What does the integration offer?

Compass has a powerful two-way integration with Freshdesk. Use the Freshdesk integration to automatically convert Freshdesk tickets to Compass alerts and sync, allowing you to benefit from Compass's rich alert notification system, escalations, and on-call rotations.

This document describes the basic functionality of the integration, how to configure it, and details of the data exchanged between Compass and Freshdesk.

How does the integration work?

Set up the integration

Freshdesk is a bidirectional integration. Setting it up involves the following steps:

Add a Freshdesk integration

Bidirectional integrations aren’t supported in the Standard plan. All the other integrations are supported at a team level in Standard.

If you're using the Standard plan in Compass, you can add this integration only from your team’s operations page. Adding an integration from your team’s operations page makes your team the owner of the integration. This means Compass only assigns the alerts received through this integration to your team.

To add a Freshdesk integration in Compass:

  1. Go to Settings > Integrations.

  2. Select Add integration.

  3. Run a search and select “Freshdesk”.

  4. On the next screen, enter a name for the integration.

  5. Optional: Select a team in Assignee team if you want a specific team to receive alerts from the integration.

  6. Select Continue.
    The integration is saved at this point.

  7. Expand the Steps to configure the integration section and copy the API key.
    You will use this key while configuring the integration in Freshdesk later.

  8. Select Turn on integration.
    The rules you create for the integration will work only if you turn on the integration.

Configure the integration in Freshdesk

To configure the integration of Freshdesk with Compass, complete the following steps:

Add rules for creating tickets

  1. Go to Admin > Automations.

  2. Select Create the first rule on the Ticket Creation page.

  3. Select Perform Actions > Trigger Webhook from the menu.

  4. Paste the API URL copied previously into URL.

  5. Select “POST” for Request type, “JSON” for Encoding, and “Simple” for Content.

  6. Enable all fields under Content.

  7. Select Save.

Add rules for updating tickets

  1. From Admin > Automations screen, select add rule for Ticket Update.

    1. Set rule's name as Compass Add Note Or Close Or Re-open.

    2. In "When Any of these events occur" populate following conditions with the given order:

      1. "Status Is Changed" From "Closed" To "Any Status" (For reopened tickets' notifications)

      2. "Status Is Changed" From "Any Status" To "Close" (For closed ticket's notifications)

      3. "Status Is Changed" From "Resolved" To "Any Status" (For reopened tickets' notifications)

      4. "Status Is Changed" From "Any Status" To "Resolved" (For resolved ticket's notifications)

      5. "Note is Added" Type "Any" (For Private and Public note notifications)

    3. In actions section, choose Trigger Webhook from the drop-down.

    4. Paste the integration URL to URL field.

    5. Set POST as request type, Encoding JSON and content Simple.

    6. Enable all fields in the content field.

    7. Select Save.

From Compass to Freshdesk (Optional)

Compass allows customers to define action mappings between Compass actions and Freshdesk actions.

For alerts created by Freshdesk

Use the instructions in this section to map Compass actions to Freshdesk actions when the source of the alert is Freshdesk (that is, when the alert is created by Freshdesk integration).

Sample payload sent from Freshdesk to Compass

JSON

{
    "freshdesk_webhook": {
        "ticket_id": 2,
        "ticket_subject": "test subject",
        "ticket_description": "test deskripsiyon",
        "ticket_url": "https://opsgenie.freshdesk.com/helpdesk/tickets/2",
        "ticket_portal_url": "https://opsgenie.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/2",
        "ticket_due_by_time": "March 23 2016 at 10:06 AM",
        "ticket_tags": "tag1, tag2",
        "ticket_latest_public_comment": "pablik",
        "ticket_latest_private_comment": null,
        "ticket_group_name": "Product Management",
        "ticket_agent_name": "eycint",
        "ticket_agent_email": "agent1@asd.com",
        "ticket_satisfaction_survey": "test data",
        "ticket_status": "Open",
        "ticket_priority": "Medium",
        "ticket_source": "Phone",
        "ticket_type": "Incident",
        "ticket_requester_name": "halit okumus",
        "ticket_requester_firstname": "halit",
        "ticket_requester_lastname": "okumus",
        "ticket_requester_email": "halit@opsgenie.com",
        "ticket_requester_phone": "1222",
        "ticket_requester_address": "adres",
        "ticket_company_name": "OpsGenie",
        "ticket_company_description": "compa desc",
        "ticket_company_note": "compnot",
        "ticket_company_domains": null,
        "helpdesk_name": "opsgenie",
        "ticket_portal_name": "opsgenie",
        "ticket_product_description": "",
        "triggered_event": "{ticket_action:created}"
    }
}