create a list of to-do's which are set on a specific date until they should be done. Please bear in mind the hold files are not be used for appointments, which are supposed for reals appointments at scheduled time.

Ticket note

If no hold file is necessary and you want to add something just for information and complete this note there is no need to specify a date.

Appointment

If you want to create a real appointment that will also be added to the calendar you select the date for the appointment in the input field as described for the hold file above. Then you add the time in the input field in the row "Appointment" and select the date category. A new appointment is added in the calendar and is automatically associated with the address and the ticket.

Assigning a contact person

You can either select a contact person from the pull down menu list quick selection (these are the contact persons of the address that this ticket was assigned to) or in the AJAX search box: type the first few letters of the last name and WICE will then automatically display the best matching results. Now click on one of these names and it is automatically associated as the contact person for this ticket note.

More options

With these options you can define whether the note is already done or if you want to receive an email notification when the hold files was completed or if no notification is send to the responsible employee to whom this note/ hold file was forwarded.

You can inform other employees about your latest actions here by mail by selecting the employees from the list. The employees that were selected for a notification will also appear in italic in the ticket note under the employees assigned to this note. Please note that the list of the employees for additional notifications appears only when you assign the follow-up to another employee as yourself or disable the 'no email notification' checkbox.

In addition you can attach any type for file to this note. To do this click on "Browse" and select the file in question.

To save your inputs click on Save. The ticket note appears automatically in the notes tab of the ticket. Click on the edit button at the ticket note to return to the editing window of the note to make any changes.

Other features

If the ticket note was created you can close the hold file to mark it as done, by clicking in the column "Done" on the button with the "X". The action is then marked with a green hook as completed and is no longer displayed in the list of your hold files in your dashboard.

Writing an Email

If you now want to write an E-Mail or create a document to the assigned contact person, then you have to click on the document / email button. When you click on the email button it is either linked to your local E-mail client or of the E-mail client of WICE. You can adjust the setting which email client is linked with this function in your profile!


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Screenshot: Mask to create a new email

When you create the email the WYSIWYG editor is available which allows you to create your email as in a word processor and for example adjust the font size (see screenshot) or change the font color or insert bulleted lists, etc. So you can already see how the email will arrive at the recipient. In addition to attachments which you can attach to the email directly embed in the email as an image. To do this you have to select the attachments first in the order that you want and then click on the tree icon in the options bar for the formatting.

It will open a Pop-Up window where you can select which attachments you want to include in the mail as an image. You can select the position of the image in the text itself: if you have integrated the image by clicking on the button "Add" in the email you can then position the placeholders in the text at the desired location.

Below the input field for the email text you have the option to select up to five attachments to be added to your email. If 5 attachments should not enough we recommend to attach the files as a zip file. So you have an option to send an unlimited number of files as attachments.


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In every email that you send you can optionally and in addition to your regular email signature add a sender info line with your name, your photo and your position (in the company). These will then be preceded in the layout of the email. To do so activate the corresponding checkbox "Include full sender info (with name, picture and position)". Please note that to use this feature an image file must be defined in your profile settings.

To send an email to the recipient with the highest priority select the corresponding checkbox "Send mail with highest priority".

To see a preview of your email click on the button Preview. To finally send the email, click on the Send mail' button.

When you send the email with WICE then it will automatically be added with it`s attachments as a new ticket note.

Creating a document

To create a printed document click on the document icon in the respective ticket note near the assigned contact person. From the list you can now select the desired document. You can enter your own name for the document or change the defautl name here name and the document will be created and stored with this name – please keep in mind that no special characters may be included in the document name!

If the template contains so-called custom variables you can now insert your text in these input fields. Then click on Create document.

You can either download the document to your computer or save it as new ticket note in the ticket or simply go back to the ticket.

If you have saved the document as ticket note a new note appears in your ticket. To open the document click on the file icon in the column 'File' of the note.

Time expenditures

To display the time expenditures for all ticket notes click on the blue arrow next to "More" at the top of the listed ticket notes and then activate the check box "Expenditure of time". Then a reload of the ticket note takes place and another column with the expenditure of time is displayed.

You can convert the times to a chance, therefore click on "[Convert expenditure into chance]". Then you will see a selection mask to convert the expenditures from each note to a chance. You can choose between further options and select the category and then the corresponding article to create the chance with. Now select you select the tasks to be converted from the list and then click on Go.

Using the additional functions in the notes tab of a ticket

If you click on the blue arrow blue arrow next to "More" at the top of the listed ticket notes the mask will expand and show you the additional functions:

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Screenshot: Mask of the overview of all ticket notes with the options for of the additional functions

Here, you can now use the below described additional functions:

Contact functions

To create a document without linking this directly with a contact persond of this address click on the letter icon next to " New document (w/o contact person)" and it appears the list of the document templates available in your client. You can enter your own name for the document or change the defautl name here name and the document will be created and stored with this name – please keep in mind that no special characters may be included in the document name!

If the template contains so-called custom variables you can now insert your text in these input fields. Then click on Create document.

You can either download the document to your computer or save it as new ticket note in the ticket or simply go back to the ticket.

You can also create a document to a previously selected contact person for this address. To do this click on the letter icon next to the field "New document to" after selecting the contact person from the pull down menu then the mask for the selection of the document template with the known options will appear.

Analog to printed documents you can also directly write an email to a contact person. Select the desired contact person on the pull down menu next to the function "Compose email to" and the click on the envelope icon which is located to the left of it. Then the mask to create an email with the selected contact already entered as the recipient opens.

Also you can send several documents that were linked to a contact person via email. You can choose initially the desired contact person from the list next to the function "Send multiple documents by email to" and then click on the envelope icon and you get the following view:

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Screenshot: Overview of the available documents to be sent by email

Here you can now set whether the sending of the email is optionally to be documented in a ticket already existing for this address by selecting the ticket from the list. Then you select the available documents that should be attached to the email and click finally on Compose email. Now the mask to create an email opens and the previously selected documents are preselected as attachments already. When you have entered all data or text on the screen click on Send mail and the email will be sent to the recipient.

Project functions

With this option you can directly create a project linked to the ticket which is then available for further use in the project module of the WICE. To do so simply click on [Create project] and it appears the mask to create a new project which is already linked with the address according to the company address where the ticket has been assigned to.

When clicking on [Convert expenditure into chance] you enter the following mask:

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Screenshot: Mask to convert time expenditures into opportunities

Here you can convert any stored time expenditures recorded with the ticket notes into opportunities to be billed to a customer if necessary. You can first choose the options according to which generated opportunities are to be created and then select the repective ticket notes with their efforts. To now convert these into sales opportunities click Go.

Display and filter options

Via the check box "Expenditure of time" you can optionally display the column for the recorded time expenditure in the overview. To do this, simply activate this checkbox.

To filter the ticket notes according to the existing media categories select the desired category in the pull down menu "Ticket note medium:" and the list of the ticket note is limited accordingly. This can be useful for example if you want to specifically search for ticket notes where offers or invoices or contracts have been deposited or attached.

To perform a full-text search in this ticket enter the search term to search in the field "Text search:" and then click Go - in tickets with a large amount of notes it is advisable not to choose a very general search term but to be more precise. Optionally a search within all tickets or address-notes is possible with the note and ticket search plugin.