Service Bulletins

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Introduction

Service Manager provides the ability to create and publish Bulletins to the subscribers of Services.

• Bulletins can be created and managed from Service records.
• Each Service can have it's own Bulletins which are relevant to it's purpose
• Bulletins can be viewed by the subscribers of a service via both the Customer and Service Portals
• Bulletins will be visible on the Service Landing Page of the Portals, and on the Service Specific Pages on the Portal.
• Where more than one Bulletin exists either on the Same Service or Across Multiple Services, the Bulletins will be displayed in a Carousel, transitioning automatically between each Bulletin every 5 second, unless paused or manually progressed.

Creating a Bulletin

From the Service form, navigate to the Bulletin Tab, and select +Add Bulletin Item.

• Define the question for the FAQ (how it will appear on the Customer and Service Portals).
• Create the Answer for the FAQ, using the editor to:

• Format the text
• Embed images (multiple)
• Create hyperlinks

• Share links to media (Videos etc)
• Create the FAQ in multiple Languages - If your subscribed users work in multiple languages, define the FAQ in the required languages. The users will see the appropriate language FAQ on the Customer and Service portals based on the language set in their regional settings.

• By default an english version will be created

• Status

• Draft - The FAQ will not be visible on the Customer and Service Portals
• Publish - The FAQ will be visible on the Customer and Service Portals
• Retire - Once created a Retire status will be available, once in the Retire status, the FAQ will not be visible on the Customer and Service Portals

Viewing an FAQ

Subscribed users of a service, can view all the published FAQ's for a service via the Customer and Service Portals. Click through to the details of each Service to see the FAQ tab.

• The FAQ questions are presented, and the answers can be displayed by expanding the collapsed sections.

• Media content can be viewed in line
• Hyperlinks will behave as configured when added to the answer text by the FAQ creator (open in new tab etc)

• Each view of the FAQ is automatically recorded.
• Users can rate the FAQ as being being useful (Like) or not (DIslike) though the thumps up or down options.

• All ratings are recorded and are visible both on the FAQ for other users to see how their colleagues rated the FAQ, and on the FAQ tab of the Service record for the Service Owner to review

Managing FAQ's

FAQ's can be created and viewed from the FAQ tab on each service record.

• The list shows each FAQ with various attributes including:

• Status
• How many times it has been viewed
• User feedback :- Like and Dislikes
• Created date
• Last updated date

• Filter the List by Active or Retired FAQ's

• Delete FAQ's by using the multi-select option, which will reveal a Delete FAQ option
• Edit or change the status of an FAQ by clicking through into the FAQ details from the Question title link