Major Additions - microSUPPORT (F.A.Q & Ticketing Live Support)

1.- How it works

• Members having questions, are coming to your support department. They read your Frequence Asked Questions and if they don't solve their problem, they're opening a support ticket.
• By opening a ticket, a copy is going to member, and a notification is going to technicians.
• Technician reply to the question, eighter using a predefinied reply, or writing a fresh reply.
• Technician has the ability to save his reply to predefinied ones, or, if he counts it as common question to add it to as many FAQ categories he wants.
• Member gets the reply, and if he is not totally satisfied, he visits your site to continue the discussion and so on.
• Member and/or Technician can close a ticket
• Member and/or Technician can re-open a ticket

2.- Frontend Features

• Open a Ticket
• My Tickets
• F.A.Q listing
• Live Support
  
• Information Blocks:
  • Latest Questions
  • Important Questions

3.- Technician Features

• Support Tickets List, which can be filtered by:
  • Department
  • Product
  • Status
• Actions for each ticket:
  • Reply
  • Close
  • Re-open
• Actions when replying to a ticket:
  • Select to include a predefinied reply
  • Save reply in predefinied replies
  • Save reply in as many FAQ categories he wants.
• Predefinied Replies (Add, Edit, Delete).
• Add Question to F.A.Q
• List F.A.Q

4.- Administrator Features

• Unlimited depth level of categories for F.A.Q
• Extra Fields
  • Text
  • Radio Button
  • Checkboxes
  • Droplist
  • Textarea
• Departments. Per each department he can assign an unlimited amount of email addresses, which they will be inform when a new ticket is creating for this department, or when a reply comes from the Members.
• Products
• Can turn use of Departments On/Off
• Can turn use of Products On/Off
• Setup the text for the email to Member, upon new ticket creation
• Setup the text for the email to Member, upon a new reply from technician
• Setup the text for the email to Member, upon ticket's auto close.
• Can setup the duration (in hours), to auto close the tickets which they dont have any action from member's side.

5.- Usergroup Permissions

• Can access the support section
• Can submit tickets
• Can attach files to ticket
• Support priority (lower number means higher priority)
• Belongs to Technicians group or not

6.- Installation

• Upload all files to your site keeping the same structure.
• CMOD 777 directories:
  • microsupport/attachments
• Imprort product-microsupport.xml from your admincp
• Setup Usergroup permissions
• Setup General Options
• Setup Live Support Config
• Setup Spam Settings
  

7.- Copyright

• Removing my copyright link from the page's footer is illegal. This module is a copyrighted work of Totally-scripts.comi (aka micheal332001).

Also Many thanks to Maria for letting me take over her add-on aka MicroHellas

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Change Log

27th Nov 2010

• Live Support Added
• Live Support Mini Block Added

3rd Dec 2010

• Live Support System Settings
  
  
  • No Advisers Online Message
  Place the message you want to show your members when there our no advisers online
  • Advisers Busy Message
  Place the message you want your members to see when your advisers are busy.
  • Aviser Online Image
  Place the image name that you want to use for advisers online
  I.E. (onlineimage.png)
  Place the image within the folder ( microsupport/images/ )
  • Adviser Off Line Image
  Place the off line image name here I.E (offline.png)
  Place the image within the folder ( microsupport/images/ )
  • Adviser Busy Image
  Place the image you want to use for advisers busy status. I.E (inchat.png)
  Place the image within the folder ( microsupport/images/ )
  • Live Support Welcome Message
  Place your welcome message here that members will see once they have logged into the live support system.
  • Live Support Login Message
  Place the login message you want to show your members here.
  • Live Support Image Size
  This is the size of the live support images within the main swf file.
  • Login/Welcome Text Colour
  What colour would you like the login/welcome text to be when viewing the live support system.
  • Live Support Mouse Over Colour
  What colour would you like to use for the mouse over colour of users online.
  Please place the code like this ( FF0033 ) without the #
  • Live Support Mouse Down Colour
  What colour would you like to use for the mouse down colour of users online.
  Please place the code like this ( FF0033 ) without the #
  • Live Support Mouse Up Colour
  What colour would you like to use for the mouse up colour of users online.
  Please place the code like this ( FF0033 ) without the #
  • Live Support Online Users Text
  Place the text for the online users list.

