Updates feed overview

The Updates feed display events that occur in Smart IT for the tickets and resources that you follow. They are a record of updates made to tickets and resources, and events such as outages, broadcasts, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). For example, you can view events such as status updates, comments, knowledge article updates, and relationship changes. You also get a feed when Smart IT users mention you in a comment by using the @ key.

You can follow tickets and resources given in this table:

Tickets	Incident, work order, change request, problem investigation, known error, task, and service request
Resources	Asset and Knowledge article

You also receive feeds of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs), broadcasts, and outages for the tickets and resources that you follow.

You can view and access the Updates feed on the Universal client (UC) desktop, Google Android and Apple iOS devices. On the Updates feed, you can select the title or ID of the ticket or resource to open and view details of the update. You can open the asset to see the scheduled outage.

You mostly work on multiple tickets, follow multiple tickets, articles, and assets, keep track of SLAs, there are broadcasts and outages that might impact your work. In such cases, Updates feed give you a quick view of the events that have happened to tickets, specially when other Smart IT users have done any updates.

Why do we get updates?

You receive updates feed of tickets and resources in the following scenarios:

You follow tickets, knowledge articles, or assets. You must click the Followicon on the ticket profile.
You assign tickets and resources to self by using the Assign to me option, and thus follow them.
You are the assignee of tickets, knowledge articles, or assets. As an assignee, you automatically start following the assigned tickets and resources.
You are the owner of assets.
You act on tickets or resources.
If you are assignee of a ticket in BMC Remedy IT Service Management (BMC Remedy ITSM), you will continue to be its assignee in Smart IT.

To stop getting updates feed of tickets and resources:

Click the Unfollow icon on the ticket profile. However, you still continue to be the assignee for the ticket.
You assign the ticket or resource to another user, and click the Unfollow icon.

In case of SLA breach alerts, broadcasts, and outages, you receive their updates in the following scenarios:

SLA breaches happen to the tickets that you follow.
There are outages related to the assets that you follow.
There are broadcasts about your location, site, company, organization, and support group.

Note

Service desk agents would be swamped with feeds about all the tickets that they create, and hence Smart IT does not add any feed in the Updates feed when you create tickets. When you create a ticket, if you do not change the assignment, based on the auto-assignment rules set in BMC Remedy ITSM, the system automatically sets the assignee for the ticket. In this case, a feed is not created in your (creator) Updates feed. But if you change the assignment when creating ticket, a feed is added to your Updates feed. Because you did some activity on the ticket, you become a follower of that ticket. The person who you assigned the ticket also gets an feed in his Updates feed.

When you create knowledge articles, you automatically become its follower, and get an update feed about the article you created.

Types of updates in the feed

The system displays the following types of updates in the feeds for the tickets and resources you follow:

Types of feed	Events that trigger feeds	What is displayed in the feed?
Approval Status Updates	Change requests and knowledge articles are approved, rejected, or kept on hold.
Asset Ownership Updates	Updates to the primary owner of asset.
Assignment Updates	Assignment updates for all types of tickets.
BCM Actions	BCM actions performed on asset, such as auditing and restart.
Broadcasts	Broadcasts that impact you. Feeds are added according to their start time.
Knowledge Article Updates	Updates such as flagged and unflagged articles.
Location Changes	Location updates made for assets.
Outages	Outages created for assets.
Priority Updates	Change in the priority of tickets and resources.
Relationship Changes	People, asset, and ticket relationships created on assets.
SLA Alerts	SLA breaches of the tickets.
Status Updates	Change in the status of tickets and resources.
Task Updates	Task created by using template for tickets, such as incident, work order, change request, and activities.

Sequence of updates in the feed

The feeds are placed according to the time they occur; the most recent feed is placed at the top. They are listed in the following order:

Top—All open SLA breach alerts
Middle—All open broadcasts, outages, and flagged knowledge article notifications
Bottom—Other feeds such as comments, status changes, unflagged knowledge article notifications, restored outages, SLA breach alerts, and broadcasts

The top and the middle order of the feeds give you a quick view of the current status of the tickets that you follow, and helps you to quickly respond to the comment or alert. You might have to quickly act upon and unflag a flagged knowledge article.

If there are no feeds about SLA breach alerts, broadcasts, outages, and flagged knowledge article, other feeds are displayed at the top according to the time the event occurred.

You can view and access the Updates feed on the Universal client (UC) desktop, Google Android and Apple iOS devices.

Mobile devices	UC

On the Updates feed, you can search by the contents of the ticket. You can open the asset to see the scheduled outage.

Pinned updates

Feeds about SLA breach alerts, broadcasts, and outages that have not reached their end date, and flagged knowledge articles are by default marked with a pin icon. The pinned feeds remain at the top and middle layer of the Updates feed until you unpin them, or specify their end date in BMC Remedy ITSM, or unflag the article. After viewing the pinned feed, you can select the pin icon to unpin them. If you do not unpin, the system automatically unpins them after they reach their end date, or after the article is unflagged. Once unpinned, the feeds are moved to the bottom layer according to the time they were added to the Updates feed.

Additional information about the unpin feature:

The unpinning action is specific to each Smart IT user. For example, when you unpin an SLA breach alert, other Smart IT users will still see that SLA as a pinned feed in their Updates feed.
You cannot pin an unpinned feed.

Scenarios when pinned feeds are dismissed without unpinning:

Close the ticket that has the SLA breach alert.
Restore the outage by specifying the current date as the end date of the outage.
Unflag the flagged knowledge article.

Filters in the Updates feed

When you receive multiple feeds, important feeds might remain below unread SLA breach alerts, outages, broadcasts and other comments. To see specific type of updates, you must specify filters in the Updates feed. You can access filters in the following way:

UC users - Click the Filter icon on the Updates feed.
Google Android users - Tap the Filter icon on the Updates screen.
Apple iOS users - Tap the Filter option on the Updates screen.

You can search for feeds of a specific ticket or resource in the search box.