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Freshdesk

Manage support tickets, contacts, agents, and knowledge base

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Written by Johan Åkerman

Introduction

Connect Freshdesk to Sana to manage your support tickets, contacts, agents, and knowledge base. Create, update, and track tickets, assign to agents, manage solution articles, and streamline your customer support workflow. In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

  • Category: Support

  • Connector type: Real-time

  • Auth type: API keys

  • Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

Create tickets

Create messages

Create solution articles

Create contacts

Create companies

Create agents

Update tickets

Update solution articles

Update agents

List articles

List messages

List solution articles

List contacts

List tickets

List folders

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Freshdesk. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Add note to ticket

Add ticket tags

Assign ticket to agent

Assign ticket to group

Close ticket

Create agent

Create company

Create contact

Create message for thread

Create reply

Create solution article

Create thread

Create ticket

Create ticket field

Delete solution article

Download attachment

Forward ticket

Get agent

Get canned response

Get contact

Get folder canned responses

Get solution article

Get ticket

List agents

List all folders

List all tickets

List category folders

List folder articles

List folder canned responses

List solution categories

List ticket conversations

List ticket fields

Remove ticket tags

Reply to forward

Search solution article

Set ticket priority

Set ticket status

Set ticket tags

Update agent

Update contact

Update solution article

Update ticket

Update ticket field

Scope and permissions

This connector uses API keys. When you connect your account, we securely store your keys to connect to this connector's APIs. The scopes for this connector depends on the scopes you assign your API key in Freshdesk when generating the key.

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

  • Your Sana workspace admin has enabled this integration – if the workspace admin has disabled the integration it won't appear in the list of available integrations.

Step 1: Go to the integrations page in Sana

In Sana, click on ... More in the sidebar, then select Integrations

Step 2: Find Freshdesk in the list of available integrations

Scroll to the Available integrations section and locate Freshdesk.

Step 3: Connect the integration

Click the integration card and select "Connect just for me", this will open a pop-up powered by Pipedream. Follow the steps in the pop-up to complete the set-up.

Step 4: Provide your Freshdesk credentials

You'll be asked to paste the credentials for Freshdesk so Sana can store them securely and use them to call the connector's APIs on your behalf.

Step 5: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Freshdesk account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.

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