You can establish task dependencies with successor and predecessor links. Dependencies define relationships among tasks that determine their order. Predecessors identify tasks that must be completed before their successor task can be started. Using predecessor and successor relationships can help you improve project scheduling and allows you to determine how to shorten the critical path of the projects you are working on.

Now you can get OneDesk to automatically create an item for you as a result of an automation.

Services and requests are two concepts that go closely hand in hand. Even for internal requests, once a service is requested, there is a certain level of agreement that must happen between the two parties involved. This is often handled via terms and contracts, but these can be easy to mismanage or lose sight of. In most software used for managing work, these aspects are not captured or part of the workflow.

Balancing all of a company’s various business needs can be difficult and often results in using a number of different solutions to get the job done. So often these days, a lot of software focuses on fulfilling one specific need, and doing it really well. While this is great in providing consumers with good quality services, it also results in complicated workflows that see users going between multiple products in order to complete a single project.

In comparing different helpdesk tools and software, there are a number of similarities that start to surface. For one, the concept of a ticketing system overwhelmingly serves as the backbone for such tools. Oftentimes, companies that provide this service focus on building out their helpdesk tool to follow the standard flow of work: a request comes in as a ticket, work begins, and then the work is completed.

For managed service providers (MSP), customer support is absolutely core to their business. Where the various services provided may be the main customer-facing offering, without a supporting team to attend to client needs and answer questions, an MSP is sure to face challenges retaining clients. Empowering your customer support team only further serves your business, and one simple way to do that is by introducing a helpdesk and ticketing system.

The June 2021 Release of OneDesk introduces a new App (in Beta) to centralize statistics about your tickets, tasks, and projects. We call this new app ‘Analytics’. Located under the ‘More Applications’ icon in the lower-left corner, the Analytics app brings together Reports and Activities, and introduces a new section called ‘Charts’. Here are some highlights of the new Charts app.

If you’re unable to locate an item in OneDesk, it might be for one of many reasons: you are looking at a filtered view, the item is an archived project, the item has been moved to a project to which you have no access, etc. If you’re attempting to locate an item in OneDesk, try the following.

Although large companies generally gain stability in surviving growing pains, they face different challenges in managing their work across a large workforce. It is normal to see such companies divided into different departments, which then are made up of smaller teams. These smaller teams may each have their own lead or manager or, as is often the case, they may share leads or managers with other teams.

OneDesk makes optimizing your project schedule easy with ‘smart rescheduling’. In only a few clicks, this powerful tool can optimize the work schedule of your projects, allowing you to save time and reduce the overall duration of your projects. Smart rescheduling will take into account the project’s start date, any finish-to-start links between tasks, and any date constraints you have set, unless you specify otherwise.