Automatic Incident Closure Requirements

To enable this feature ensure that the Enable Automatic Incident Status Update checkbox is selected.

 

In order to qualify for automatic closure, Incidents must meet the following criteria:

 

·      The Incident must have been logged by a user of the Self Service Portal. Incidents logged in this way will have Web as the entry for the Logged By field.

 

·      The primary association for the Incident must be the Self Service Portal user that logged it.

 

·      The Incident must have at least one Incident Action.

 

·      The Incident Status must be one of the Statuses selected in the Statuses to automatically close list.

 

·      The user-defined time period must have passed since the date and time of last Incident Action and Incident Log entry.

 

 

Note:

Automatic Incident closures are processed by the SupportDesk Escalation Service which must be running in order use this feature.