Autotask integrations
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Written by Jos Barteling
Updated over a week ago

Adding a survey to Autotask

Simplesat allows you to create surveys that you can embed Autotask email templates.


Authenticating with Autotask

Before activating an integration you'll first need to authenticate with Autotask.

To do this, you'll first need to create an API user in Autotask:

  1. In Autotask, navigate to the menu bar by hovering over the menu button at the top left of the page. Then, hover over Admin and select Account Settings & Users tab.

  2. Expand the Resources/Users(HR) section and select Resources/Users.

  3. Hover over the New button and select New API User.

  4. In the user creation window fill in the first name/last name/email address and set security level to API User (system).

  5. Scroll down and generate a username and password.

  6. Select Simplesat as the integration vendor.

Be sure to keep the username and password as they're need later.

Then press the save & close button.

Click authenticate and fill in the username and password which you've just created.

At region fill in the URL from this table which matches your region.

More information about this can be found on Autotask's website here.

Once you've filled everything in click authenticate.

You're now authenticated with Autotask! 🎉


Contact sync

Simplesat can automatically sync contacts over from Autotask to Simplesat.

The first time this integration gets activated it'll sync over all users, afterwards this integration will run once per day and sync over the users that have been updated in the 24 hours prior to that.

The contacts synced to Simplesat will have the following data synced over:

Object

Field

Value

Account

Account active Status

True/False

Account

Account Type

String

Account

Classification

String

Contact

Contact Active Status

True/False

Contact

Primary Contact

True/False

Contact

Survey Opt Out Status

True/False

Here's an example of how this will look in Simplesat:

Scroll down to contact sync and click activate integration.


Pull ticket details

Each time your customer provides a rating, Simplesat will associate the following information with the response.

Object

Data collected

Ticket

ID, Subject, Priority, Category, Number

Requester (Customer)

ID, Name, Email, Company

Responder (Assignee)

ID, Name, Email

All information gathered through the API will override fields sent through URL parameters.

Here's an example of how this will look in Simplesat:

Scroll down to pull ticket details and click activate integration.


Add feedback to ticket as an internal note

Simplesat can sync feedback to the related ticket as an internal note.

Here's an example of how this will look in Autotask:

Next, scroll down to add feedback to ticket as an internal note and click activate integration.

Note:

For the internal note to be displayed as if created by the ticket contact your API user must have personation permissions. You can set this up by going to admin > account settings & users > resource/users (HR) > security levels, then select the security level your API user is set to. Then scroll down to the web services API section and enable ticket notes.


Display feedback in ticket custom fields

Simplesat can display feedback in the custom fields of a ticket.

Here's an example of how this will look in Autotask:

Authenticate if you haven't done so already, then scroll down to display feedback in ticket custom fields and click activate integration.

Next, scroll down a little to the field mapping table and map the values you want to your custom fields.

Once you've mapped your fields click save and you're done! 🎉


Add feedback to a contact's custom fields

Simplesat can display feedback in the custom fields of a ticket.

Here's an example of how this will look in Autotask:

Authenticate if you haven't done so already, then scroll down to add feedback to a contact's custom fields and click activate integration.

Next, scroll down a little to the field mapping table and map the values you want to your custom fields.

Once you've mapped your fields click save and you're done! 🎉


Automatically send survey on ticket closure

Simplesat can automatically send a survey by email to a ticket's contact when the related ticket has been set to completed.

To set this up you'll first need to have a survey set up as direct email delivery > event based

Configure your email, then go to the delivery tab and copy the endpoint.

Authenticate if you haven't done so already, then scroll down to automatically send survey on ticket closure and click activate integration.

Once the integration has been successfully activated, scroll down a bit to endpoint URL.
Paste the survey endpoint in the endpoint field and click save.

Note: Currently the integration triggers once on tickets that have their status set to 'Completed'. If your status is named different or if you'd like it to trigger on a different status then please contact Simplesat support to set this up for you.

Note: Responses gathered through event based surveys currently don't trigger ticket integrations. Please contact Simplesat support to enable this for your event based survey.

Note: For this integration to work your API user needs to have permissions to create webhooks in your Autotask environment. That setting can be found in Autotask under admin > account settings & users > resources & users and select your API user. Check which security level the user has, then go to admin > security > security levels and open that security level.

Then under the other section, the can create webhooks check needs to be enabled and a value needs to be filled in under the maximum number of webhooks:

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