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

[Mikevet1984]

What is the content to enable the live support notification in forum side block!

The one which was automattically created is faulty and has no content message in the content box.

Any help, please?

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by Mikevet1984

Hello. Michael!

I would like to ask you where is the Navbar tab template of the micro support modification so as to add an icon on it next to the phrase HelpDesk?

can be found in this template microsupport_tabmenu

Originally Posted by Mikevet1984

What is the content to enable the live support notification in forum side block!

The one which was automattically created is faulty and has no content message in the content box.

Any help, please?

Template for this is here microsupport_block_onoffline

[Mikevet1984]

Michael the content box is still empty and no side bar blocks appears.

I added manually the phrase <return $support;> as an experimen to see if this will work and now the side bar looks ok. The Live support icon appears in side bar. I think you should take a llok because the block that is created automaically is a little faulty.

Thank you!

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by Mikevet1984

Michael the content box is still empty and no side bar blocks appears.

I added manually the phrase <return $support;> as an experimen to see if this will work and now the side bar looks ok. The Live support icon appears in side bar. I think you should take a llok because the block that is created automaically is a little faulty.

Thank you!

Thankyou m8 i will take out the auto making of this block and make it one that you have to put in as that would be easyer for me to code.

[bebeko]

Not work with 4.0.3 something is missing in this version and not install correct


I was lucky a had in my HD the old version

[micheal332001]

Originally Posted by bebeko

Not work with 4.0.3 something is missing in this version and not install correct


I was lucky a had in my HD the old version

I have tryed this on 4.0 and up to the 4.1 versions and had no problem.
Please give me the errors you are getting and i can sort them out.

[bposner]

Nice mod, thanks for all that worked on it.
Question about file upload. The system allows the file to be chosen when opening a ticket, but I can't see to find the file, nor is it transferred during the email notification. This may be a VB setup option, but not sure. Directories have 777 permissions as requested.
Thank you for your time and support

SOLVED: Didn't have the allowed extension entered in the settings. - thanks

[bposner]

Couple more questions.
How do I send any attachments that are loaded in the ticket with the email send to notification email? (if possible)
How do I transfer some of the other collected data in the fields with the notification email as well. (if possible)

[Sforums]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

If this script is anything close to the support Maria gives on herer script I would not recommend ant one install this.

Very true....I had so much trouble with her mods....

[nerowolfe]

Hi. Is working good in 4.1.2 with crome, but on firefox is a tragedy!



Can you help me?