CSM integration with IT Service Management overview
Customer Service Management provides an integration with the Incident, Problem, Change, and Request Management applications.
Plugins
- Customer Service with Service Management plugin (com.sn_cs_sm)
- Customer Service with Request Management plugin (com.sn_cs_sm_request)
Roles
The Service Management integration plugins do not add any roles to the customer service agent (sn_customerservice_agent) role. To enable the Service Management integration features, you must assign the CSM/ITSM integration roles included with the Incident Management application to the agents who need this capability. For more information, see Assign CSM/ITSM integration roles.
Creating records for a case
- Create Incident
- Create Problem
- Create Request
- Create Normal Change
- Create Standard Change
Viewing incident, problem, and change records related to a case
- Incident
- Problem
- Change Request
- Caused by Change
Viewing requests related to a case
Related records list widget for external customers
When viewing a case on the Customer or Consumer Service Portal, external users can see other records that are associated with the case in the Related Records list widget. These records can include problems, changes, and requests. Users can click a record in the Related Records widget to view additional details in a pop-up window.
- Clicking My Lists in the portal menu header.
- Clicking in the portal menu header.
Using case resolution codes
The Service Management integration plugins provide the following case resolution codes.
- Solved – Fixed by closing related PRB
- Solved – Workaround provided based on open PRB
- Solved – Fixed by closing related Change Request
- Solved – Fixed by closing related Incident
- Solved – Related Request is Closed Complete
IT Service Management integration and Major Issue Management
- A major issue manager with the itil role can create incident, problem, change, and request records from a major case.
- When a major case candidate with an associated record is accepted as a major case:
- A new major case is created and the candidate becomes a child of the major case.
- The related record information is copied from the child case to the major case.
- For the child case, the options to create related records are removed from the Additional Actions menu.
- For the child case, the fields in the Related Records form section are read-only.
- Updates to the related records appear in the work notes of the major case. These updates are added to the child case when fields are synchronized from the major case to the child case.
- A major case and child cases can have different types of related records. This can happen when an existing case with a related incident, problem, change, or request record is added as a child of a major case. When updates are made to the record related to the child case, information about the update is added to the child case work notes.
- If a major case and child cases have the same related record, updates to that record
are added to the major case work notes. These notes are copied from the major case to
the child cases if:
- The sn_customerservice.case_fields_to_sync property is enabled.
- The field in the in the Related Records form section is added to the sn_customerservice.case_fields_to_sync property.
- If a major case and child cases have different related records of the same type, updates to the records are copied only to the respective cases.