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Managing Surveys
Updated
by Niamh Ferns
See our Surveys document for more!
Surveys Overview
So you can better check-in on the quality of your service directly with customers, DeskDirector provides a simple built-in survey feature that can either be integrated into the ticket life cycle, used to gauge customer's overall satisfaction with the service interaction once a ticket is closed, or can be initiated via an email broadcast. Survey's come in two main flavors.
Ticket Surveys
Ticket surveys are used for gathering customers' feedback after a ticket is closed. This works on top of the ticket closed email event and can be accessed this via the Admin portal under Survey
> Ticket Surveys
.

If you are not using DeskDirector's email events, the survey link can be added into your PSA's email template via a portal deep link.
Default Survey
This is the global control that enables/disables ticket surveys. If this is enabled, ticket surveys are enabled for all the boards in your DeskDirector instance. By default, you will be presented with this page when visiting the default survey. Changes to the question will not be saved unless the default survey is enabled.

The "Alert Receivers" section will let you specify email addresses that receive a notification once a negative review is created. Both the question and the receivers can be updated at any time.
Queue/Board-specific Surveys
The board-specific survey settings will override the default survey settings. This means that you can use different survey questions on each board/queue or set a different alert receiver for each board/queue.
Custom Surveys
While ticket surveys can be tied to the ticket close event, customer surveys on the other hand can be added into an email broadcast. While ticket surveys can only have 1 question, custom surveys can have a maximum of 5, allowing for a combination of CSAT and NPS questions.
Once the custom survey is created, it can be tied into an email broadcast by setting it as the broadcast's custom email template
Creating Surveys
Both survey types follow the same steps to create and only differ on the number of questions that can be added per survey.
Ticket Surveys are limited to only 1 question, while Custom Surveys can have up to 5 questions. Ticket Surveys and Custom Surveys can be easily created/survey from the Survey tab in the admin portal. Technicians with the correct permissions can also update surveys from the Tech Portal.

By default, there is an existing survey CSAT question that applies to the default survey and to the boards/queue-specific surveys. You can keep the question as is, or you can update it to whatever question you want to ask your customers.

The "Alert Receivers" section is where you can specify email addresses that will receive a notification once a negative review is created. Both the question and the receivers can be updated any time.
Integrating Survey's into Email Templates
The default DeskDirector system email template already contains logic to display a survey button to the email sent when a ticket is closed (this is assuming ticket survey is activated for the board). This means that if you are using the system email template on your board's ticket closed notification event, no change is needed from your end.
"How do we know if we are using the system template for the ticket closed event of a board?"
You can easily identify this from the admin console, via Email
> Notification Events
> Ticket Board Events
then select the board you want to check and look for the Ticket Closed section. An event using the system email template will look like this:

An event using a custom email template will look like this:

