Setting up your service desk
- Setting up your service desk
- Creating service desk request types
- Making queues for your service desk teams
- Adding service desk agents
- Customize your service desk channels
- Bring your service desk to the next level
- Introduce customers to your service desk
- Explore a sample project
You'll need a working Jira Service Desk instance to complete this tutorial, and we have installation instructions for both Windows and Linux operating systems.
If you have an existing Jira Service Desk site, skip ahead to create a service desk project. If your administrator has set you up as a project admin for an existing project, jump to Step 2 to create your request types.
Create a project
Jira Service Desk comes with default project templates that you can use to suit your team's needs. Create a basic service desk project for teams that only need a few request types, or create an IT service desk for teams working with change and incident management processes. Let's get you set up with a basic service desk project.
If you're working with an existing Jira Service Desk instance, select Projects > Create Project from the the top navigation bar of your instance. If you've just installed and set up Jira Service Desk, you'll have the option to Create a new project by selecting Create new project.
Select "Basic Service Desk" as the project type.
Name your project. In this example, we'll use the project name "Charlie Cake Franchises". The project key should be automatically populated, but you can change the key if you'd like. If you see options to link another application, leave these options unchecked.
- Select Submit to create your project.
Nice work! You now have a service desk site with one project. You will now learn to set up request types, which define the requests customers can submit to your team's service desk project.