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</style><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>In this guide we will cover:</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>- </strong></span><strong>What are Scheduled tickets?</strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>- Creating Scheduled tickets</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>- Adding From Client Level</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What are Scheduled Tickets?</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Using Scheduled Tickets can inform your Agents of recurring events and monitoring to be done. This will generate a Ticket at a set time with a given interval (such as every month/year/week etc). </p><p style="text-align: left;"><br></p><p style="text-align: left;">It is possible to pre-format the Scheduled Ticket with set Field Values.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> This is useful for regular/repeat tasks such as server/asset maintenance, allowing you to have Tickets generated for all selected Assets when maintenance is due. Tickets will create automatically on the chosen schedule, and the attributes of the Ticket, such as who the End-User is, what Assets are associated, or associated Child Tickets, can also be configured on the schedule. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iK31dyuGVGQ?si=Ur6yoclQs98ruiGE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span></iframe></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Admin Guides:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://usehalo.com/haloitsm/guides/1822/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Scheduled Tickets</strong><br></a></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://usehalo.com/haloitsm/guides/2055/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Ticket Types</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p><ul><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://usehalo.com/haloitsm/guides/966/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Parent and Child Tickets</a></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://usehalo.com/haloitsm/guides/885/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ticket Templates</a></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://usehalo.com/haloitsm/guides/956/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linking Assets</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>For a detailed list of each configuration option and the description of what it does, refer to the Admin Guide.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Creating Scheduled tickets</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To create scheduled tickets head to Configuration > Tickets > Scheduled Tickets > New. <br></span></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjUzNjM3MzExLThjMWUtNDgyMi1hOTdhLTA5NDdhY2NmYzI1ZiJ9.jBQum7IeZTUKncrMJRbKy1P8EPChzUsGpPTkN2v8Qmg" class="fr-fic fr-dii" width="105" height="133"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 1. Scheduled Tickets Module.</span></strong></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImQ1YzViYWMyLWZhN2ItNDNiZi1hMGViLThjNjFhYzI3MmQ2OSJ9.ccl0mt-BW6urQDs4lXFPT_EkMQyx6KokxH1aX2cBYt0" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" width="946" style="width: 948px; height: 658.171px;" height="658"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 2. Scheduled Ticket Creation.</span></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Give this ticket a name, this will be the nominal title in the Scheduled Ticket list (this is not the title or details of the end Ticket).</p><p><br></p><p>Now you will need to set the schedule the Ticket(s) is created on. </p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Schedule</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How you configure the schedule will depend on the schedule type chosen. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Start date and repeat period </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When chosen you will be able to choose a date for the schedule to begin on, then choose how often the schedule repeats. Various repeat periods can be chosen from including:</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Weekly</li><li>Monthly</li><li>Quarterly</li><li>6 Monthly</li><li>Yearly</li><li>2,3,4,5,10 Yearly</li></ul><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is useful when you would like Tickets to always be created at the same time (start of the week/month) at set intervals. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImI4YjA5NWJkLTBhN2EtNDVhYy1hZTBhLTZiODViOGNhNjEwYSJ9._TLhBvuoSk62GSAP05Lz7iH85C4RMrmgzKxmfQWODsQ" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" style="width: 812px; height: 566.577px;" width="810" height="567"></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 3. Start date and repeat period setup.</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Selected Days of the Week</span></strong></p><p>When chosen you will be able to choose what days of the week you would like Tickets to create and how often you would like them to create, at what interval. </p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImNmYjJjOTliLWY2YzQtNGJmNy04ZGFiLWMyMzcwZDkxNjIyNCJ9.rNoKF7C_of5JWEMR3GAu4YV88ldaEBQ4_aHyliyrKZM" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" width="1225" style="width: 1227px; height: 555.861px;" height="556"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 4. Configuring The Schedule.</span></strong></p><p><br></p><p>This is useful when you would like Tickets to be created on specific days of the week, such as when sending regular weekly or daily Reports and is a WYSIWYG system. The calendar will highlight in blue the days tickets will be created on.