Adrian Simpkins Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 hi All, I am not sure if this has been suggested previously, but I would like to suggest an enhancement to allow customers to connect other customers in the portal after a request has been raised. Currently we are offering a connection as part of the questions asked when a request is raised, but this allows just for the connection of one person. Would it be possible to allow customers to self-connect once a request has been raised, please? The reasoning behind this is there are certain scenarios where teams may want to connect more than one person to a request, or the need to connect someone post raising arises. Rather than have a clunky loop in the IC questions around are you connection one or more people to this request etc it would just make sense to offer this feature to our customers to manage direct in the portal. So, we would offer one connection in the raised request questions, but then can advise our customers if they want to connect further people to do this direct in the Support Hub Many thanks as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Giller Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 On 10/11/2022 at 11:20 AM, Adrian Simpkins said: Would it be possible to allow customers to self-connect once a request has been raised, please? This sounds like the "I'm Affected" button - can you clarify what additional functionality you're asking for here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Simpkins Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 Hi Steve Rather than 'I am affected' by an issue, this is more just to allow customers to connect another user to allow the other person to view the request in the portal. Currently we are connecting one person in the IC / BPM flow, but I wanted to see if it would be possible for a customer to add another connection after the request has been raised. So as an example I raise a request that needs my manager comments but this is not identified until the request has been raised. I would then go into the portal and self connect another user to my request. Hope that makes sense Many thanks Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Giller Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 I think the Developers will need a much tighter scope on this if it's to be considered - for example, what's to stop the person who raised the Request adding everyone in the Company as a Contact? That's not saying it can't or won't be possible, but there's a lot more going on with a request like this than the simple use case reveals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Simpkins Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 Yes of course we would not want everyone added, but if it is just a name search field, and not the options we get like Team / Org etc then it should only ever be one person added at a time. I don't envisage everyone would make use of it, but it just seems like a good way to offer connections to customers that are self managed. I would envisage maybe someone going off, so connects a colleague, or manager wants to comment etc Many thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samwoo Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 +1 to Adrian's idea @Steve Giller - not sure what @Adrian Simpkins would think of this (Adrian - please feel free to shout out if you completely disagree), but what about having it configured per service rather than globally? This will allow us to select what Connection Types customers can add, and how many of that connection type can be added once a request has been raised? In addition, provide the ability to allow the Customer to go in and make any amendments to existing connections if they so wish (which could also be configurable so it can be disabled so they must ask the analyst to change it). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samwoo Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Here is a mock-up using the developer tools: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Simpkins Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 Hi Sam Looks like a good way to administer it, and by Service is fine as we have the current connection configuration under each Service so makes sense to place any change there around customer self administration Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Cantrell Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 +1 - we had this functionality in our previous portal and are definitely missing it in Hornbill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Cantrell Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 Just circling back on this - we recently put out a survey to our end users, and this functionality was "The Most"(tm) requested feature, both adding connections retrospectively and during the IC process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto2002 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 +1 I can see a use for this. If HB were looking for a 'project' to connect this to, I think there is a whole case for customers to be able to do more on their own Requests as per my previous request for buttons that Customers can use themselves to Close, Escalate, Hold, Approve (and now Add Connections) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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