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Odoo **Helpdesk ** is a ticket-based customer support application. Multiple teams can be configured
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and managed in one dashboard, each with their own pipeline for tickets submitted by customers.
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Pipelines are organized in customizable stages that enable teams to track, prioritize, and solve
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- customer issues quickly and efficiently.
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+ customer issues efficiently.
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Create a Helpdesk team
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manually on each individual ticket, or through :guilabel: `Automatic Assignment `. Check the
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:guilabel: `Automatic Assignment ` checkbox to enable this feature for the team.
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+ .. important ::
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+ If an employee has time off scheduled in the **Time Off ** application, they are **not ** assigned
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+ tickets during that time. If no employees are currently available, the system looks ahead on the
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+ calendar until there is a match.
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.. image :: helpdesk/helpdesk-visibility-assignment.png
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:alt: View of a Helpdesk team settings page emphasizing the automatic assignment features in Odoo
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Helpdesk.
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+ Assign tickets based on workload
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Select one of the following assignment methods, based on how the workload should be allocated across
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the team:
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- :guilabel: `Each user is assigned an equal number of tickets `: Tickets are assigned to team members
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- based on total ticket count, regardless of the number of open or closed tickets they are
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- currently assigned.
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+ based on total unassigned ticket count, regardless of the number of open or closed tickets they
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- :guilabel: `Each user has an equal number of open tickets `: Tickets are assigned to team members
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based on how many open tickets they are currently assigned.
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When :guilabel: `Each user has an equal number of open tickets ` is selected, it ensures a balanced
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workload among team members, as it takes the current number of active tickets into account.
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- Finally, add the :guilabel: `Team Members ` who are to be assigned tickets for this team. Leave the
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+ Add the :guilabel: `Team Members ` who are to be assigned tickets for this team. Leave the
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field empty to include all employees who have the proper assignments and access rights configured in
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their user account settings.
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+ Assign tickets based on expertise
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+ To assign tickets to team members based on their expertise, and the associated tag on the tickets,
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+ select :guilabel: `Dispatch tickets based on tags ` under :guilabel: `Automatic Assignment `. Then,
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+ click :guilabel: `Configure tags handled by team members `.
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+ Click :guilabel: `New ` to create a new :guilabel: `Ticket Tag `, such as `Pricing ` or `IT `. Select one
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+ or more :guilabel: `Team Members ` from the drop-down list. Click :guilabel: `Save ` when finished.
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.. important ::
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- If an employee has time off scheduled in the **Time Off ** application, they are **not ** assigned
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- tickets during that time. If no employees are available, the system looks ahead until there is a
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- match.
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+ If a ticket has no tag set, the ticket remains unassigned.
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.. seealso ::
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- :ref: `Manage users <users/add-individual >`
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This feature is **only ** available if the :doc: `CRM <../sales/crm >` app is installed.
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- To convert a ticket to an opportunity, first navigate to a ticket, either from a team's pipeline,
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- or by navigating to :menuselection: `Helpdesk app --> Tickets ` and clicking a ticket to open it.
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+ To convert a ticket to an opportunity, first navigate to a ticket, either from a team's pipeline, or
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+ by navigating to :menuselection: `Helpdesk app --> Tickets ` and clicking a ticket to open it.
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At the top of the ticket, click the :guilabel: `Convert to Opportunity ` button.
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