Reporting staff are somewhat indifferent. It’s a bit of a hassle and the native interface makes no sense for help desk ticketing (it’s very clear that it’s for development). Staff that respond to issues are trained on it and it works for them, but it’s still not ideal.
I would not recommend JIRA as a help desk solution. There are better/cheaper options out there. As a bugtracking/development system? Maybe. And for the love of all that is holy, if you go with JIRA for any reason, do not run it locally. -Sean On 3/24/14, 2:32 PM, "McHale, Nina" <[email protected]> wrote: >Just curious, those of you using JIRA: my experience with it is limited >and outside of libraries (working in a web development firm) and it >struck me as something that would be overly complicated for a simple >ticketing system for non-IT staff reporting issues. > >Do staff...like it? :) > >Best, > >Nina > >Nina McHale | Digital Experience Consultant | Colorado State Library - >Colorado Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80203 | >tel 303.866.6906 | www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Lisa Gayhart >Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 12:24 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting >purpose > >Here at UofT library IT, we also use the JIRA/Confluence bundle. Started >last year and so far it has worked out quite well for us. Since it¹s >web-based, we can easily access our information anywhere, which is great >when it comes to the content we store in Confluence. The package is quite >flexible and I¹m finding that the more we use it, the more we learn. I >would recommend both tools. > >Lisa Gayhart | Digital Communications Services Librarian| University of >Toronto Libraries | Information Technology Services | >[email protected]| 416-946-0959 > > > >> >>On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Jenny Jing <[email protected]> >>wrote: >> >>> Hi, All: >>> >>> We are in the process of replacing our internal ticketing system. We >>>need it to be web-based, and staff can attach screenshots when they >>>report an issue, and we can run reports to get the usage statistics. >>> >>> We also want to use it as a reference question knowledge base in the >>> future if the system is flexible for us to customize. >>> For example, users can send us questions and we can keep track of >>> what kind of questions we get, who is working on it, etc. >>> >>> It could be an open source or commercial tool. >>> >>> Does anyone know of something which is good to use? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Jenny >>> >>> Jenny Jing >>> Information Systems Librarian >>> Discovery Systems >>> Queen's University Library >>> Kingston ON, K7L 5C4 >>> [email protected] >>> 613-533-6000 x 75302 >>>
