Refer users to an FAQ/KB?

Our helpdesk guys would like to insert a step into the ticket creation
process that directs a user to a knowledge base or FAQ (bonus points if
it can select some likely articles based on keywords in the request)
before creating a ticket that would take any staff time. (Or, as a Plan
B, using the ticket creation autoresponse to suggest some self-service
troubleshooting links selected from a knowledge base using keywords
taken from the request.)

Anyone doing anything similar?

Mark Roedel
Webmaster
LeTourneau University

Our helpdesk guys would like to insert a step into the ticket creation
process that directs a user to a knowledge base or FAQ (bonus points if
it can select some likely articles based on keywords in the request)
before creating a ticket that would take any staff time. (Or, as a Plan
B, using the ticket creation autoresponse to suggest some self-service
troubleshooting links selected from a knowledge base using keywords
taken from the request.)

First inclination would be to play with remote/ajaxy custom fields as the
basis for setting the “subject” of the ticket…

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