Tikit Virtual Agent is your end users “portal” to getting problems solved. Once you deploy Tikit Virtual Agent to all your end users they will be able to quickly submit request and get answers.
Tikit consists of multiple Teams applications and the goal of each application is to solve the needs of the particular user persona that interacts with that application. The Tikit App helps Analysts to quickly triage and solve tickets from Teams, while the Tikit Virtual Agent is the first-line of support for your end-users.
For more information on the Tikit teams app please go here.
Follow our Tikit Virtual Agent Recommended Setup Guide for steps on installing and deploying Tikit Virtual Agent to users. Once Tikit Virtual Agent has been installed to your organization’s Teams app store, admins can deploy the app automatically to users.
The ticket deflection knowledge base allows the Tikit Virtual Agent to intelligently respond to user questions with useful answers to lower the ticket workload of analysts. Tikit uses Azure’s natural language processing (NLP) to train Tikit Virtual Agent to answer your common user requests. Tikit is also gearing up for tracking deflected tickets. If a ticket deflection is successful, Tikit automatically creates a new ticket with the Deflected status, the user’s question as the title, and the kb answer as a comment. For more information on training your ticket deflection knowledge base, check out the Tikit Teams App docs.
To make a request in the Tikit Virtual Agent App:
- Open the Tikit Virtual Agent App.
- Send a message to Tikit Virtual Agent. Tikit Virtual Agent will either reply with an answer from the Tikit knowledge base or if there is no related answer, quick shortcuts to make a new request or view your requests’ status.
- If Tikit Virtual Agent replies with ticket deflection, then select an answer in the Was this answer helpful? prompt:
- No Display the Make a request field to continue making a request.
- Yes Automatically create and close a ticket as Deflected.
- If Tikit Virtual Agent replies with a Hey! message, select Make a request.
- Make any changes needed in Make a Request, then select Submit.
- Tikit Virtual Agent will reply with a request received message for the new ticket. Selecting one of the shortcuts in this reply will autofill commands you can send to Tikit Virtual Agent:
- Status of my requests
- Reply to ticket
- View ticket
Users can view their requests by sending a quick message to Tikit Virtual Agent. Thanks to Natural Language Processing, there is no specific command, code, or sequence to remember! For example, users can message Tikit Virtual Agent with “my requests”, “requests”, “tickets”, or even “tikits” and Tikit Virtual Agent will helpfully respond with a summary of their requests.
To view my requests in the Tikit Virtual Agent App:
- Send Tikit Virtual Agent “my requests” or a similar message and Tikit Virtual Agent will reply with a list of the user’s requests.
- For more ticket details, select the Title of any result and Tikit Virtual Agent will reply with request details.
Ticket and notification cards in Tikit Virtual Agent have handy Reply to Ticket sections for users to add comments to their requests.
To reply to a ticket in the Tikit Virtual Agent App:
- Enter a new comment in the Reply to Ticket field. If the Reply to Ticket field is hidden, select Reply to see it.
- Select Send to save the comment. Tikit Virtual Agent will reply with the updated ticket and send a notification to the assigned analyst.
Ticket and notification cards in Tikit Virtual Agent have handy Add Attachment buttons to attach files to their requests.
To add an attachment in the Tikit Virtual Agent App:
Add Attachment attaches a file to the ticket. Files are copied from the conversation or channel where they are initially uploaded to the triage channel’s SharePoint for access by analysts or the ticket requester.
- Select Add Attachment and Tikit Virtual Agent will ask you to send a file to attach. Once attached, Tikit Virtual Agent will report back with all attachments for the specific ticket.
Attachments are shown in the ticket card. Select a filename to open the attachment.
Note that only analysts and the ticket requester are given access to the file once uploaded from the chat to Tikit Virtual Agent.
Tikit Virtual Agent will display the latest three comments on a ticket by default, but users can view the rest in the Conversation History window.
To show the full conversation for a ticket in the Tikit Virtual Agent App:
- Find a request and select Show Full Conversation to see Conversation History.
- In the Conversation History window, users can see previous comments and add new replies to the ticket.
- To add a new comment from the Conversation History window, select Reply, enter a comment, and select Send to add the comment.
Tikit Virtual Agent makes sure that users are updated on the status of their tickets with Teams notifications.
Here are some examples:
Ticket has been assigned to Analyst.
A new comment has been added to ticket.
Ticket has been updated.
Coming soon, any notifications received from the HelpBot virtual agent will also be added to the user’s Activity Feed. Activity Feed notifications will link to the original notification from HelpBot.