9th Dec 2010

Added Live Support forum side block within the install.

23rd Jan 2011

Added within the live support swf the ability to log members out as requested.

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Fixed
Fixed the problem with the quote marks

Added live support image to top of support page See screen shot
Fixed the ' errors within the faq's and Predefinied Reply
Added 2 new templates
These templates what the user that the live support is on or off line and if all advisers are busy.

28th Feb 2011

Fixed a problem with some styles as they were moving the headers and blocks to one side.

Upgrade for this is to just re-import the product.xml file with overwrite set to yes


This will only work with vbulletin version 4.0.x but not for vbulletin version 4.1.x

[MelH]

Originally Posted by micheal332001

This could be added without a problem but i dont think it would look very good.

I understand what you mean about large numbers of categories and questions but I only have eight categories with about 4 questions in each so for me it would be ideal to show all the categories all the time.

So if it can be added without a problem can you please tell me how to do it?

[GoHighVoltage]

Upgraded to VB 4.1.1 I notice in Firefox that when in the Help Desk Screen the "Live Agent status" In the upper right of header is halfway down under the search bar.

And in Explorer, it is a huge blank header on top of the header. all messed up.

Any fixes? Or is there a way to eliminate it from the header?

Also, in the Forum Blocks Manager, it shows the Support Live Chat, but not matter what the setting, it will not show in the side block.

PS: I have uninstalled and installed the latest version as well. No Luck.

[GoHighVoltage]

Originally Posted by GoHighVoltage

Upgraded to VB 4.1.1 I notice in Firefox that when in the Help Desk Screen the "Live Agent status" In the upper right of header is halfway down under the search bar.

And in Explorer, it is a huge blank header on top of the header. all messed up.

Any fixes? Or is there a way to eliminate it from the header?

Also, in the Forum Blocks Manager, it shows the Support Live Chat, but not matter what the setting, it will not show in the side block.

PS: I have uninstalled and installed the latest version as well. No Luck.

Ok, It is a problem with your latest xml installer. I uninstalled and used the version from 12/9/10, and everything works fine.

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by GoHighVoltage

Upgraded to VB 4.1.1 I notice in Firefox that when in the Help Desk Screen the "Live Agent status" In the upper right of header is halfway down under the search bar.

And in Explorer, it is a huge blank header on top of the header. all messed up.

Any fixes? Or is there a way to eliminate it from the header?

Also, in the Forum Blocks Manager, it shows the Support Live Chat, but not matter what the setting, it will not show in the side block.

PS: I have uninstalled and installed the latest version as well. No Luck.

Originally Posted by GoHighVoltage

Ok, It is a problem with your latest xml installer. I uninstalled and used the version from 12/9/10, and everything works fine.

This will be changed within the next release as im adding in a floating block.

[Welshy2008]

Michael,

would it be possible to change the screen on support.php to:



Please.


I think the text and the image is clearer, easier to understand and looks a whole lot better.


many Thanks,
Welshy2008.

[Datenpapst]

Is there any chance to get the *.fla files for the flash files to change their design and appearance?

[Datenpapst]

And there is the problem for 4.1.1. where I cant submit a ticket.

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by Welshy2008

Michael,

would it be possible to change the screen on support.php to:


Please.


I think the text and the image is clearer, easier to understand and looks a whole lot better.


many Thanks,
Welshy2008.

Yes this can be made to be an option within the support system.
Ill sort it out for next release.

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

Is there any chance to get the *.fla files for the flash files to change their design and appearance?

The fla files will not be released at all.
Sorry for this.

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

And there is the problem for 4.1.1. where I cant submit a ticket.

This problem you are talking about is fixed within the new version 4.6.4.
Versions 4.1.1 and upto 4.6.0 are not supported any more as its not version 4.6.4

[Datenpapst]

I just installed the whole thing and I still got a problem. 4.1.1. is the vbulletin version though