Escalation of High-Value Pending Tickets
This guide explains how to configure a workflow to automatically escalate high-value tickets that remain unresolved for a certain period.
Use Case
For instance, you may want to escalate tickets with potential savings greater than $50 that have not been resolved within 7 days. This setup automatically notifies higher-level stakeholders, such as engineering leads or cost optimization managers, to ensure timely attention to impactful tickets and help avoid missed savings opportunities.
Setting up Workflow
Choose the Trigger for the Workflow
In the workflow setup, select the Tickets option as your trigger.
For this scenario, choose Ticket is Created, as you want to trigger the workflow when a new ticket is generated.
Trigger Start
You’ll have two options for how these conditions should be applied:
Trigger when all conditions match – the workflow will only trigger if all conditions are met.
Trigger when any condition matches – the workflow will trigger if one of the conditions is met.
You can configure multiple conditions by clicking on the Add Rule button.

Conditions Configuration
Each condition involves filling out three fields:
Criteria: Choose the specific property of the ticket you want to filter by. You can use the following attributes:
Ticket: Status, Category
Recommendation: Potential Savings, Effort
Resource: Name, Account, Region, Service, Tags
Cost Center (Org Hierarchy): Cost Center, Category
Policy: Name, Category
Limit: Set a comparison operator or criteria type for the selected attribute. The available options vary based on the chosen criteria.
Borderline: Set the specific value or list of values to compare against.

Example: Recommendation > Potential Savings
Criteria: Potential Savings
Limit: Greater Than
Borderline: 500 (this would filter for tickets where potential savings are greater than $500).
You can set multiple conditions, each with unique criteria, limits, and boundaries, depending on the ticket types you wish to target.
Once all conditions are defined, click Save Changes to finalize the trigger.
Set Up Email Notifications
After defining the trigger and conditions, click Add Step.
Under Messaging, choose Send Email to Users.

Configure Email
Add the following details:
Recipients: Enter the email addresses of the users who should receive the email notifications.
Cc/Bcc: Optionally, add additional recipients in the Cc or Bcc fields.
Subject: Specify the subject line for the email notification.
Message: Enter the email's body content, including relevant details for the recipients.

Preview the Email
To ensure the email looks as expected, you can preview it before sending it.
Click on Show preview with mock data to view the email preview. This will display how the email will appear with sample data, allowing you to verify its format and content.
Once you're satisfied with the preview, click on Save Changes.

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