Get Started with Response Templates

Overview

When individuals are processing tickets within the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) system, the same actions are often taken for similar ticket submissions. Importantly, the individual needs to inform the customer of the chosen action via update comments.

Application Administrators (App Admins) can create response templates to allow for consistent update comments, like canned responses, even when multiple individuals are processing similar items. When updating a ticket, the comments can be automatically generated by selecting a response template option, which can include the requestor name. Although each response template is configured to have unique text, they can also be grouped into categories for similar types of responses.

Response templates and categories can be created for individual ticketing applications. This action can be performed by a ticketing application's administrator.

Important
Information within Response Templates is sent in addition to the information within Notification Templates. It is strongly suggested that common information that should be included in all communication with a ticket Requestor and/or Contact, such as ticket number, title, link to the Service Portal, etc. be included as part of the applicable Notification Template, and not included as part of the Response Template. Review the Get Started with Notification Templates KB article for additional information on Notification Templates.

Next Steps

The following articles will guide App Admins through the process of creating ESM Response Template(s).

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