Jitbit Helpdesk - Option to save the reply/message (as a draft) for later editing and sending. : Ideas forum

Implemented Suggested 1/27/2019 by Andreas

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Option to save the reply/message (as a draft) for later editing and sending.

For an example if technician has written the reply (message) and cannot send the reply for any reason and has to wait before sending the reply then it would be very useful to have an option to save the written reply/message (as a draft). After saving the reply as a draft the technician can go and work with other tickets without losing the already written reply. And when the technician is ready to send the earlier saved reply (draft) then the technician can just return to the ticket where the saved reply draft is waiting and if needed then edit the reply draft and then send the reply to client/customer.

I know that the helpdesk has a autosave functionality for the reply but the autosave is not bulletproof option to save reply as a draft for later editing and sending.

Alex Tech

Actually, if you close the windows with an unsent reply, the draft is saved there automatically, and will be pre-filled next time you open that ticket.

1/27/2019 8:38 AM

Andreas

Dear Alex, thank You for Your prompt comments.
Unfortunately the automatically saved draft disappears after some time.
For an example, I can see the automatically saved draft after it is saved. Then I sign out from the helpdesk. After some while (10 minutes) I log in to the helpdesk and open the ticket and the automatically saved draft has disappeared (deleted).

It would be very useful and great to have a way to save the reply (draft) and to be 100% sure that the reply is saved. And will be there if the ticket is opened next time.

1/27/2019 10:37 AM

Alex Tech

We've introduced some fixes with the draft-saving engine to fix the mentioned errors.

It's worth mentioning though, draft-saving happens in browser's localStorage object, so logging in from a new device won't show the saved items.

4/30/2019 11:39 AM