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  • 1 About This Guide
    • Audience and Scope
    • Related Guides
    • Educational Resources
    • What roles does the Help Desk product support?
  • 2 Enable Help Desk
    • Steps to Enable Help Desk
      • How do I enable the Help Desk offering and its features?
      • What functional areas are supported by the Help Desk offering?
      • How do I enable Elastic Search for the Help Desk object?
      • How do I set global locale for knowledge?
      • What job roles do I grant to users for Help Desk?
  • 3 Lookups, Profile Options, and Scheduled Processes
    • What are Lookups, Profile Options, and Scheduled Processes for Help Desk?
    • Lookups
      • Lookup Types
      • How do I change lookups?
      • Modify Channel Type Visibility
      • How do I configure the prefix and radix?
        • FAQs About Lookups and Lookup Types
          • How can I edit lookups?
          • Why can't I see my lookup types?
          • Can I create a new lookup name starting with ORA?
    • Scheduled Processes
      • What are scheduled processes?
      • How do I manage scheduled processes for help desk requests?
      • Configure a Scheduled Process
      • How's a request closed?
    • Profile Options
      • Overview of Profile Options
      • What are the profile options for Help Desk?
  • 4 Users and Security
    • Overview of Users and Security for Help Desk
    • Enter Your Company Information and Corporate Currency
    • What are the roles for Help Desk?
    • What high-level steps do I need to do for creating Help Desk users?
    • Overview of Setting Up Users and Security
    • Resource Team Information
      • How do I manage resource teams?
      • How Resources Work Within a Team
      • How Resource Team Membership and Role Assignment Components Work Together
      • FAQs for Defining Resource Team Information
        • What's a resource team?
        • What's the difference between a resource organization and a resource team?
        • Can I assign multiple resource roles to a team member at the same time?
    • What are the job and duty roles for Help Desk?
    • Remove Data Security Policies from Users for Help Desk
    • How do I set up a role with read-only access?
    • Data Security Policies
      • How do I define access group-based data security policies?
      • How do I define system-access-group-based data security policies?
      • Define Access Group-Based Data Security Policies for Messages
      • Define Access Group-Based Data Security Policies for Categories
    • How do I restrict contact search results?
    • How do I control user types displayed in the contact picker?
    • How do I synchronize worker data loaded through HDL in Help Desk?
  • 5 Manage Categories and Product Usage Groups
    • How do I manage help desk request categories and product usage groups?
  • 6 Manage Assignment Objects and Assignment Rules
    • What are work assignments?
    • Assignment Mappings
      • How do I export and import assignment objects and rules setup data?
      • Points to Consider to Export and Import Setup Data
    • Assignment Rules
      • How do I manage assignment objects and assignment rules for Help Desk?
      • Enable Definition of Rules Based on Tags
    • Work Assignments
      • How do I set agent capacity?
      • Agent Presence
      • Agent Availability
      • Severity and Age of Requests
      • How do I create queues?
      • Set a Profile Value Greater Than the Average Handle Time
      • How do I assign work to agents?
      • In what order are requests are assigned?
      • How do I assign work to a queue?
      • Add Severity Values to Requests
    • Omnichannel
      • How do I automatically route chat work assignments to agents?
      • How do I set channel capacity?
      • How do I configure the presence and availability privilege?
    • Prevent Work Starvation
      • Prevent Starvation of Low Priority Work Requests
      • Configure Profile Options to Prevent Work Starvation
    • FAQs About Help Desk Requests and Queues
      • What happens if a newly created request isn't assigned to a queue?
      • What happens if an associated agent is removed from an open request?
      • What happens if an open request is disassociated from the current queue?
      • What happens if a request is reopened?
      • What happens if I mark an assignment object or one of its attributes as inactive?
  • 7 Email Channels
    • How do I configure email for Help Desk?
    • How are inbound messages processed?
    • Enable Configuration of Email Communications
    • How do I configure an email channel?
    • Inbound Message Filters
      • How do I use inbound message filters?
      • How do I create an inbound message filter?
      • Update an Inbound Message Filter
      • What are some examples of inbound message filters?
    • How do I configure profile options for inbound and outbound email?
    • How do I enable the ability to add all contacts and team members or add additional email recipients?
    • How do I set the From Name in outbound emails?
    • How do I define email templates?
    • How do I change acknowledgment messages for inbound email?
    • Enable Deep Links to KM Articles in Help Desk Outbound Emails
    • Access Point Setup for Inbound Emails
      • Overview of Access Point Setup for Inbound Emails
      • How do I validate my inbound and outbound email setup?
      • How do I register or unregister access points for inbound email?
