Patcher for Jira Service Management docs
16 known issues — each with the cause, the workaround, and the Patcher fix.
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Welcome to Patcher for Jira Service Management
What Patcher for Jira Service Management is, and how to use these docs.
Overview
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Customers can’t add request participants from the portal
Let customers add colleagues to their own request, straight from the portal.
Portal participants
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Approvers get no reminder for pending approvals
Nudge approvers until they act, and escalate to a backup when they don't.
Approval reminders
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Agents can’t raise a request on behalf of a customer
Log phone, chat and walk-up requests with the right customer as the reporter.
Raise on behalf of
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Portal fields can’t be shown as read-only to customers
Show customers context like SLA or assigned agent without letting them edit it.
Read-only portal fields
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SLA timers don’t pause while waiting for the customer
Stop the SLA clock while the ball is in the customer's court.
SLA pause on customer wait
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Request types can’t be grouped or reordered in the portal
Group and order request types the way customers actually think.
Portal request-type groups
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Ongoing major incidents aren’t surfaced on the portal
Tell customers about an active outage before they raise a duplicate ticket.
Portal incident banner
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SLA targets can’t differ by priority within one queue
Give Critical a tighter target than Low without extra queues.
Per-priority SLA targets
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Approval emails don’t include the request details
Put cost, access level and justification right in the approval email.
Rich approval emails
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No follow-up on unanswered satisfaction (CSAT) surveys
Remind customers who missed the survey, and lift your response rate.
CSAT reminders
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Queues can’t be shared or reordered per agent
Let agents pin, reorder and share the queues that matter to them.
Personal & shared queues
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Customer notifications can’t be tailored per request type
Make a password reset and a major change read differently to the customer.
Per-request-type notifications
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Agents can’t bulk-reply or bulk-transition a queue
Clear a wave of identical tickets in one pass, with an auditable response.
Bulk reply & transition
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Knowledge base articles aren’t suggested on the portal form
Deflect easy questions by surfacing the right article as the customer types.
Live KB suggestions
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Linked assets aren’t shown to the customer on their request
Let customers confirm the exact device or service their request is about.
Customer-visible assets
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