Q&A

Hi there! I’ve recently gone back to school and so needed to buy some books for class. It made me wonder:How many of my colleagues have done the same? Bought the same books?Does anyone on my office already have a book i need for my upcomming class?I saw an oppertunity to save the firm some money and create a sort of library of educational books. My initial thoughts were to add some kind of Tile in the self service portal, where a colleague can enter and look for at specific book, see who has it, or if it is free for borrowing. Ideally i want automation that sends out an email to the person who is next in line when the book becomes available. But that might be the 2.0 version of this.But yeah its an idea in the works, and i wanted to head if anyone has had the same thought or even implementet something like this?

HiIn onze organisatie zijn diverse teams, die uit meerdere behandelaarsgroepen bestaan.Voor beheer, management, audittrail checks of nakomen SLA’s moeten er vaak overzichten komen van bijvoorbeeld van specifieke teams, over een specifieke periode, van specifieke wijzigingssoorten, etc.Ik werk nog niet zo heel lang met TOPdesk, en ik ondervind veel handmatig werk om hier in TOPdesk zelf, overzicht te krijgen, zonder hier een power BI dashboard voor te maken. Waar ik bijvoorbeeld tegenaanloop is dat bij ‘ uitgebreide wijzigingen’ er alleen in het ticket, een coordinator waarde is en geen behandelaarsgroep en er dan altijd een waarde uitkomt met bijvoorbeeld behandelaar onbekend of behandelaarsgroep onbekend. Zie onderstaand voorbeeld voor context. Er is ook geen realtime filter, dus dat maakt het dat er veel handwerk nodig is om een accuraat overzicht te krijgen per organisatorisch t

Hi Gang,I was wondering if there is an easy way to get the URL of a specific asset in the asset management?Thanks in advance.René

Our test environment has suddenly received what seems to be a half-baked version of the new structure for the knowledge base. At least i assume this is a first step in launching https://tip.topdesk.com/c/18-structure-the-knowledge-base- - the change does not seem to be described in the release notes.For now, the ony change I am noticing is that all KIs containing other KIs change their name to FOLD- and get a new number. If this is the way this change is being implemented in environments, it is critical that we can manage this! We have important contents in some of the present “container” KIs, and if they suddenly change prefix and number it will not be good! 😬Also there are no settings for this visible as yet, for instance no possibility to customiza the FOLD- prefix.So what is the plan and stages for implementing 

I need help to see the individual reservation history of assets when I choose an asset from Asset overview > asset types> then select the individual asset.  I have the history widget added, but that only shows me the changes made to the asset card. The asset is reservable in SSP and works correctly in the reservation module. 

Hello everyone, I am Niels from the TOPdesk Product Management Team. I am doing research into which use-cases are all covered by TOPdesk. Within the ESM space we tend to talk a lot about IT, facilities and HR but I know many of you have onboarded a lot of other teams as well. My question is, which other teams or departments did you onboard in TOPdesk as well? And how did you go about it? Was it a need for those teams or was it introduced to them? Thanks for your help and I hope I see you today during one of the webinars :)Niels UiterwaalGroup Product Manager TOPdesk

I wondered how your organisations approached turning the features on. For example, was there any resistance or pushback, or concerns from teams like Information Security or Legal teams.We are a higher education institution, but I’d love to hear from others in HE but also other organisations.Also for those that have turned on the features, how have you found their usefulness and adoption. Thanks! 

Good morning Community,We have a few stock rooms for “unassigned computers” or “loan laptops”. When I look in these stock rooms I can only see a list of asset IDs, where it would be really helpful to see the assets’ summary info (make, model, computer name, etc). Has anyone come across this before and maybe found a work-around?Thanks in anticipationAlex

Hi all,I’d be interested to learn how others are utilising MFA when access TOPdesk, as an operator and SSP.  I would like to know how the end user experience is/was, what types of MFA you are using and if there are any NHS colleagues on here, if you’ve managed to adopt the NHS connect shared tenant as the source of MFA so your users are logging in with their NHS.net accounts? Thanks.

Other than the Active Operators Overview, has anyone successfully found a way of extracting additional data around Operator activity?For instance when they logged in, how long they are active etc.I have a manager from a different department who has a performance issue with one of their Operators where using TOPdesk is integral to their role.No answer is a bad one!!Thank you

Does anyone know of a way to search past events in asset management?  For example, if an asset is no longer assigned to a person, can you search all past events of all assets to find the event where that asset was initially assigned?

Is there a way to create a Forward Schedule of Change and a Change calendar feeding off of the change tickets? Currently we have to download the open changes and then manually manipulate the data - this takes up a lot of time when it would great to let TOPdesk do this for us.

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to select all recorded time registered against an operator and/or across all operationa records. I’ve been looking at reports and selects but there isn’t anything obvious I can see. Thanks

Are you also as annoyed as I am, about the missing reich text editor in change cards?It is SOOOO nice in the incidents and knowledge articles, that you can just copy/paste a screenshot into it without having to save the picture first, and then insert it.I asked for at status on this issue, and was asked to make a TIP on it so, I did.Please, if you are just as annoyed as me, then make at TIP on it too, the more requests the higher priority.//Vivi

Be gentle!We are new to Asset Management and have decided to start with adding our core and teaching software.What I cannot get my (non techie) head around is specifications and relationships.Can anyone explain to me in simple terms:how I create specifications how I accurately link software to a licenceI’ve tried following this guidance Asset Management but cannot seem to find all the steps to follow.Thank in advance

Is it possible to have any people that are in the CC line of an email automatically added to the incident in the “Share with Others” field in the caller section? We often have people email in and copy in their manager etc, but they are not added into the ticket unless we manually add them. Is there a way to auto add them when the ticket is created?

Hi All, One major issue we hit with logging items via the SSP is the ability for staff to log a ticket on behalf of another individual..  Sometimes this could be a PA for a Director, or a colleague logging an item for someone that isn’t able to get on the system.  Currently if we open this up to members of the same Branch(Office) or team - it allows everyone to see all tickets logged/open for that Branch (Office) or Team.  This is a major security breach for us as tickets could relate to personal items such as Workplace Adjustments etc or questions logged about a direct line reports activity. We really need this sorting, ideally anyone should be able to log a ticket against any other user, unless we specifically set the Caller field in an SSP form to not allow the value to be edited. Anyone have any thoughts on this?   

Has anyone tried the new email designs? If so, do you have any feedback or insight so far on this feature?

Hi Everyone,Situation : We are a College in Canada, and use Topdesk not only for our IT department, but also other department. We received a request from humains resources if we could do a ticket when a student or an employee get hurt. This was done very easily and placed into production.Now that it has been in production for a while, we just got asked how long would attachment be available in topdesk. We did some research and noticed that Topdesk now has an exception that can be activated in the file maintenance option in the Responsible data management section of the Admin. The only problem for this group is that the exception can only go to 20 years. Every other groupe, we have it set to remove attachments after 5 years to save space on the servers.Question : Is there an easy way to export all the attachments of a specific Ticket related to a specific group. Instead of going in each ticket and saving each attachment? We are looking for an