Conversations Workflow To Create Ticket

[SLink]

Hi,

We are still considering Hubspot and have a need which may be rather unique. We have thousands of emails stored on our file system and want to create tickets for each one. I can create the VBA in Outlook to open and process each email automatically, forwarding it to the Conversations shared Inbox. The problem comes in with a need to automate ticket creation only for those emails and then assign the ticket and close it.

I don't see an option to automatically create a ticket for each conversation, and I only want these forwarded emails to create the ticket automatically. Then I want to process only those tickets through this workflow.

Has anyone accomplished this starting at conversations before?

[dennisedson]

Hey @SLink 

Welcome to the Community!

This seems like a fun one 😀

@Kevin-C , @Bryantworks , @Huble_Connor, @Aakar  who here is up for this challenge 😛

[Bryantworks · Accepted solution]

Hey @dennisedson if you're forwarding an email to a shared HubSpot inbox you're looking to use an associated "Activity" to generate the ticket.  You can do so via a contact workflow then segment by an email criteria:

You can then set it to create a ticket with a closed status.  But do note by doing this if a contact has more than one email, it'll only create a ticket for the first email.  Meaning if they have 3 different threads, they're still only getting 1 ticket.  I haven't heard of someone doing this before.  Would it not be better to just import these emails as a ticket directly instead?  

[SLink]

Yes, the goal is to get these emails in as a ticket. If we can move them directly from a network-stored msg file into a new ticket, problem solved with fewer steps. Do you have advice on accomplishing that since nothing popped out to me as a solution?

[SLink]

@Bryantworks Including you in the reply since I believe that was skipped earlier.

Yes, the goal is to get these emails in as a ticket. If we can move them directly from a network-stored msg file into a new ticket, problem solved with fewer steps. Do you have advice on accomplishing that since nothing popped out to me as a solution?