Getting Started

  • How Plumsail HelpDesk works
  • HelpDesk installation
  • Quick HelpDesk configuration
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Resources

Configuration guide

  • Email settings
  • Triggers
  • Web widget
  • Tab for Microsoft Teams
  • Customize widget forms
  • Customize ticket and contact forms
  • Customer satisfaction survey (CSAT)
  • Scheduling of tasks and reminders
  • Business hours and holidays
  • SLA policy
  • Localization
  • Appearance settings
  • Color theme
  • Customize ticket statuses
  • Reports customization
  • Ticket numbering customization
  • Update HelpDesk
  • Uninstall HelpDesk

User guide

  • Home page
  • Ticket management
  • Ticket search
    • Start the search
    • Search options
      • HelpDesk sites
      • Last updated
      • Custom range
  • Knowledge base
  • All tickets
  • Contacts
  • My contact
  • Reports
  • Canned responses
  • Ticket merging
  • Ticket splitting
  • SLA policies

General

  • Version history
  • Data protection and security
  • Data center location
  • Licensing details
  • Billing and subscription management
  • Support plans
  • Status page

Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) and Public API

  • Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) connector
  • Public REST API

How to

  • Notifications
  • Automations
  • SLA
  • Ticket management
  • Custom forms, charts and views
  • Advanced
Documentation › User guide › Ticket search

Ticket search

Plumsail HelpDesk has a search function that allows users to quickly find tickets within the helpdesk database.

  • Start the search

  • Search options

    • HelpDesk sites

    • Last updated

    • Custom range

Start the search

To start the search, type your request in the search field:

Search field

HelpDesk shows matching tickets with a short summary for each.

Search result

If you provide a Ticket ID and press Enter, you will be navigated to this ticket right away.

This is the information presented in the search result:

  • HelpDesk name at the top

  • Ticket title

  • Ticket ID

  • Status

  • Last modified date

  • People participating in the ticket - Requester, Assignee, CCs

Search result fields

Search options

These options help refine your search results and make it more effective.

HelpDesk sites

In case you have multiple HelpDesk sites, there is the option to specify which sites to use for the search request.

By default, the search includes all available HelpDesks within the SharePoint domain.

HelpDesk sites

Note

The search function works only for users with sufficient permissions to access the sites.

See our manage permissions documentation.

Last updated

You can define a specific time range for the search.

Last updated option

Custom range

The Custom range feature allows you to define the beginning and ending dates for the search interval.

Click on the calendar buttons to select the dates.

Custom range