Agents deal with ideas and tickets while working in Customer Case. Here they can browse the available forums, view and comment on the submitted ideas or tickets.

See the next sections for details:

Logging in to Forums

Jira agents can log in to feedback forums with their Jira account.

  1. Click Sign in with Jira.
  2. In the opened form, enter your username and password in Jira.
  3. Click Sign in.

If you use different authentication options to log in to Customer Case, please consider the following:

  • Customer Case will automatically assign the Employee status to you, once you log in to the customer portal of your company with your Jira account. You can also get the Employee status if you sign in to Customer Case with your personal or social account prior to the first authorization with your Jira credentials. This can occur only when your Jira and social accounts share the same email address.
  • Nothing will happen if your Jira account and your social accounts are mapped to different email addresses. Depending on the authentication option, you will be treated by Customer Case as different users

Managing Requests in Customer Case

Viewing and Commenting on Requests

Jira agents can instantly proceed to Jira when viewing a particular request on the forum.

  1. Open a feedback or support forum.
  2. Locate and open the request you want to comment on.
  3. To comment on a request, enter your comment into the dedicated text area and click Post comment.
  4. To attach one or multiple files to your comment, click Add attachment and select files or drag files to the page. You can also insert images into comments by pasting them from the clipboard.

When you open requests that are assigned to other agents and add a reply, you can assign the request to yourself by checking the corresponding option:

Viewing Requests in Jira

  1. Open the request in Customer Case.
  2. Click the [...] button and select View in Jira. You will transition to Jira.

Changing the Status of Requests

You can change the status of issues in projects that do not have transition screens with the required fields. If the issue transition requires the definition of values in required fields, please perform this transition in Jira directly.

  1. Open the request in Customer Case.
  2. In the Status box, select the status of the request.

Adding Participants

Customer Case allows you to add participants for the submitted feature and support requests. On support forums, both the author of the request and support agents can add participants to the existing requests, on feedback forums only support agents can do this.

All the added participants receive a notification with the information about the person who added them as participants and the request information. If the person does not have an account in Customer Case, he or she will be prompted to sign up for the service. When adding participants on forums with access restrictions, Customer Case validates whether the email of the participant satisfies the defined access restrictions of the forum or not. If not, the notification is sent to the specified email address but the corresponded warning is displayed to the person who adds participants.

Now the users can view all the support requests that they submitted and the requests which they were added as participants into.

  1. In the right part of the screen, locate the Add participants link and click it.
  2. Enter the email address of a person you want to add as a participant. Customer Case will automatically convert the specified string into the email address once you press the Space, Enter, or, (Comma) button.
  3. Click Add once complete.

Pinning the Comment to the Top

This functionality is only available for feedback forums.

Sometimes you may find it necessary to pin some comment to the top of the comment list, so everyone who opens this idea can view the comment with actual information about it. It may be an official response from your team or a description of the solution or workaround that may help.

You can pin only one comment to the top of the list. If there is a comment already pinned to the top, you can either unpin it or pin another comment that will replace the current one. You can pin the comments of Jira agents and customers.

  1. Open the idea.
  2. Locate the comment you want to pin to the top of the list.
  3. Click Pin to top.
  4. Confirm the action.
  5. The Official answer section with the comment appears.
  6. To unpin the comment, click Unpin.

If the thread of comments is too long, but you need to locate where the pinned comment was posted you can view the comment in its original context. Click View original context.

Editing Ideas and Comments in Customer Case

Agents with Jira accounts can edit descriptions of all posted ideas, tickets, and comments.

  1. Open the idea or ticket or locate the appropriate comment.
  2. Click the Edit link.
  3. Update the idea or ticket description or comment.
  4. Click Save.

Agents can also edit comments and a description of ideas and tickets while viewing them in Jira Cloud.