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Freshdesk Integration Setup Guide for Teams
Freshdesk Integration Setup Guide for Teams

Route emails in Freshdesk to your Experts with Chatdesk Teams

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Written by Team Chatdesk
Updated over 4 months ago

This guide will walk you through the steps to setup Freshdesk as a new channel with Chatdesk Teams.

1. Login into the Freshdesk account


2. Navigate to Profile Settings and copy the api key 


3. On Teams Freshdesk page, paste the API Key copied from Freshdesk Admin 


4. Enter subdomain (e.g “chatdesk” for chatdesk.freshdesk.com)

5. Copy the webhook URL provided by Chatdesk


6. From Freshdesk Settings, under "Helpdesk Productivity", select "Automations". Under Ticket Creation, select "New Rule" with the following values

Rule name - Chatdesk Teams Rule Ticket Creation


With these properties

In Tickets Created During Business Hours

OR

In Tickets Created During Non-Business Hours

OR

In Tickets Created During Holidays

Perform these actions

Trigger webhook

Request type - POST

URL - Enter the Webhook URL copied from Step #5

Encoding - JSON

Content - Advanced

Copy this JSON into the input field

{

"ticket_id": {{ticket.id}},

"helpdesk_name": "{{helpdesk_name}}",

"ticket_url": "{{ticket.url}}"

}

Click "Preview and Save"

7. From Freshdesk Settings, under "Helpdesk Productivity", select "Automations". Under Ticket Updates, select "New Rule" with the following values

Rule name - Chatdesk Teams Rule Ticket Updates

When action performed by - Agent or Requester

Involves any of these events - Ticket is Updated

Perform these actions

Trigger webhook

Request type - POST

URL - Enter the Webhook URL copied from Step #5

Encoding - JSON

Content - Advanced

Copy this JSON into the input field

{

"ticket_id": {{ticket.id}},

"helpdesk_name": "{{helpdesk_name}}",

"ticket_url": "{{ticket.url}}"

}

Click "Preview and Save"

Your Freshdesk account is now linked with Chatdesk Teams!


If you have any further questions regarding the setup process, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. You can book a time slot here to meet with our customer success team to get your questions answered.

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