Book:OTRS 3.0 - Admin Manual/Chapter 5/6

OTRS allows you to send automatic responses to customers on the occurence of certain events, such as the creation of a ticket in certain queue, reception of a follow-up message on a ticket, closure or rejection of a ticket, etc. To manage such responses, click the link "Auto responses" on the Admin page (see Figure 5.34 below).

To create an automatic response, click on the button "Add auto response", provide the needed data and submit it (see Figure 5.35 below).

The subject and text of auto responses can be generated by variables, just as in signatures and salutations. If you insert, for example, the variable  into the body of the auto answer, the first 5 lines of the customer mail text will be inserted into the auto answer. You will find more details about the valid variables that can be used at the bottom of the screen shown in the Figure 5.35.

For every automatic answer, you can specify the event that should trigger it. The system events that are available after a default installation are described in the Table 5-3.

To add an auto response to a queue, use the "Auto Response <-> Queues" link on the Admin page (see Figure 5.36 below). All system events are listed for every queue, and an auto answer with the same event can be selected or removed via a listbox.

To define the different auto responses that will be available for a queue, click on the corresponding queue name (see Figure 5.37 below). It is also possible to edit an existing auto response - to do so, click on the reponse and edit in the same manner as editing a new auto response.