Enhanced Automation Capabilities in Ticketing as a Service for Microsoft Teams
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Ticket automation lets you set rules that act on your tickets by themselves, so your team spends less time on repetitive admin and more time resolving issues. In Ticketing as a Service, you now automate across your whole workflow: when a ticket is created, when it enters or leaves a status, and when a transition runs.
Each automation works the same way. You set the conditions that a ticket must meet, then choose the actions to run when those conditions match. Actions cover the tasks your agents repeat every day: assigning tickets to team members, sending notifications, and updating fields.
Ticket automation is available on the Professional and Leader plans.
How ticket automation works
Every automation is built from rules, and every rule has two parts: conditions and actions. Conditions decide when a rule applies, such as a priority, a tag, or a date field. Actions decide what happens when the rule matches.
You build rules directly on your workflow, so the automation sits next to the stage it belongs to. A rule table lets you:
Add one or more conditions per rule, for example a priority set to Urgent.
Add one or more actions, such as assigning the ticket to a specific agent.
Set an Otherwise rule to handle every ticket that no other rule matched.
Turn on Stop processing more rules when a match should end the sequence.
Where automation runs across your workflow
Automation now runs at every stage of the ticket lifecycle, from creation through to resolution. You attach rules to the exact points where work happens, so each ticket is handled the right way. There are three places to automate:
Ticket Creation: rules run the moment a ticket is created, so you can route and enrich it before anyone opens it. For example, assign every Urgent ticket to a senior agent, apply a label, or notify a channel when a request arrives.
Enter or Exit Status: rules run as a ticket reaches or leaves a status, and you set both from the same status panel. Use On Entry to assign work or notify an owner when a ticket lands in a stage, and On Exit to update a field or send a notification as it moves on.
Transition: rules run whenever a specific transition is used, so you can tie actions to an exact move between two statuses, such as reopening a ticket that failed testing.
A gear icon marks any stage that already has automation set. On a status, its position shows what is active: left for entry, right for exit, or both.
Rule example
Every rule pairs a condition with an action, and building one takes two steps:
Define the condition: identify the criteria that trigger the rule, for example when a ticket is marked as Urgent.
Specify the action: choose what happens when the condition is met, for example assigning the ticket to a specific team member.
A simple rule looks like this:
Condition: Priority set to Urgent
Action: Assign the ticket to a specific team member
Any ticket marked Urgent is then assigned automatically, so high-priority issues reach the right person straight away.
Ways to use ticket automation
The same conditions and actions cover a wide range of scenarios. Here are three common setups:
Email-to-ticket rules
Ticketing as a Service can create rules based on the email sender, title, and body. This helps when tickets are created from incoming emails, so you can assign each request to the right team member based on its content.
Date field conditions and actions
You can use relative dates and specific dates in both conditions and actions:
As a condition: if the expected relative date is less than 2 days, set the ticket priority to Urgent. This prioritizes tickets that need immediate attention. Example: if expected relative date < 2, set priority to Urgent.
As an action: if the ticket priority is set to Urgent, adjust the expected relative date to 2 days. This gives urgent tickets a clear timeline. Example: if priority = Urgent, set expected relative date to 2.
Tag conditions: Any of vs All
You can trigger rules based on whether a ticket has any of a set of tags or all of a set of tags:
Any of: triggers the action if a ticket has any one of the specified tags. Example: if any of [Tag1, Tag2, Tag3], then run the action.
All: triggers the action only if a ticket has all the specified tags. Example: if all of [Tag1, Tag2, Tag3], then run the action.
How to set it up
Open your workflow, then click the stage you want to automate: the creation step, a status, or a transition. Enable automation for that stage, add your rules with conditions and actions, and save. The gear icon confirms the automation is active.
What ticket automation improves
Automation removes the manual steps that slow your team down and keeps ticket handling consistent. The main gains are:
Less manual work: routine assignment, tagging, and updates run without an agent touching them.
Consistent handling: every ticket that meets the same conditions is treated the same way.
Faster response: urgent tickets reach the right person as soon as they appear.
Clearer communication: the right people are notified at the right stage.
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