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In today's fast-paced business environment, efficient customer support is essential. Streamlining the process of accessing and managing incidents is crucial for businesses looking to provide exceptional service to their customers. This is where the ServiceNow integration in Chime comes into play. In this blog post, we will explore how Chime's ServiceNow Ticket Listing Pipeline Action and JavaScript API calls can help you enhance your customer support capabilities.
ServiceNow Ticket Listing Pipeline Action
Overview
Chime's ServiceNow Ticket Listing Pipeline Action is a powerful tool that allows you to fetch open incidents for a seeker and associate an existing ServiceNow incident with the chat session. This integration simplifies the workflow for your support team, enabling them to quickly identify and address seeker requests.
Chime V5 ServiceNow Features
Before diving into the details, it's essential to enable the necessary ServiceNow features in Chime:
ChimeV5.Ticketing.ServiceNow
ChimeV5.Pipeline.ServiceNowTickets
Service-Now Instance Configuration
To get started with this integration, your tenant admin will need to specify the ServiceNow instance URL and credentials in Chime's configuration settings. This step ensures a secure connection between Chime and your ServiceNow environment.
Pipeline Configuration
The pipeline configuration is a crucial part of this integration, as it determines how incidents are managed within Chime.
Prompt: This field contains the title that will appear on the ticket listing card, providing clarity to your support team.
No Result State: Specifies the pipeline key to which the seeker should be moved if no incidents are found for the seeker, ensuring a smooth experience.
Lookup tickets using Session Meta Data Field: This field is used for searching incidents in ServiceNow, typically using the seeker's email address, making it easy to locate relevant incidents.
Next Stage: Specifies the pipeline key to which the seeker should be moved after they select and associate an incident with the session.
Options: Additional pipeline navigation options can be added to the ticketing card as needed, enhancing the user experience.
Seeker Experience
For seekers, the experience is seamless. The pipeline shows a list of open incidents, making it easy for them to select the relevant incident. Clicking on an incident option reveals essential details, including links, descriptions, and the last updated timestamp.
Associating Incident with Chat Session
Associating an incident with the chat session is a breeze. Using the option "This describes my concern," seekers can link the incident to the session, and the system will move them to the next state as specified in the pipeline configuration.
JavaScript API Calls for ServiceNow Integration
Chime V5 ServiceNow Features
Before diving into the details, it's essential to enable the necessary ServiceNow features in Chime:
ChimeV5.Pipeline.ScriptChoice
In the pipeline action, "Evaluate JavaScript," several methods are available to access ServiceNow ticketing API calls, enabling you to perform various tasks efficiently.
Script Method - getServiceNowTickets('seekerEmailAddress')
To retrieve a list of tickets, you can use the following script call:
Assign Ticket to an Agent:
These API calls return updated ticket records, ensuring that your incident management process remains efficient.
ServiceNow Create or Update Ticket Pipeline Action
Overview
The JIRA Create or Update Ticket Pipeline Action allows you to create new JIRA tickets or update existing ones. It also assigns tickets to specific advisors and pushes chat transcript to ticket records.
Chime V5 ServiceNow Features
To use Jira integration enable the following ServiceNow features:
ChimeV5.Pipeline.ServiceNowCreateTicket
Pipeline Configuration
Notify seeker incident is about to get created: Message to notify the seeker that a ticket is about to be created
Provide seeker incident details: Message to provide seeker with ticket details: ${Ticket.Number}, ${Ticket.URL}
Associate Question with specified ServiceNow Field: short_description
Associate seeker email address with specified ServiceNow Field: caller_id
Associate agent email address with specified ServiceNow Field: assigned_to
Associate chat transcript with specified ServiceNow Field: work_notes
Associate incident number with Session Meta data property: Ticket.Number
Associate incident sysId with Session Meta data property: Ticket.Id
Associate incident URL with Session Meta data property: Ticket.URL
Seeker Experience
For seekers, this pipeline action ensures a smooth experience. They are notified when an incident is about to be created or updated. They also receive ticket details, including the ticket number and URL, to access the ticket record.
Conclusion
With Chime's ServiceNow integration, you can streamline your incident management process, making it easier for your support team to address seeker requests promptly. By leveraging JavaScript API calls, you can take your customer support to the next level, providing exceptional service to your clients.
For further information on ServiceNow ticket listing and ticketing metrics, refer to the related items listed above. Explore the possibilities and enhance your customer support capabilities with Chime's ServiceNow integration today!
Related Items
To further enhance your understanding and utilization of the ticketing integration in Chime, here are some related resources:
1. Use JavaScript for accessing ServiceNow Tickets
These resources provide valuable insights into utilizing JavaScript API calls to access ServiceNow ticketing data, Microsoft Teams integration, as well as other ticketing services allowing you to unlock even more capabilities for your customer support.