For Ticket Closed events that use a custom template, surveys must be manually integrated into your template code.
"How do we integrate surveys into our custom email templates?"
DeskDirector email template utilizes both MJML markup language and the Liquid template engine to allow users to easily program in dynamic email content. This also makes it easy to integrate surveys into your custom email templates.
To get started, you can read these articles to give you an idea of how our templates work:
The logic for the ticket surveys can called via the Survey tag. e.g.
<mj-raw>
{% if Survey %}
</mj-raw>
<mj-text font-size="14px" line-height="1.5">
Your feedback helps us improve the process where needed, and recognize those doing a great job. I know you are busy but, if you can, please take a moment and fill out this survey for us:
</mj-text>
<mj-raw>
{% endif %}
</mj-raw>
This code snippet will check if Surveys are enabled for the board where this email template is assigned to. If yes, it will display the block of text. Here's a sample code snippet adding a "Take the Survey" button into the email template:
<mj-raw>
{% if Survey %}
</mj-raw>
<mj-column>
<mj-button font-family="Helvetica" background-color="#2e86ab" color="white" font-size="16px" font-weight="bold" href="{{ Survey.Link }}" target="_blank">
Take the Survey
</mj-button>
</mj-column>
<mj-raw>
{% endif %}
</mj-raw>
"What if I am not using the Ticket Closed event but want to use a Ticket Survey?"
If you are not using DeskDirector email events, the survey link can be added into your PSA's email template via a portal deep link.
Survey deeplinking can be referenced via &action=survey
appended to a deeplink for a related ticket.
https://[your-hostname].deskdirector.com/portal/deeplink?name=ticket&ticket_id=1713798&action=survey
Frequently asked questions:
"I checked 'Surveys' tab in the admin console but I can't see my surveys. Why?"
Surveys are only available for customers on Legacy and Dynamic Plans.
- "Can I have more than 1 survey question on a ticket survey?"Only one question is allowed per ticket survey on every board. If you want to send out surveys with multiple questions, use "Custom Surveys".
- "Can I enable ticket surveys on a specific board(s), and disabled on others?"Yes! Just disable "Default Survey" and that will disable surveys for every boards/queues under your instance. Then, just enable surveys for the specific boards you want it activated on.
Tutorials
Creating a Default Survey
20 STEPS
1. Open DeskDirector Admin Portal and click the Survey icon.
2. Default surveys are sent for all tickets when they are closed. Click Default Survey to open it.
3. If there are any surveys already submitted by users, you can view them here.
4. To change the period for survey results, click the drop-down toggle control.
5. Select the time frame for which you wish to view the survey results.
6. You can see the survey results in this grid.
7. To export the survey results, click on the three-dot menu.
8. You can export as Power B.I or Excel files. Click Export for Excel.
9. The exported Excel file contains the data from the surveys.
10. To modify the default survey, turn on the toggle switch.
11. To activate the default survey, turn on the first toggle switch.
12. A default first question is provided for you. To add more questions, click Add Question.
13. You can add two types of questions - CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) or NPS (Net Promoter Score). Click Add CSAT question.
14. Type the Question you want to add.
15. To allow or disallow the user to add comments, click the comment toggle switch.
16. You can add email accounts to receive notifications when a negative review is submitted. To do this, click Add Email.
17. Type the email address.
18. Finally, click Save to save the changes.
19. Go back to the default survey to see your changes.
20. That's it. You're done.
Creating a Custom Survey
31 STEPS
1. Open DeskDirector Admin Portal and click the Survey icon.
2. Click Custom Surveys.
3. Click New to add a new survey.
4. Type the name for your survey.
5. To add any tag to this survey, click Add Tag.
6. Then, select the tag you want to add.
7. Click Create Survey.
8. Click the Enable toggle switch to enable this survey.
9. To add questions, click Add Question.
10. You can add two types of questions - CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) or NPS (Net Promoter Score). Click Add CSAT question.
11. Type your question.
12. To allow or disallow the user to add comments, click the comment toggle switch.
13. You can add email accounts to receive notifications when a negative review is submitted. To do this, click Add Email.
14. Type the email address.
15. Click Save to save the survey.
16. We can send this survey to users by sending a broadcast message. Click the Tech icon to open the Tech Portal.
17. Click Broadcasts.
18. Click Create.
19. Type the name for your message.
20. Click Next.
21. Click Send broadcast email to notify users.
22. Click the select survey box under the Custom Survey field.
23. Click the name of the custom survey you created.
24. Click Next.
25. Select the publish date. Then, click Next.
26. You can set users of a specific company to be the recipients of this survey. To do that, click Select.
27. Select a company.
28. Click Select.
29. Click Next.
30. Finally, click Create to save and broadcast this survey to the users.
31. That's it. You're done.
Creating a Request Specific Survey
27 STEPS
1. Open DeskDirector Admin Portal and click the Survey icon.
2. A queue specific survey can be sent out when a ticket from a specific board is closed. This will override the default survey.
3. In this example, we will create a survey for tickets from the Incidents Board. Click Incidents.
4. Click the toggle switch to modify this survey.
5. Click the toggle switch at the top of the page to use this survey instead of the default.
6. A default first question is provided for you. To add more questions, click Add Question.
7. You can add two types of questions - CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) or NPS (Net Promoter Score). Click Add NPS question.
8. Type your question.
9. To allow or disallow the user to add comments, click the comment toggle switch.
10. Status triggers allow surveys to be sent for statuses other than closed. Click the drop-down to see the status options.
11. Status triggers allow surveys to be sent for statuses other than closed. Click the drop-down to see the status options.
12. You can select up to 5 statuses. Click Approval Declined.
13. Click Waiting On Client.
14. Click anywhere outside of the drop-down to confirm.
15. You can add email accounts to receive notifications when a negative review is submitted. To do this, click Add Email.
16. Type the email address.
17. Finally, click Save to save the changes.
18. To view and/or export survey results, go back to the queue/board list again and click on your preference.
19. If any surveys have been submitted, you can view their results here. Click the time drop-down to filter the period.
20. Click Current Month to view the results of surveys submitted in the current month.
21. You will find submitted surveys at the bottom of the page. Click any to view the details.
22. The details are displayed on the screen, as shown here.
23. Click the back arrow to go back.
24. To see export options, click the three-dots menu.
25. Click Export for Excel.
26. The exported Excel file contains the data from the surveys.
27. That's it. You're done.
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