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SwanDesk 2610.27.1
This release updates the database automatically the first time it starts.
- Security: A signed-in customer could send a specially crafted new-ticket
request that named someone else as the requester, or set the assignee,
category or SLA. SwanDesk now ignores those fields when a customer opens a
ticket. Update is recommended for every installation. - New: Role permissions. A new Settings > Permissions tab lets
administrators choose what Reps and Managers can do: see tickets from every
department, delete tickets, edit knowledge base articles, manage canned
responses, edit the Change Log, edit tasks and assets, see software license
keys, edit vendors, open contracts and the budget, retry failed email, and
more. Each role starts with exactly the access it had before, and Reset to
defaults puts it back. Buttons a person isn't allowed to use are hidden, and
a Rep without task editing sees a read-only view of each task. Settings,
users, security, API keys and other administrator tools stay admin-only.
Edition limits still apply: a permission never unlocks a feature your edition
doesn't include. - New: Maintenance windows and staff notices in the Change Log
(Professional and Enterprise). A change can now carry a maintenance window:
start and end time, a short summary, the expected impact, and the office it
affects. SwanDesk emails your staff about it, modelled on the maintenance
notices internet providers send: an announcement when you save with
Email the announcement now ticked (off by default, because most
maintenance doesn't affect anyone); reminders a set number of days before
the start (default 7 and 1) at a set time of day (default 3:00 PM), plus a
final reminder the day before, never more than one a day; a
Rescheduled notice when you move an announced window; and Completed
and Cancelled notices from the new buttons on the change, sent only if
staff were told about it in the first place. For unplanned outages, the
Emergency box sends the notice the moment you save, allows a start in the
past and an open end ("Until resolved"), and the Completed notice shows when
service was restored. - New: Maintenance notices go To the help desk address with your
recipients (usually an all-staff distribution group) in Bcc, so a
"Reply All" reaches only the help desk, and a reply becomes an ordinary
ticket with a note pointing to the change. Times show your server's time zone
(PST/PDT, EST/EDT, ...). The email never includes the change's description,
reason or rollback plan, contains no links, and says so. If SwanDesk is not
running when a reminder is due, that reminder is skipped rather than sent
late. The Change Log list and timeline now show each change's window and
status (Scheduled, In progress, Completed, Cancelled). Defaults live in
Settings > Change Log; the wording can be edited as the "Maintenance
notice" email template (Enterprise). - Fixed: Saving the password-reminder template (or any template whose event
isn't a ticket event) in the email template editor silently changed its event
to "Ticket Updated". The editor now keeps every template's event. - Note: If you customised any page under Settings > Templates (for
example the Change Log, knowledge base, asset, software or ticket pages), the
saved copy predates these features. Settings > Permissions lists any such
page with a Use built-in page button.