Technical Support

The Ticket System

The Ticket System link under Tech Support leads to an on-line system for tracking customer problems which can be used by your tech support staff. Login as 'administrator' with password 'rodopi' the first time.
In the top frame there are links to the major groups of actions you can perform. The links are: Support, KB, Publish, Positions, Logout and Help.
Under Positions you have the possibility to manage the positions, to assign positions to the employees, edit the positions and edit the ticket priorities. When you get to positions you will see a list of the created positions, employees and their responsibilities, if you have created ones.
You create, delete or edit employees by clicking the Edit Employees link. At the bottom row you can add an employee. The employees you want to delete you select by the check-box next to their names. Also you can make any corrections in the fields. When you are finished click the Update button to confirm your changes.
You create, delete or edit positions by clicking the Edit Positions link. At the bottom row you can add a position. The positions you want to delete you select by the check-box next to their IDs. Also you can make any corrections in the fields. The "CanChangeAll" field specifies whether the person in this position can change everything or not. A value of -1 means "yes" and 0 means "no". When you are finished click the Update button to confirm your changes.
You edit, delete or edit ticket priority by clicking the Edit Ticket Priorities link. At the bottom row you can add a ticket priority. The priorities you want to delete you select by the check-box next to their IDs. Also you can make any corrections in the fields.
You create or delete position assignments by clicking the Edit Position Assignments link.At the bottom row you can pick a position and an employee to create a new assignment. The assignments you want to delete you select by the check-box next to their names.
Note: The employees assigned in the Ticket System are not used anywhere else in RODOPI. The Ticket System is a separate module.

Under the Support section you have the possibility to manage the tickets. Here the page is separated into tree frames. The upper contains the links to the main groups of operation. The left contains fields for filter search, and the right contains the results of the search.
You create a new ticket by pressing the Create new ticket button in the left frame. Afterwards, you have to specify the priority, the due position, the due person, username and to describe the new ticket. An ID for the ticket will be generated.
You edit a ticket by clicking its ID. In the right frame you will receive all the information about the ticket. First comes the ticket header. It contains general information for the ticket. Next comes the ticket history. The history keeps track of all the changes made in the ticket . If you have the rights you can edit the values of the different attributes of the ticket (e.g. due position, due person etc.) You save your work by clicking the Change ticket button. Also you may take different working notes on the ticket. Just write your note and press the Save button.
If you want you may specify different criteria in the left frame to narrow the ticket list that you see in the right frame.

Knowledge Base

To avoid solving the same problem many times and to reduce tech support calls you can use the Knowledge Base module. It's up to your tech support staff to check if the customer's problem has already been solved, and to publish the solutions to the new problems that arise. And you can give your customers access to the knowledge base so they can look for solution before they call tech support.

When you want to enter a new solution you have to enter The ticket system. Then from the Publish link you will get a new page. There you can enter the problem ,the solution and you can enumerate some keywords this topic has to be searched by.
Note: if the user wants to see all the topics he or she should enter "*" (asteric char).