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Incident Fields

The following fields appear on the Create New Incident and Update Incident pages:

Reported By

The user name of the person who created the incident ticket. The user name is entered automatically and cannot be edited.

Phone Number

(Optional) Enter your phone number when creating an Incident ticket. This appears in the History section of the incident record and cannot be edited.

E-mail Address

(Optional) Enter your e-mail address when creating an Incident ticket. This appears in the History section of the incident record and cannot be edited.

Priority

Specifies the priority ranking of the record to determine the amount of attention it receives. The predefined priority levels are 1 (highest) through 5 (lowest). Your system administrator or an active priority calculation can generate the appropriate Priority values for various installations and tenants. When priority calculation is enabled, this field updates based on Impact, Urgency, Affected Service, and Affected User settings. When your administrator disables priority calculation and uninstalls the urgency_on_employee option, Self Service Users see the Priority field on the Request Detail page.

Incident Area

(Optional) Indicates the general subject the incident ticket addresses. Areas provide default values that automatically appear on all incidents that are assigned to that area. Your system administrator defines incident areas for your installation, so they vary from one installation to another. Enter a value directly, or click Lookup Cross Icon to select from the defined Incident Areas.

Note: Your administrator may add custom properties to Incident Areas. If custom properties have been added, they are displayed on the Properties section of the ticket record.

Incident Description

Enter a detailed description of the reason for opening the Incident ticket. Be sure to provide enough information so the person who works on this incident can understand and resolve the ticket. This field is required.

The following fields appear on the Incident Detail page:

Open Date/Time

Indicates date and time the ticket was created.

Status

Indicates the status of the ticket within the overall processing cycle, for example Open, Work In Progress, or Closed.

Priority

Specifies the priority ranking of the record to determine the amount of attention it receives. The predefined priority levels are 1 (highest) through 5 (lowest). Your system administrator or an active priority calculation can generate the appropriate Priority values for various installations and tenants. When priority calculation is enabled, this field updates based on Impact, Urgency, Affected Service, and Affected User settings. When your administrator disables priority calculation and uninstalls the urgency_on_employee option, Self Service Users see the Priority field on the Request Detail page.

Incident Area

Indicates the general subject the ticket addresses (for example, Software.PC.Install).

Incident Description

Explains in detail what the ticket is intended to accomplish.

Properties

Displays any custom properties your administrator may have added to the incident area associated with the ticket. The Example field displays explanatory text your administrator provides about each property.

History

Displays a log of all activities that have been performed on the ticket.

Attachments

Provides a list of links to any documents or web sites that have been attached to the ticket.