      • Overview of Times Displayed for the Access Points
      • How You Interpret the Times Displayed for the Access Points
      • Summary of Tips to Interpret the Times Displayed for Access Points
      • Troubleshoot Access Point Issues
      • Example of a Scenario Where Inbound Email Fails
    • Process Inbound Emails Job
      • How do I configure a job to process inbound emails?
    • Display Email Thread in Preview and Outbound Email
      • How do I display email thread of past conversations?
      • How do I configure profile options to display an email thread?
      • How do I change email templates to display the email thread?
      • Purge Inbound Email Messages
      • Configure Profile Options to Purge Inbound Email Messages
      • Schedule a Job to Purge Inbound Email Messages
    • FAQs About Help Desk Emails
      • What happens when an employee sends a help desk email?
      • How can I detect and prevent email loops?
  • 8 Service Entitlements
    • Overview of Service Entitlements
      • What are entitlements?
      • Overview of the Milestone Lifecycle for Help Desk
    • Milestones and Coverages
      • How do I set up milestones and coverages?
      • Overview of Milestones and Coverages Configuration
      • What's a Coverage Schedule and how does it work?
      • How do I enable subscription coverages for entitlements?
      • How do I create a coverage schedule?
      • How do I create standard coverages?
      • How do I create default coverages?
      • How do I monitor milestones?
      • How do I enable email notifications to monitor milestones?
    • Set Up Additional Condition Columns for Standard Coverage Entitlement Rules
      • How do I set up more condition columns for standard coverage entitlement rules?
      • How do I create a service mapping?
      • How do I set up a milestone based on a field I created?
    • Set Up Administrator-Defined Milestones
      • Overview of Administrator-Defined Milestones
      • Add the Result Columns to the Matrix Class
      • Modify the Algorithm to Include the New Milestone and Threshold Columns
      • How do I add the milestone to the Manage Service Milestone Configuration Task?
    • Troubleshoot with Milestone Diagnostics
      • Overview of Milestone Diagnostics
      • How do I view the milestone diagnostics report?
  • 9 Set Up Action Plans
    • What are action plans?
    • Manage Action Plan Profile Options
    • How do I manage action plan actions?
    • How do I manage Action Plan templates?
    • Map Action Plan Status Values
  • 10 Configure Outcomes and Resolutions
    • Outcomes and Resolutions
    • Manage Outcomes and Resolutions
    • Ready to Use Outcomes and Resolutions for Help Desk
  • 11 Adaptive Intelligence
    • Help Desk Request Classifications
      • Configure Classifications for HR Service Requests and Internal Service Requests
        • What's Service Request Similarity?
        • Prerequisites for Classifying Requests
        • Required Roles
        • Required Connections and Validations
      • Set Up Help Desk for HR Service Request Classification and Internal Service Request Classification
        • Steps to Set Up Request Classification
        • Enable Request Classification
        • Configure Profile Options
        • Validate Authentication with the AI Application
        • Filter the Data for the Machine Learning Model
        • Start the Data Ingestion and Model Training
        • Validate the Setup
      • Test the Request Classifications
        • Test the Classification for New Requests
      • Use Insights Dashboard to Evaluate Accuracy
        • About the Insights Dashboard
        • Use the Insights Dashboard
  • 12 Enable Productivity Tools
    • How do I enable productivity tools?
    • How do I manage SmartText entries?
    • What are the SmartText naming conventions?
  • 13 Configure Notifications
    • Set Notification Triggers and Preferences
      • How do I enable notifications?
      • How do I set up groovy notification triggers?
      • How do I define notification triggers?
      • How do I set notification preferences?
      • Debug Groovy Triggers
    • Sample Groovy Scripts for Notifications
      • What's a sample groovy script for a notification for when a help desk request is assigned?
      • What's a sample Groovy script for when a Help Desk request is resolved?
      • Help Desk Request Escalated
  • 14 Adaptive Search
    • How do I use Adaptive Search for Help Desk?
  • 15 Collaborate with Slack
    • How do I collaborate with Slack?
    • Create a Collaboration Action for Slack
    • Create a Child Action for a Collaboration Action for Slack
    • Create a Second-Level Child Action for a Collaboration Action for Slack
    • Add an Event to Capture Messages Mentioning Your Slack App
  • 16 Collaborate with Microsoft Teams
    • How do I Set Up a Microsoft Teams Channel?
