Can someone help me a response SLA condition question?
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01-10-2015 09:41 AM
I have a Response SLA set for my incidents that has a start, stop and pause conditions like below:
The incident only transitions to the Active state once an engineer has been assigned. The Incident state is in New until the assignment of an engineer occurs.
Completing the assigned too field stops the SLA.
This all works well until the engineer who is going to get it assigned to them is creating the new incident.
Where it breaks down is the engineer builds the new incident by selecting "Create New" in the application. They then complete the form INCLUDING putting their name in the assigned to field. This causes the Start and Stp to met simultaneously and I think I read that if this happens the SLA is not attached to the record. Which seems to be the case.
I made this modification and it helped but the SLA is cancelling itself as it still gets into a race condition and cancels the SLA.
What I would like is to show that we met the SLA. Right now in PROD it does not show any response SLA which is good as it is not detrimental to our percentages but it also does not help it like it should.
Any help in how to get this SLA to work correctly under these conditions is appreciated.
I know one work around I could do is to make the assigned to field read only until it is submitted - but that is an extra step that I would prefer to add in front of my enigneers.
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11-30-2015 10:14 AM
Glad to hear it!

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11-29-2015 07:09 PM
HI Kevin,
I had similar scenario where start & stop condition matches at the same time. Though its treated as 0s Response Time but for reporting purpose I attached a SLA manually at the closure of ticket.
i.e I query task_sla table before closing the ticket, it there is no sla bound to it I attach manually.
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11-29-2015 07:47 PM
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11-29-2015 08:49 PM
Maybe:
- Add a true/false field called 'Assigned' to the table, defaulted to false.
- Update SLA stop condition to be when Assigned is set to true
- Create a business rule that runs:
- after insert and after update
- when assignment group is not empty
- when Assigned is false.
- The business rule would need to use javascript to set Assigned to true and re-save the record (Stop condition met).