News in NSP 10.7.5.360.1/10.7.5.361.1 (02/18/2019)

Agent Portal

Unlock Ticket permission

Nlxid: REQ0005088

Messages and lock indication in ticket form has been improved.

Agents can have permission to unlock tickets that other agent has locked. This is inserted as a permission setting on agent Role, tab Entity Action, section Tickets.

If locked ticket is opened in Edit mode when you inlock, you need to close down and reopen the ticket form to unlock all ticket fields.

Read more: Lock tickets

 

Ticket Quickstep, Delete without first enter mandatory field.

Nlxid: REQ0004730

Bug fix in Quickstep Delete. In earlier version you were forced to enter data to all mandatory fields in the ticket form before it was possible to delete. This check is now removed so you can delete the ticket with mandatory fields not filled in.

 

Customer Feedback in Dashboard

It is possible for End Users to give feedback to agent when they close ticket on SSP. End User can click one of those icons:

Feedback is shown in Agent´s Dashboard summary stats widget:

Customer feedback shows feedback from customer current week.

 

Ticket already opened indication

Nlxid: REQ0003355, REQ0003608

Improvements of yellow indication in Dashboard and Views that ticket is already opened by other user. If user closes ticket correctly by selecting new Status or by x in the ticket tab is the indication automatically removed in other user´s view. However, if user logs out or close down the browser when a ticket is currently open, other users need to refresh Dashboard or View to remove the indication.

 

CMDB

Multi update of CIs

Nlxid: REQ0005083

New function to update properties for multiple CIs at the same time.

In CI List there are inserted checkboxes on each row where you can mark multiple CIs. In Mass update form you then can select which properties that shall be updated. For each selected property you can select a new value or set value=empty (remove old value).

Read more: CI Mass update.

 

Network Scanning Filters

New function to add an application filter to Network Scanning order. The filter limits which computers and software applications that shall be included in the scanning. The filter should be added as json code in a textbox before start of scanning. First part filter which computers shall be included in the scan, second part filter which applications shall be included.

Read more:

Network Scanning

Filter examples

 

New CI Properties

Nlxid: REQ0004744

Two properties are added to CI Type:

   Business Category

   Department Number

Properties can be imported from System_DISC table in SCCM database during SCCM network scanning.

If you are in need of this functionality or want more information, contact NSP support (nspsupport@nilex.se).

 

Service Catalog

Outbox for SSP Service Catalog orders

Nlxid: REQ0004986

For orders from Service Catalog the system´s Maintenance host (MH) needs to be active. If MH was  not active an error message was shown when order a service item.

From this version an outbox is inserted. It is now possible to order when MH is not active. Order is put in outbox and is automatically executed when MH has been activated.

 

Service Catalog Permission settings

Nlxid: REQ0005047

New settings for service items:

Disable Ordering: Checkbox, if enabled order of service item is not available on Self Service Portal. Buttons for Order and Add to Chart are hided. Purpose of this setting is e g when ordering shall be temporarily disabled without changing other settings.

View Permissions (Groups): Add Groups for which the service item shall be shown on SSP. If no groups are added the item is visible for all groups.

Order Permissions (Groups): Add Groups that shall be able to order the service item. If no groups are added the item is available for all groups.

Read more: Add new Service Catalog item

 

Knowledge base

Users defined as BCC when article is sent by mail

You can select Groups as recipient when sending KB article by email, email will then be sent to all members of the groups, or you can select recipients individually (or a combination of groups and users). All recipients is set as BCC, this means that a single person that receive the email never can see which the other recipients are.

 

Social media

Twitter

Now NSP has a solution to monitor social media also with Twitter. Questions and comments from Twitter and Facebook can be handled.

 

Other

Hard delete of tickets

Nlxid: REQ0004895

Hard Delete – ticket and all connected objects (comments, attachments, worklogs, tasks, etc) are deleted. Delete is done by procedure running in background. Procedure schedule is inserted by script. It is recommended to schedule running during night. Tickets that shall be deleted shall be marked (manually or by a trigger). A new property, MarkedForDelete is added to Base Entity Request, when this property is set TRUE will the procedure delete the ticket.

