Freshdesk

Send ticket details to Squadcast from Freshdesk
​Freshdesk solves your unique challenges, from ticketing and phone to messaging apps and social media, with Freshdesk's modern omnichannel support.
Route detailed ticket alerts from Freshdesk to the right users in Squadcast.
How to integrate Freshdesk with Squadcast
In Squadcast: Using Freshdesk as an Alert Source
1.Navigate to Services -> Service Overview -> select or search for your Service. Expand the accordion -> In the Alert Sources section, click Add.
2. Select Freshdesk. Copy the displayed Webhook URL to configure it within Freshdesk. Finish by clicking Add Alert Source -> Done.
Important:
When an alert source turns Active, it’ll show up under Configured Alert Sources, you can either generate a test alert from the integration or wait for a real-time alert to be generated by the Alert Source. An Alert Source is active if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.
In Freshdesk: Create a Squadcast webhook alert
(1) In the app, go to Admin > Workflows > Automations to create the webhook
(2) Click on New Rule
(3) Fill in the form as shown in the subsequent screenshots (you can put your own checks):
(4) Fill Perform these actions form as shown below:
Select Trigger webhook
Request Type: POST
URL: Paste the previously copied Squadcast webhook here
Encoding JSON
Content: Simple
All the following variables have to be added in order to send this information associated with the ticket to create the incident in Squadcast:
Subject
Description
Ticket ID
Ticket URL
Product Specific Ticket URL
Tags
Status
Priority
Source
Group Name
Contact Name
Contact Phone
Contact Email
Agent Name
Agent Email
Due by Time
(4) Do the following for sending resolve alert to Squadcast:
(a) Navigate to Ticket Updates tab and click on New Rule
(b) Fill the below form according to your requirements.
For example:
(c) Fill Perform these actions form as shown below:
Find more details on Rule creation here​
(5) Next, to create the alert, follow the steps below:
(a) Click on New > New Ticket or,
(b) Fill the form below and click on Create
status Open -> to trigger incident at Squadcast
status Resolved -> to resolve incident at Squadcast
status Closed -> to resolve incident at Squadcast
That is it, you are now good to go! Whenever a ticket is created or updated, an incident will be created in Squadcast. When the ticket is either resolved or closed in Freshdesk, the corresponding incident will automatically get resolved in Squadcast as well.
Note:
Please ensure you are not sending the < character or any HTML Tag within the ticket description that would come in the Description ticket variable. This will cause the content of the description to break and the entire information will not be displayed.
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