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HR New Employee Workflow in Web Help Desk?

brmc over 9 years ago

In IT, we are wanting to streamline the new hire process. When a new employee starts, we have to create an AD account, email address, accounts for other software, etc. We need to be reminded with tickets of all the different tasks. Here's my idea for this:

HR sends an email with parameters specified that puts in the original ticket to fire off the different tasks. One of the fields in the email will be a custom field containing the Employee name.

Based on this initial ticket entered, can it pass the employee name to the other tasks/tickets? For example....HR enters John Smith as the name.

1. Task 1 fires off that is "Create AD Account"...the details show "John Smith" which was grabbed from the original ticket or email.

2. Task 2 fires - create email - details show John Smith wihin

3. etc for multiple tasks.

Please note that containing the name within the tasks are important as we may have multiple people start at the same time.

Thoughts on this?

0 kjette over 9 years ago

Unfortunately this is not possible. I've struggled with this from the start and while you can spawn as many tickets as you want from a task it will not populate information from the Parent. The only way I got around this was to treat a new employee ticket as an approval request. When a new ticket is entered it creates and sends an approval request to all the included areas and they know to respond with Approved once their part is complete. This way I have all the information on one ticket instead of several for the same new employee. Not ideal but at least it works.
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0 typhoon87 over 9 years ago

We also have struggled with this. I have created approval processes for each incoming and outgoing employee as well as change of status. The issues include that things must go in order of the approval process which is sometimes good and sometimes not. There is not a way I have found to enable easy way of changing of the ticket status to resolved or closed when the approval process completes.
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0 apap over 9 years ago

We also bumped into this short coming. The work around we put into place was to create a custom field that is a checklist of action items that need done for each request type. This custom field is a Multiple Choice type so that as each item is completed the 'choice' can me checked off within the ticket. The single ticket remains open and is passed between techs that complete each step.
i.e. Email; Access Card; Orientation; Payroll
Item(s) within the multiple choice checklist can also be detected with an Action Rule, so that you can detect when all or parts of the checklist is complete. Notifications and/or tech reassignments, etc can be made on the ticket this way.
It is less than ideal but has been working for us.
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