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HappyFox agents can easily create tickets on behalf of a customer or another agent, which is extremely handy for cases where:
- A request is conveyed over a conversation and needs to be ticketed for audit purposes.
- An agent needs to create a private ticket, that should not visible to the contacts but is accessible only by the agent.
- An agent needs to create a ticket for another agent, for internal support.
Customizing this form ⚙️:
If you are the account administrator, you can customize the various component present in this form. Learn more about how to customize agent new ticket form.
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Each HappyFox agent can create a new ticket from within their agent panel. Click on the "+ New Ticket" button, located in the top bar, to load the ticket form:
If the customer has submitted tickets in the past and has a contact profile on the help desk, simply start typing his/her name or email ID for a live lookup and the system will show you the suggestions. 
You could also use the lookup based on your contact custom field values. Simply select the contact custom field from the dropdown, type in the keyword and use the autocomplete to look up based on the custom field value.
Click on the relevant contact profile to automatically populate contact specific fields such as :
- Name (of the customer)
- Email ID (of the customer)
- any contact fields you may have set up
There is also an added functionality to the new ticket form where you can directly view your Knowledge Base Articles.
This can be done by clicking the 'Browse KB' option on the top right of the new ticket form. It will slide out a pane with your KB articles as shown below. 
This feature will be immensely useful for an agent who is creating a ticket on behalf of a customer and wants to refer to some documentation before he/she does so.
For a new contact, you need to manually fill in the contact and custom field details. By default, email is a mandatory field. However, you can make it optional.
This section is visible if you have ticket templates configured in your help desk. Upon choosing the desired template, the ticket custom fields are automatically populated in the form.
Ticket info fields contain the property/information about the ticket.
| Ticket fields | What they mean |
| Category | Helps to categorize the ticket according to the different kinds of requests. |
| Priority | Shows whether the ticket is an Urgent, High, Medium or Low priority ticket. |
| Assignee | Agent who is currently assigned and working on the ticket. |
| Due date | Within which some actions are expected to be performed on the ticket. |
| CC | Recipients who are publicly informed of the communication (carbon copy). |
| BCC | Recipients who are invisible to other recipients of the communication. |
| Subject | Brief description of the ticket. |
| Message | A detailed description of the ticket. |
Every HappyFox account comes with a set of default mandatory fields (Category, Subject, Message) that are important for the functioning of your helpdesk. These fields are a part of every ticket in your helpdesk, and will be used by the agents extensively as they try to resolve issues. For this purpose, default fields cannot be removed from your ticket form. Upon choosing the category, respective ticket custom fields are also displayed.
Show/hide non-mandatory fields:
HappyFox provides the option to hide/show non-mandatory fields in the new ticket form. Click the "Hide non-mandatory fields/Show non-mandatory fields" toggle link adjacent to "Contact Details" and "Ticket Info" accordions to perform the following show/hide actions:
- Hide non-mandatory fields: Hide non-mandatory fields in ticket info / contact details.
- Show non-mandatory fields: Display non-mandatory fields in ticket info / contact details.
Inside the new ticket form, fields (both default and custom) which are marked as Mandatory/Required have a trailing * next to their field name. Ticket custom fields which are marked as "Required on Completion" have a trailing † next to their field name. Help texts for custom fields can be accessed by hovering your mouse cursor over the "Info" icon next to the field name.
On checking 'Private Ticket' box while creating the ticket, the customer will neither get notified of the ticket nor will have permissions to view it.
