How to: Utilize Filters in Chat
Chat filters help you and your team stay organized in the Teletask Portal. You can organize your chats in different ways, including by their status, assignment, location, or subject These steps will walk you through the different chat filters and what they do.
- Open Chats
The Open Chats messages view allows you to see all open messages that are either unassigned or assigned to yourself. You can leave chats in the Open status or close them to help keep your work space clear.
- Unread Chats
The Unread Chats m
essages view allows you to see all unread messages that have not been viewed by anyone in your organization.
Note: Once anyone has viewed an Unread chat message, the message will no longer appear in the Unread Chats filter unless their status is changed to Unread again.
Mark as Unread
- In the left-hand panel, locate the message that you want to mark as Unread and then check the box next to that message.
Note: You can check more then one box to change multiple messages at once.
- A new set of options will appear at the top of the page, press the Unread option.
- When you select the Unread option, the message will appear to be unread and show up under the Unread filter.
- Closing Chats
The Closed Chats messages view allows you to see all closed messages. We offer two options for closing chats. There is a quick close option when you are responding to a client or you can mark the chat as closed.
Quick Close
When you reply to a client, use the Send + Close button . This will send the message and close the chat until the client responds. When the client responds, the chat will re-open.
Mark as Closed
- In the left-hand panel locate the message that you want to mark as Closed and then check the box next to that message.
Note: You can check more than one box to change multiple messages at once.
- A new set of options will appear at the top of the page, press the Close option.
- When you select the Close option, the message will close and appear under the Closed Chats filter.
Assignment Filters
My Assignments
The My Assignments messages view allows you to see all open messages that are assigned to yourself.
Quick Assign
You can assign a chat to yourself quickly by pressing the Assign to Me arrow list of viewable chats or the Assign to me
- Not Assigned
The Not Assigned messages view allows you to see all open messages that are currently unassigned.
- Other Assignments
The Other Assignments messages view allows you to see all open messages that are assigned to other users. To further filter your view by user, select a particular user from the All Users drop-down.
Assign Individual Chats
Open the chat that you want to assign to a user.
In the right-hand panel click the Chat Options to view the additional options.
Select Assign Chat and a drop-down list of your users will appear. Pick the user who you would like the chat assigned to.
The chat is now assigned to the user that you selected.
- All Assignments
The All Assignments messages view allows you to see all open messages. To further filter your view by user, select a particular user from the All Users drop-down.
Secondary Filters - Location, Subject, and Alphabetical or Numerical Order
- Location Filters
The Location view allows you to add a secondary filter to your chat view by selecting the clinic or office the client is associated with.
To Filter by location
- Select the primary filter you would like to use.
- Click on Location and from the drop-down menu and check the boxes next to the locations that you would like to use.
Note: By default, it will select all locations..
- Now the chats that are displayed in the left-hand panel are only these associated with the selected locations.
- Subject Filters
The Subject view allows you to add a secondary filter to your chat view by selecting the subject a chat is associated with.
Note: Before you filter by Subject, you have to enable and create chat subjects. For more information about Chat Subjects visit: How to: Add Subjects to Chat
To Filter by Subject
- Select the primary filter you would like to use.
- Click on Subject and from the drop-down menu and check the boxes next subject that you would like to use.
- Now the chats that are displayed in the left-hand panel are only these associated with the selected subjects.
- Sort in Alphabetical or Numerical Order
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