Webforms
Webforms can help stakeholders & the customers of an organization easily report issues
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Squadcast allows organizations to expand their customer support by hosting public Webforms, so their customers can quickly create an alert from outside the Squadcast ecosystem. Not only this, but internal stakeholders can also leverage Webforms for easy alert creation.
Webforms also support custom CNAMES so you can host them on your own domain, say https://support.example.com.
Check out our blog post for more information!
To configure a webform:
Navigate to Webforms -> Create Webform
Setting up a Webform consists of 4 steps:
Give the Webform a Name
2. By default, every Webform has a public URL (Squadcast hosted). However, you can also set up custom CNAMES so you can host them on your own domain
3. Associate tag key-value pairs with your Webforms
Choose the owner of the Webform. The owner can be a user, or a squad in which the Webform is being set up.
Select the services that would be displayed on the Webform. For the selected services, aliases can be defined. This is especially important since your services in Squadcast might have names that are internal/technical for your customers/stakeholders
Here is where you can define the input fields reporters can associate with the alerts they create. Specify the Input fields that the reporter will see on the Webform and can select one of the options against the label.
Give each input field type a label and options. This helps the reporter to understand which label would be most relevant to them while creating the alert. These labels will be reflected as tags for the created alert.
Fill in the Form Header, Title, and Description fields to customize and give more context to your users
Upload a logo (of size not larger than 70 kB)
The Footer Text and Link fields can be used to route your users to your website, a mail link, or even a Status Page if you use one!
If you want your reporter to receive email updates for the issue reported, you can choose the option(s) - send an email on the issue “trigger”, send an email on the issue “acknowledged by internal team”, send an email on the issue “resolution”
With this, your Webform configuration is complete! Depending on the mode of setup for hosting your Webform, your Webform will now be publicly accessible.
Issues reported here will create incidents in Squadcast for the selected Service. The severity selected here gets added as a tag to the incident. The creation of the incident will, in turn, will trigger the Escalation Policies accordingly.
There are 2 ways in which the right responders are notified of Webform incidents:
If there are Routing Rules defined for severities of the services listed in the Webform, the tag would then trigger the configured Routing Rules. Based on the Routing Rules defined, the right user, squad, or escalation will be notified for the incident.
If there are no Routing Rules defined for severities of the services listed in the Webform, then the default escalation policy of the service for which the incident has been triggered will be executed.
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