Custom Product Tour


You can create product tours to familiarize your users with the various features and functionalities of the self-service portal. This helps your organization reduce overhead on training users and thereby aids in better utilization of resources in your service departments.

This tour is designed as a collection of steps that you can customize by using text, images, and videos. It is shown to the users on the landing page after logging into the self-service portal. If enabled by the admin, an option to access or re-launch the tour will be available under the Profile Settings user panel as well.

 

Role Required: SDAdmin

 

ServiceDesk Plus provides default tour content in English. Depending on your requirements, you can create new content in any language.
You can mark any tour as the default tour.
Requesters will be shown the tour based on their language settings. If the tour content is not available in the requester's language, then the default tour will be shown.

You can perform various actions on the tours either from the list view or from the editor.  

 

Access List View and Editor

 

Typical List View

To access the tour list view, go to Admin > General Settings > Self-Service Portal Settings > Customization.

 

On the list view, you can see details such as language, status, and the number of views and perform various operations such as creating, editing, deleting, and disabling tours. Also, you can configure repeat frequency and relaunch settings from the list view.

To access editor: 
 

Go to the list view and click Customize Now under the Customize Help tour section. Here, you can either click the language of the preferred tour to open the existing tour or click New Language and select the preferred language to open the editor to create a new tour.

 

Typical Editor

 

 

 

Create Help Tour

To create and publish a new tour:

  1. Go to the tour list view.

  2. Click New Language and select the preferred language to open the tour editor.

  3. For each step, provide the following details.

 

Field

Description

Step Name

Provide a relevant name for the step. This is used to track the steps and will not appear on the tour. This is a mandatory field.

Title

Provide a relevant title for the step. This will be the title that appears on the tour. This is a mandatory field.

Content

Add text-based content for the tour.

 

  1. To add an image, click Insert Image and choose your preferred image.

  2. To add a video, click Embed Video, add the relevant code to the textbox, and click Insert.

  3. Finally, click Publish

 

To add a new step, click Save and Add New or click   on the left pane.
To delete or disable a step, click on the step-selector card on the left pane and choose the appropriate option.
To reorder the steps, hover over the preferred step-selector card on the left pane, click   and drag it to the preferred position.
Images and videos added to a step will appear in the preview box.
You can use the alignment buttons to align the image and video as required.

 

Configure Repeat Frequency and Relaunch Settings

Based on your organizational requirements, you can repeat the product tour for your users after a specific number of days and also provide an option for users to relaunch the tour when required under the User Profile settings.

To configure these,

  1. Click Settings on the top-right corner of the list view.

  2. On the pop-up that appears, configure the following options as required:

  3. Finally, click Save.

 

Edit Help Tour

To edit a Help tour:

  1. Go to the list view and click the language of the preferred tour.

  2. Make necessary changes and click Save for the required steps.

  3. Finally, click Publish.

 

When making changes to the published tour, the status changes from Published to Draft.
At any time, you can discard the current changes and restore the published version by clicking and then choosing Restore Published.
For English tour, you can also restore the default content bundled with the product by clicking   and then choosing Restore Default.

 

Preview Help Tour

Disable Help Tour

From the list View: Hover over the preferred tour, click and select Disable.

 

From the Editor: Click and then select Disable.

 

Delete Help Tour

From the list View: Hover over the preferred tour, click and select Delete.

From the Editor: Click and then select Delete.

 

Make as Default

From the list view: Hover over the preferred tour, click and select Make Default.

  
View Tour details

To view more information, go to the editor by clicking the language of the preferred tour and click and then select More Info.

 

 

Alternatively, you can view the complete history of changes made to the tour content under the History tab.