</p><p><strong><br></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Day of the Month and Repeat Interval</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When chosen you will be able to choose a specific day of the month for Tickets to be created on, and configure a repeat schedule for this. So Tickets will be created at the same time of the month, every month, or every other month, for every year, etc. </span></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImIxOGZjMDdjLWUxMDUtNDBkYS04ZjE3LTM2M2FmMTc3YWRhMSJ9.wJNfmkmNteF2wz5CCoj2MKGhAGs6H7dU7CcEgpxJP7E" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" width="993" style="width: 995px; height: 673.289px;" height="673"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 5. Using Day of The Month With a Repeat Schedule.</span></strong></p><p><br></p><p>This screen is a little more involved with "Send on this month" being the calendar month's number </p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>0=Every Month, 1 = January, 2 = February etc.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Repeat months determines how often tickets are created. </p><p><br></p><p>Repeat years determines how many years the schedule repeats. </p><p><br></p><p>Send on this month determines which month the tickets creates on. </p><p><br></p><p>It should be noted that If<strong> </strong>"Send on this month"<strong> </strong>is 0 then the schedule will ignore repeat months. It should also be noted that if 'Send on This Day Of the Month' is outside of the date parameters (31st of Feb for example) then the ticket will be sent on the last day of the month.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Setting the End-Users of the Ticket </span></strong></p><p>Under the "Users" tab you can set who the End-Users of the Tickets created will be. </p><p><br></p><p>If this schedule only needs to create one Ticket, just choose here who the End-User of the Ticket is. </p><p><br></p><p>If you would like a ticket to be created for every User selected here, set the "Ticket creation" (under the Schedule tab) to be "Create a Ticket for every user linked to this schedule". </p><p><br></p><p>If you would like the Users that Tickets are created for to change dynamically, you can use a SQL query to determine which Users have Tickets created for them in this schedule. </p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjQwZmJlZmEzLWE5YjEtNGJhOS05YTZkLWU3YWYwOWIzMWQ3OCJ9.P97JKbGDJNm0uLfb3rYD0yaeO5b7W5ous9vT0YVuF50" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" width="946" style="width: 948px; height: 578.852px;" height="579"></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 6. Determine who the end users of the ticket(s) is.</span></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ticket Values</span></strong></p><p>The Values tab holds the pre-populated fields which will appear on the Ticket.</p><p><br></p><p>Give the Ticket a Ticket Type/Template, Summary and Details as you would when you manually add a new Ticket and select the default Status, Team and Agent as necessary.</p><p><br><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjcxZWY2MGU2LTZkMGEtNGU1My05NWM2LWI4ZjY4MjgzYzlhYSJ9.aArAkJQ63kIPi3MWhW_jkRszATg3HhaRxNzJrLNtG0c" class="fr-fic fr-dii" width="185" height="237"></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Fig 7. Status, Team and Agent</strong></span></p><p><br></p><p>Carry on down the values list as if it were any other Ticket with the same Ticket Type.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Set To-Do lists</span></strong></p><p>Click on the "To-Do Lists" tab and add any necessary to-do tasks in here.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Related Assets</span></strong></p><p>If you would like the Scheduled Ticket to have Assets related to it upon creation (useful when the task is for Asset maintenance/events) you can do this under the "Related Assets" tab. All Assets added here will be related to the Ticket upon creation. </p><p><br></p><p>If you would like a Ticket to be created for every Asset selected here set the "Ticket creation" (under the Schedule tab) to be "Create a Ticket for every asset linked to this schedule".</p><p><br></p><p>If you would like the Assets' Tickets are created for to change dynamically, you can use a SQL query to determine which Assets are linked to this schedule therefore which Assets Tickets are created for.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Child Tickets</span></strong></p><p>If you would like any Child Tickets to be created under this Ticket, head to the "Children" tab and choose the Templates to be used for the Child Tickets to be created. </p><p><br></p><p>Your Ticket will now create on the schedule you have set with all the pre-populated values you have pre-set.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Note: If you have applied a template to the scheduled ticket (under values tab), any child tickets on the template will be created too in addition to the templates assigned in the "Children" tab.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Adding From Client Level</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You can add Scheduled Tickets from the client screen, there is a tab called "Scheduled Tickets" (From The Navigation Menu Click on The Clients/ Customers Area).</span></p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://halo.haloservicedesk.com/api/attachment/image?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6ImRhZDNlYmYwLTFiNWQtNGY1YS1hMzg3LTJkNTkyMGY3NTRhYiJ9.dKiqmtwX7OsNfOGAoi9tRThYmYVE4nuwO2a5xo1khAU" class="fr-fic fr-fil fr-dib" width="922" height="445"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fig 8. Scheduled Tickets Tab at Client Level.</span></strong></p>