    • Create a Microsoft Teams App
    • Set Up a Bot User for Your Microsoft Teams App
    • Register Your Microsoft Teams App in the Azure Portal
    • Update Functional Setup Manager with Credentials of Your Microsoft Teams App
    • Create a Microsoft Teams Channel
    • Enable Notifications to Microsoft Teams
    • Create a Collaboration Action
    • Create a Child Action for a Collaboration Action
    • Create a Child Action for the Reply to Request Child Action
    • Configure the FND_IDP_PROXY_USER_WHITELIST Profile Option
    • Upload Your Microsoft Teams App
    • How do I install the Microsoft Teams app and add it to my team?
  • 17 Build Insightful Reporting with Help Desk Analytics
    • How do I view analyses using OTBI?
    • What are the analytics roles in Help Desk?
    • What subject areas are available in Help Desk Analytics?
    • Help Desk Analytics Saved Queries
  • 18 Import and Export
    • What's Import and Export Management?
    • Use Functional Setup Manager to Import, Export, and Compare Categories Between Environments
    • Before You Import
    • Import Objects
    • Overview of Bulk Data Export
  • 19 Manage Knowledge
    • Implement Knowledge for Help Desk
  • 20 Implement Cases for Help Desk
    • What's Case Management?
  • 21 Associate Assets and Work Orders to Help Desk Requests
    • How do I associate assets and work orders to Help Desk work requests?
    • Enable the Maintenance Help Desk Profile Option for REST API
  • 22 Manage Digital Assistant for Help Desk
    • How do I manage Digital Assistant for Help Desk?
  • 23 Channels for Collaboration
    • How do I control the display of channels used only for internal conversations?
    • How do I create an email channel for collaboration or internal conversations?
  • 24 Extend Help Desk
    • Using Visual Builder Studio
    • How do I extend my application?
    • Extensibility at a Glance
    • How do I configure Visual Builder Studio for Help Desk?
    • Set Up Visual Builder Studio
    • How to Provision a VB Studio Project Using an Application Template
    • Work with Dynamic UI
      • Get to Know Layouts
      • What dynamic forms can I extend?
    • Work with Dynamic Forms
      • How do I duplicate a form in Visual Builder?
      • How do I add conditions to a form using VB Studio?
      • How do I add, hide, or rearrange fields?
      • How do I create a custom field?
      • How do I add a custom field created in Application Composer?
      • How do I add a read only custom field using VB Studio?
      • How do I make a field read only or required?
      • Field Groups
      • Create Your Own Field Template
    • Work with Dynamic Tables
      • Extend Dynamic Tables
    • Work with Dynamic Containers
      • What's a Dynamic Container?
      • Configure a Dynamic Container
      • Work With Templates in a Container
    • Preview, Share, and Publish an Application Extension
  • 25 Configure HCM Pages with the Help Desk Link
    • How to Provide User Access to Help Desk
  • 26 Appendix: HR Help Desk Classic Configuration
    • About This Appendix
    • Overview of Configuring HR Help Desk
    • Enable HR Help Desk
    • Configure the HR Help Desk UI Using Application Composer
    • Enable the HR Help Desk Profile Options
    • How do I restrict contact search results?
    • How do I control user types displayed in the contact picker?
    • Synchronize Worker Data Loaded Through HDL in HR Help Desk
    • Configure Notifications
    • Manage Assignment Objects and Assignment Rules for HR Help Desk
    • Manage Service Request Categories and Product Usage Groups for HR Help Desk
    • HR Help Desk Email
      • Configure HR Help Desk Email
      • FAQs for HR Help Desk Email
        • What happens when a customer sends an HR Help Desk email?
    • Manage Other HR Help Desk Features
      • About Managing Service Entitlements in HR Help Desk
      • Overview of Setting Up Service Entitlements
      • Overview of Survey Integration
      • About Oracle Knowledge in HR Help Desk
      • Is reporting and analytics available in Help Desk?
      • About Productivity Tools in HR Help Desk
      • About Action Plans for HR Help Desk
      • About Service Request Outcomes and Resolutions for HR Help Desk
      • Configure HCM Pages for HR Help Desk
      • How do I set up a delegation for users to create Help Desk requests on behalf of others?
      • About Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) in HR Help Desk
      • Enable the Help Desk Mobile UI for Employees
    • Set Up Business Units for HR Help Desk
      • How are business units for set up for Service and Help Desk?
      • How do I enable multiple Business Units Fusion Service?
      • Manage Internal Resource Organizations for Service BUs
      • Manage Resource Organization Hierarchies for Service BUs
      • Create a Business Unit for Service
      • Associate Resource Organizations with Business Units
      • Create Employees for a Service BU
      • Set the Scope in Service BU Setup
      • Set the HR Help Desk Service Request BU
      • Overview of Optional Setup Tasks for Service BU