Claire Holtham Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 When raising a request from an email you have no view of the email as you log the call. You cannot refer back to the email if you've been distracted / need more detail, the only option is to cancel and start again. I'm starting a new topic from https://community.hornbill.com/topic/11408-emails/?tab=comments#comment-56990 One suggestion was to have another window open with the email in it. not ideal. Or alternatively to have the first two forms on the Capture be 'Customer' and then 'Request Details'. 'Request Details' was then supposed to have both the Summary and Description visible on the right hand side so you had sight of the body text of the email while filling in the rest of the request. However it doesn't it just has the summary. (see pic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyonel Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Actually, on this topic, why can't the summary & description of the new request be populated from the email directly? That would save us a lot of time! Then we can still edit if we want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 50 minutes ago, Claire Holtham said: 'Request Details' was then supposed to have both the Summary and Description visible on the right hand side @Claire Holtham it does...or it should... if in your example it doesn't we need to look to see why... 47 minutes ago, Lyonel said: why can't the summary & description of the new request be populated from the email directly? @Lyonel they actually do... or at least they should... when using the "Request Details" form in PCF... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire Holtham Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Hi @Victor - Any idea of where to start looking as to why it's not pulling through? One thing to mention, I've just set up a normal test catalogue item, and am not actually logging from email. At this point I did not want to mess with the live config. From 'Raise new' I get the form customer details (and enter customer details), I get the form Service (in order to get to my new test catalogue item), I get the form request details (and enter both a summary and a detailed description) then click next and it shows the screen shot I attached above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 @Claire Holtham ah I see... well the description is there but is... err... hidden ... if you click anywhere on the highlighted area, the request details should expand showing you the description as well. The downside is that you will also navigate (back) to the "Request Details" form... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyonel Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Victor said: @Lyonel they actually do... or at least they should... when using the "Request Details" form in PCF... @Victor It does not when using custom forms, mapping the custom fields to h_summary and h_description. The only reason we use custom forms is to customise the labels and help text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire Holtham Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 Oh dear @Victor that's a bit rubbish, if you could click on it and it expanded to see that would be fine, but taking you back to the beginning again isn't terribly helpful. Can you do anything for us? just a kind of preview pane to have the email visible as the analyst is building the call would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 21 minutes ago, Lyonel said: It does not when using custom forms, mapping the custom fields to h_summary and h_description. @Lyonel ahh.. I see... indeed when using custom forms it won't work... them email only understands the "Request Details" form (so to speak).... 9 minutes ago, Claire Holtham said: but taking you back to the beginning again isn't terribly helpful. Can you do anything for us? @Claire Holtham ... changing the behavior in this area would be something for our product managers/developers to investigate... @James Ainsworth @Steven Boardman might have an idea on if.. how.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyonel Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks @Victor for you response If the custom form could be looked at it would be fabulous! Maybe something very simple such as if custom form and field name = h_summary => same behaviour as "request details" form? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samwoo Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 @Aaron Summers had an issue with this earlier and I figured it out that we need to use the predefined Request Details form as opposed to the custom forms. But @Aaron Summers couldn't see the email applied to the details when raising a request... But I could. Eventually figured out that he needed to clear his cache and Ta-da he could see the email body pulled through. So... I wonder if having a branch based on the source would help (if we can do it). If Source = Email then use the standard Request Details form Otherwise use the custom Request Details form. Is this possible? (I'm not using Hornbill at the moment) Thanks, Samuel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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