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Workflow Notification Step

Hi all,
Can someone please help me understand the what the purpose of the Recipient Role(s) selection in the notification step? Looks like it isn't required. Thank you.
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Michael Rodriguez Last activity on 2/21/2024 8:10:05 AM by David Tod

Workflow feed entry visibility

Is there a way to make workflow feed entries, such as "X approved this request" not private on the ticket feed? We have some approvers who want to see the approval history on a ticket.
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Mariah Rible Last activity on 2/5/2024 12:51:51 PM by Mark Sayers

Clear or Force Updating the Required Type Field

We've implemented new Type categorization. We have a generic Type that we use as a placeholder for email intake. We would like our staff to always update the Type on the ticket after submission. Is there a way to force our staff to update this fi...
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Julien Rossow-Greenberg Last activity on 1/25/2024 11:26:31 AM by Mark Sayers

Retrieving User Location from API

Hello,
I am currently working on a workflow where I am hoping to send a notification to a specific group based of a users location. The issue I am having is that the it is not the requestors location that I am needing, but a users that the re...
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Tuscun McFarlen Last activity on 11/22/2023 9:29:19 AM by Mark Sayers

Getting an Email from a Person attribute

I have a form where the user selects an "affected account" which is a person attribute. Then, I have a workflow that needs to send a notification, and the notification body must include the email of the "affected account". However, the person fie...
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Tamara Buch Last activity on 10/25/2023 12:28:39 PM by Tamara Buch

Workflow Tasks showing under "Awaiting Approval"

I have a form that is used for laptop repairs and technicians go through a list of inspections and mark if components work. When the ticket is submitted the workflow checks if any of the fields were marked as "repair needed" and then creates a ta...
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Tyler Steele Last activity on 10/18/2023 11:00:08 AM by Mark Sayers

Workflow Timer Step

Hello everyone, is there a known issue with the Timer service in TDX Workflows?
I have a 1 minute timer in a couple different workflows, but it never takes 1 minute. It usually takes about 5 minutes, but I've seen it take over 10 minutes as w...
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Tamara Buch Last activity on 10/11/2023 4:31:03 PM by Mark Sayers

Report for Workflow Approvals

Is there a way to get a report that will show all workflow approvals and who was the user that approved it?
I'm trying to get a count on who is the majority approver for our workflows, but I'm only seeing the ability to get a report on Workfl...
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Nathan Ignatz Last activity on 8/15/2023 2:22:40 PM by Brittany Renn

Creating a new ticket in a separate ticketing app with workflow

Is there a way to have a workflow in App A create a ticket in App B without using web services or iPaaS?
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Jason Rider Last activity on 8/11/2023 11:21:20 AM by Brittany Renn

I have a new form that does not allow workflow to be assigned.

Assign workflow is not in the Actions list. It is a Public form.
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JAMES HOUSEHOLDER Last activity on 8/3/2023 8:57:59 AM by Brittany Renn

Integration with Microsoft Entra's Lifecycle Workflows in the future?

I know this is a new feature, so I'll understand if this is something that has yet to be discussed, but is there any possibility of integrating with Microsoft Entra's new Lifecycle Workflows in the future to further enhance how workflows process?...
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Darrin Johnson, Jr. Last activity on 7/26/2023 3:18:15 PM by Mark Sayers

Report on tickets that have a workflow completed

We have a work flow called Networking Firewall, we need to run a report based on which of dozen of tickets have this workflow completed.
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Anita Barrett Last activity on 7/25/2023 11:49:49 AM by Mark Sayers

Automation Rule not applying workflow to ticket

Hello,
We have a automation rule that grabs a certain type of ticket, and then changes the impact, urgency, priority, and assigns to a workflow. The automation rule works-ish. I successfully changes the responsibility, impact, urgency, but fa...
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Justin Gonzales Last activity on 7/12/2023 9:27:51 AM by Brittany Renn

Notifications on Status Change

Greetings,
We have specific tickets (All under a specific service) that will need to notify a specific group of people when resolved/closed & Opened/Created. We are using an automation rule to assign the ticket to a specific workflow th...
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Rik Miller Last activity on 6/27/2023 9:05:29 AM by Brittany Renn

wait for previous workflow steps to be completed

I have created a workflow that has worked fine, but the people using the workflow wants the final step to wait until all the other steps have been completed.
I know this can be done (using wait for previous steps to be completed), but I canno...
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Mathew Chandler Last activity on 6/26/2023 9:44:43 AM by Brittany Renn

Approval step 'access denied'

Hello,
We have a request process that uses a workflow to get approval. We ran into a strange issue. In this scenario, there were 4 potential approvers (only 1 required). After the first approver had approved the ticket, the subsequent approve...
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Mariah Rible Last activity on 6/14/2023 1:27:14 PM by Mark Sayers

Workflow Conditions

Hello,
I am trying to create a workflow that would auto-close tickets for my team after 3 weeks if no updates have been made and the ticket is in certain statuses. I want it to start a 2-week timer once the ticket is assigned to our group, an...
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Miranda Bielecki Last activity on 6/8/2023 1:09:53 PM by Mark Sayers

Putting Ticket attribute information into ticket tasks automatically.

Hello,
We have created a work flow that generates tasks if certain conditions are met. I am wondering if there is a way that we can automatically take form attributes that are pertinant to the tasks and have them automatically populate the ta...
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Justin Gonzales Last activity on 4/10/2023 1:41:15 PM by Mark Sayers

TD Report Workflow Approval

I'm sure the answer is no based on what I see for filters but I'm going to ask anyway.
Is there anyway to include in a ticket report when a workflow approval step is reject?
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Kevin Beattie Last activity on 3/29/2023 3:40:53 PM by Brittany Renn

How do you stop workflow/web services if a ticket has been resolved?

Finding that when a ticket has been resolved or cancelled or if an approval is rejected that the WF will not stop. Any Tasks, notifications, etc keep running. How do you stop this?
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Chrissie Kenny Last activity on 3/17/2023 1:54:27 PM by Brittany Renn

Automation Rule to Set Requestor

Good morning:
I wanted to ask if there is a way to use automation rules to set a requestor for specific services or forms if the requestor is not set? I see that there is a filter that can fit these criteria in Automation Rules, but there doe...
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Anderson Hanchett Last activity on 3/14/2023 2:31:44 PM by Mark Sayers

Change Management Workflow Switches Ticket to Service Request

Hello,
We are implementing change management in our environment and are running into an issue with an approval workflow. The Change form we use creates a Change ticket if the data entered does not trigger the workflow. If the criteria matches...
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Jesse Gobeli Last activity on 2/8/2023 4:33:41 PM by Mark Sayers

iPaaS flow issues

We noticed issues with the workflows associated with iPaaS around 3:18pm yesterday, Monday. Has anyone else experienced issues with their flows, like the one below?​​​​​
System (private)
The "Ticket Status Change: On Hold Awaiting Approva...
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Robert Kelly Last activity on 1/24/2023 9:57:54 AM by Mark Sayers

Approvers approving their own request

I have a workflow that references department custom attributes for approvers. For each department, there are custom attributes 'Approver 1' and 'Approver 2' that are both people. I use these custom attributes in the Workflow Approval Step for a p...
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Mariah Rible Last activity on 1/23/2023 1:08:56 PM by Mariah Rible

Workflow Notification Step Recipients

Why is it that in a workflow notification step, the options for who you are able to send a notification to so narrow? Regular ticket notification options are quite robust and I don't understand why an entirly different notification method was dev...
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Carl Amlin Last activity on 1/20/2023 9:47:06 AM by Mark Sayers