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Incident Management categories

Each category record contains fields to define assignment groups for the Category, Open, and Print options and forms that Incident Management associates with the category as well as the triggers for alert levels.

Category Use
Complaint Interactions in which the user reports less than satisfactory service or performance. This is a Hybrid mode category, that is created by using your existing Classic mode category when you upgrade to Service Manager Hybrid.
Complaint codeless Interactions in which the user reports less than satisfactory service or performance.
Incident Interactions that are opened specifically to start an incident management process. This is a Hybrid mode category, that is created by using your existing Classic mode category when you upgrade to Service Manager Hybrid.
Incident codeless Interactions that are opened specifically to start an incident management process.
Problem Codeless Interactions that are opened specifically to start the problem management process.
Request for Administration Interactions that are opened specifically to request assistance from a system administrator, such as a password resets or rights to access a specific area.
Request for Change Interactions that are opened specifically to start a change process. This is a Hybrid mode category, that is created by using your existing Classic mode category when you upgrade to Service Manager Hybrid.
Request for Information Call or incidents that request information only. This is a Hybrid mode category, that is created by using your existing Classic mode category when you upgrade to Service Manager Hybrid.
Request for Information codeless Call or incidents that request information only.
Service catalog codeless Interactions that are requests for items from the service catalog.

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