BEST Practice to follow for Incidents and REQ/CATALOG TASKS for contact_type field.

Khyati Panchal1
Tera Contributor

Hello Experts,
My Team is looking to configure Service Channel (contact_type) field on the Service Catalog Request. Is it a good practice to configure?

Scenario: Currently, I've an incident where Service Channel (contact_type) field is configured for Service Desk to track down the no of incidents recorded through different Service Channels i.e: Phone, Email, Self Service, etc. as shown in screenshot.

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My Team is looking to bring same Channel field on the Service Catalog, Currently my Service Catalog looks something like this.

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Please help with the following:
Is it advisable to get this Channel field on Service Catalog? If yes, why?
OR
If No, please support with explanations.

Thank you.

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If it's a catalog item variable then I wouldnt see why not.  You'd be reporting on the contact type per catalog item.  If you wanted to have them across all catalog items then the contact type can be a variable set

It's not a catalog item variable for now.