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Helpdesk Employee Self-Service

Summary​

The employee page provides a title/description/category/priority form and a ticket-history list showing title, category, priority, status and due date. Source review identifies material contract and data-scope limitations.

Audience​

Employees, HR administrators, product, QA, support and security reviewers.

Business Purpose​

Allow an authenticated employee to request assistance and observe progress without using the agent administration surface.

Actors​

The employee creates and views requests; the gateway carries tenant/user context; the helpdesk service stores tickets; agents process them.

Business Process​

Responsibilities​

Employees supply meaningful request content. Implementers must protect requester data and align the page/service contract. Security owners must verify authorization before rollout.

Business Rules​

The client requires nonblank title and description. Navigation visibility uses self-service helpdesk permission. The service itself requires category and priority identifiers and tenant context.

Integrations​

The page calls the gateway employee-helpdesk boundary, which forwards to the extracted Helpdesk Service. The employee dashboard also derives an open-ticket count from the returned list.

Limitations​

The form sends category/priority text while the service creation contract expects identifiers. The list forwarding does not add a requester filter, and the service list is tenant-scoped rather than requester-scoped; therefore a user may receive tenant-wide tickets. No employee comments, attachments, detail, closure or reopen controls exist.

Requires Confirmation​

This surface requires security acceptance only after requester scoping, contract alignment and end-to-end permission enforcement are verified. Employee-visible/internal comment separation also requires confirmation.

Source References​

  • microservices/src/gateway-api/EssEndpoints.cs
  • microservices/src/helpdesk-service/Api/HelpdeskEndpoints.cs
  • UI/salary-ui/apps/client-hrms-portal/src/ess/EssPages.tsx
  • UI/salary-ui/apps/client-hrms-portal/src/components/AppLayout.tsx

Reference Content​

The submission form, ticket-history display, gateway path and material scoping/contract gaps above are the verified self-service reference.

See Also​

Keywords​

Employee self-service, support request, ticket history, requester isolation.

Revision Information​

Draft source-backed reference reviewed 2026-07-20; next quarterly review is 2026-10-20.