If you are in need of this functionality or want more information, contact NSP support (nspsupport@nilex.se).

 

SQL Archiving

Nlxid: REQ0004896

A new SQL view for archiving of tickets. Db view is called from excel and the list can then be saved in an archive (CSV file).

If you are in need of this functionality or want more information, contact NSP support (nspsupport@nilex.se).

 

Updated NSP Public API

Nlxid: REQ0005082

Updates added to API.

 

Charging, new field for Invoice settings

New field, Invoice Start Date, is inserted for Invoice setting in a Charging Plan. As before you define invoice per week, per month, etc. New setting defines from which date the cyclic invoice settings shall be used.

 

Customer Change Notes

NSP 10.7.5.361.1

Improvements

Nilex Ticket ID

Description

REQ0003724

Improvements for Performance on KB

Wishes/RFC

Nilex Ticket ID

Description

REQ0004730

REQ0002091

Quickstep: Using delete possible to delete ticket without adding mandatory fields

REQ0002528

REQ0004800

REQ0004280

Some Info from KB are hidden for Endusers

REQ0005088

Permissions for locked tickets, and ui notification for unlocking the ticket

REQ0004647

REQ0004727

Add new - hardcoded in field reported by - Entity Editor

REQ0005083

REQ0000596

Possibility to update several CI:s at the same time

REQ0004440

Organization form: CI tab shall include also CIs owned by the organization

REQ0005082

Changes in RestApi

REQ0004897

Possible to unlock a locked ticketfor agent

REQ0004896

SQL view archiving

REQ0004895

 Hard delete - tickets incl. all related objects

REQ0004744

More properties from SCCM to NSP

REQ0005047

Permissions on Service catalog

Bugs

Nilex Ticket ID

Description

REQ0005010

Time format not correct exported to Excel

REQ0004975

Knowledgebase user permissions dont work

REQ0004908

If priority order is changed - error when saviing ticket

REQ0004902

REQ0005218

The costfield shows the wrong value

REQ0004871

GDPR: Wrong confirmation message to EndUser

REQ0004867

Company tag on print Text template does not read input

REQ0004799

Ordered list and unordered list don’t show in SSP

REQ0004795

REQ0004679

REQ0004616

REQ0004847

AddNewTab error - session time

REQ0004794

Ticket on close pop up - comment timer time should be transferred into pop up

REQ0004775

Dashboard; Empty left panel

REQ0004508

Tab Organization - Visual error for HTML field on Organization

REQ0001069

Problem to send report to users using  a CSV files

REQ0004424

Linked ticket list in user profile is empty

REQ0003355

REQ0003608

REQ0003642

Views: Indicator for Already opened by errors

REQ0005113

Paging don’t work for linked tickets

REQ0005137

User created date and time field will not be saved in ticket

REQ0005117

Editing a description in a custom fields does not apply to the item

REQ0005116

Custom field checkbox Show info in panel has no impact

REQ0005025

Ticket History: Wrong agent is set on history action in ticket

REQ0004870

Unable to start NNS agent

REQ0004841

Urgency/Impact matrix: priority is not set

REQ0005128

Close Task confirmation question is shown when nothing has been changed

REQ0005092

Service order: Date and time field show UTC Time

REQ0005186

Add CC to CC field using Autocomplete don’t work properly

REQ0005087

Problem with SC and custom field(Radio button) and default value not show

REQ0004636

Unable to match users with CIs

REQ0004998

Unable to change SLA conditions

REQ0005138

 CC (on ticket) with agent type gets a "new comment notification"

REQ0005186

Add CC to CC field using Autocomplete don’t work properly

REQ0005119

Chosen date in Service item not showing right

REQ0005155

Problem with PRO licens - Should not show Shopping cart