Work on Freshdesk tickets from Slack

Bring Freshdesk tickets into Slack and empower your agents to collaborate using ClearFeed

What is the Reverse Freshdesk workflow?

• Freshdesk tickets that are started outside of Slack (via email or help center) can be brought to Slack

• ClearFeed would enable bi-directional sync of comments and status ensuring that the support team can remain on Slack first while details are captured in the Freshdesk ticket.

Setting up the Reverse Freshdesk flow

Part A: Configuring Slack and ClearFeed to support Freshdesk ticketing

1. Create a dedicated Slack channel to receive the tickets and monitor the channel using ClearFeed (learn how to monitor a channel).

   • Configure Freshdesk as the ticketing integration for the Collection to which the channel created above is added - Setup Freshdesk ticketing for a Collection

2. Create a new Slack Webhook Workflow

   1. Go to Slack Workflow Builder

   2. Create a workflow and start the workflow from a webhook

   3. Configure the variables ticket_id

   4. As a next step, select Send Messages to a channel

   5. Select the channel that we configured in Step 1

   6. Customize the message body to include mandatorily the ticket_id variable

   7. Finish and publish the workflow

Setting up the Slack webhook workflow

3. Copy the Web Request URL from the webhook workflow step once published.

4. Whitelist the Slack Webhook Workflow Bot: Go to the following page → https://web.clearfeed.app/settings/users and under Whitelist Bot, select and add the bot with the same name as the webhook workflow created previously.

Part B: Configuring Freshdesk to send tickets to Slack

1. Now go to Freshdesk Admin Center → Workflows -> Automations and add a New Rule under the Ticket Creation category.

2. Add the following condition mandatorily:

You can also add other conditions and rules, but make sure that any new ticket that is created should satisfy the rule mentioned below

3. Under the actions dropdown, select the Trigger Webhook action. Then, add the details as shown below:

   1. Request Type: POST

   2. URL: Place the Web Request URL we obtained from the Slack workflow

Freshdesk automation to send tickets to Slack channels

Once the above setup is complete, tickets outside of Slack will be delivered to your Slack channel. ClearFeed will start monitoring these tickets and establish a bidirectional sync helping your team stay in Slack and work on Freshdesk tickets.