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Manage Settings

You can customize your support desk from this area of the inexpensive help desk software. Use the table below if you need a detailed description of each field.

Field

Description

Custom Settings

Language Pack

You can use this option to translate your support desk to another language. English and Russian are available by default but you can translate the support desk into any other foreign language.  Check out the Translate section of the support desk install guide to get more information.

Allow users to choose password

Check this box if you want your users to have the option of choosing their own password.

Assign all tickets to default department

OR

Allow user to select desired department

Selecting one of these buttons allows users to choose a specific department they want to submit their ticket or the default department.

Give users option to un-subscribe in profile

When this box is checked, users have the option of un-subscribing from your support desk on their profile.

If you would like to blacklist certain emails then click here.

Clicking this link will redirect you to the area where you can blacklist emails.

If you would like to blacklist certain IP's then click here.

Clicking this link will redirect you to the area where you can blacklist IP's.

Allow attachments from users

Select from the drop down whether you want users to attach documents when submitting tickets.

Allow attachments from staff

Check this box if you want your staff to attach documents when responding to tickets.

Enable pop email capabilities

Check this box to enable pop email capabilities.

Allow new users to register from login page

Users can register to your helpdesk from the login page if this box is checked.

Users can rate support tickets

Check this box to give user the ability to rate support tickets.

Allow admin to add additional emails to profile

Checking this box allows your admin to add additional emails on users profiles.

Allow users to add additional emails to profile

Checking this box allows users to add additional emails to their profile.

Show pending tickets in the main ticket area

If this is not checked, when the staff views the tickets on the main page in the main area they will not see pending tickets and only the open tickets will be listed. To view the pending tickets, they will have to click on a special link. This is used if you do not want to mix pending and open tickets in the main area.

Validate the email for new tickets

Check this box if you to validate the email of new tickets.

Enable natural language search in the KB

This allows users to use plain English formatted searches for the article database

Allow HTML Editor

This option turns the HTML editor on and off for the article database

When staff respond to ticket via help desk have the status be

From the drop down, select what status you want for the ticket after your staff responds to it via help desk. By default the status closed is selected but you have two other options; open and in progress.

When staff responds to ticket via email have status be

From the drop down, select what status you want for the ticket after your staff responds to it via email. By default the status closed is selected but you have two other options; open and in progress.

Staff emails from support system should be from

Set the email address you want users to see when staff respond/contact users via support system.

Show last five articles on home page

Check this box if you want to show the last five articles on your support desk home page.

Priority Settings

By default there are three priorities setup for your help desk which are low, medium and high, however you may customize these priorities and add additional priorities. You have the option of having emails sent to specified emails based on the priority of the ticket. In addition, you can set the help desk to scan the subject of your support tickets for certain keywords and based upon these keywords override the selected priority. By default your user will be able to choose the priority of their help tickets, but if you do not want users to be able to select the priority then the priority will be set to whatever you have set for the default priority. In addition, any tickets that come in via email will automatically be set to the priority of what you set for your default priority. To modify priorities go to the Priority Management Area.

Spam Protection Settings

Enable CAPTCHA Spam Protection

This option allows you to use CAPTCHA fields at the bottom of pages to prevent spam

Use custom font for CAPTCHA (enter path)

This is where you enter the size of your CAPTCHA Font

Jitter (between 0 and 255, the more is the higher)

This determines the amount of jitter, you should make sure your CAPTCHA can be read if you turn this up

Color Jitter (between 0 and 255, the more is the higher)

This determines the amount of color jitter, you should make sure your CAPTCHA can be read if you turn this up

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