This page will cover how to log a call with the Vision Team on the Portal;

Accessing the Support Portal

The location that you would need to go to log a call with the Vision Support team is the Customer Support Portal, use the link below to access the Support Portal

Ticket Portal

If this is your first time user, you will need to sign up for an account

The email address that you use would need to be a valid email address
Your Email address requires authentication for you to be able to obtain support.
Enter your email address for verification, create a password and provide your forename and surname, then "Sign Up"
You will then access the portal and be able to use your registered email address and the password you created to access the Portal in future

What is on this page -

How to Log

Once you have logged in to the Support Portal

You will be able to select from the following services

Software Support
Request for Change
Implementations

The Support Categories...explanation

Software Support Category

Once you have clicked on the section that you will log to raise.
For the Software Support, you will be able to select from the following requests

Software Support
- Report an issue
- Vision Question
- Bug/Issue(New)
- Re-run a Bug Fix
- Report/Data Extract
Customer Service
- Data Update
- Customer Service Questions
- Training Requests
Upgrades & Licensing
- Upgrade System
- Add Module
- Change Licenses
- Refresh Token
Testing Vision
- Testing Issues and Questions
Pre-Live Customers
- Questions

Request for Change Category

You will be able to select from the following requests

Data Change something
- If you want to perform a major data change or a data update, you can also make the request here. The support team can update transnational data and make simple changes, anything more complex you can use this category. This work is generally undertaken on a T&M basis
Improve the Application
- Improve something already in the system like a report or a screen or a process. This can be anything from a form change to which fields are shown, the navigation or search facilities
Request Something new
- If you want a brand new feature then select this option
Report
- This covers anything the system procedures, which can be printed A report/VCIS Report/Excel output/BI Enquiry or BI Reports. Covers addition including BI Report Requests or VCIS Reports
HMRC Request
- If you have a request from HMRC you can log it here, whether a data extract or a modification let us know

Implementations

You will only be able to see this section until your implementation is finished then it is generally removed

Request Something
- New Feature
- Reports
Implementation
- Implementation Task
- Log a Ticket

Raising a Ticket

For each ticket category there will be a number of reasons why you need to log a ticket, you need to select one of them to proceed

Once you have sent the ticket to the support queue, the system will send an email to the email address that you are using to sign in to the portal

Information we need to help you

When logging a call to the support team, please make sure the following has been answered.

Some of the questions are more for a specific ticket that you raise up

Review the questions below and provide information in your description relating to the relevant questions, plus any additional information that you consider to be relevant.
Vision Application and Version Number
What screen, form or report were you using at the time?
What were you trying to do?
What did you expect to happen?
What did happen?
Does this affect everything that you do?
Is this affecting every user on the system and nobody can do any work at all?
Is there a known change control reference you have previously been quoted by the support team? - If so please supply this.
If possible send a screenshot, especially if there is an error message on the screen.
For a request for change, what area you would like to change

Attachments

You are able to add an attachment to the support ticket, by drag and drop files, paste, or clicking on the Browse button when creating the issues.

Responding to Tickets

When a member support team replies to you on the ticket that you have raised. It will send an email and you will be able to reply to the email or (we do prefer) you to sign in to the portal you will be able to respond to the member of the ticket.

You will have a list of all the tickets that you have created under your user, you will be able to click on the Ticket reference and use the comment box to respond to support member

Viewing all Tickets

The general system shows all open tickets, so a ticket which is deemed to have been Resolve, Closed or in the case of RFC it is “Waiting Developers” would appear in the Closed category

You will therefore need to change the status options to include that category.

Process Flow of Tickets

The process of the log calls for the Software Support are the following

Status	Notes
Waiting for Triage	This is the default for any ticket arriving in the system, it is picked up from here and placed under review
Under Review	The ticket is reviewed to ensure we have all the relevant details, we update the ticket and apply a priority to the ticket, it is then passed to the support team queue waiting an engineer to pick up the ticket. Should we have any questions or require more information then we will ask you at this point
With Support	Ticket is with the support team who will either resolve it or they may need to ask more questions. If a question is asked the ticket moved to “With Customer”
With Customer	We have asked you for some details and the ticket is waiting your answer. If there is no response within 24 hours or 1 working day the ticket will be marked as closed.
Resolved	Resolution has been reached and ticket is closed. You can re-open a ticket within 5 days if you feel the problem still exists OR if it repeats.
Closed	No action has been taken

Updates / Comments on support tickets are sent via email, you can reply to those emails or you can use the ticket portal to reply

The Process Flow...more information

There is another status “Awaiting Developers” when you log a ticket which needs to be passed to the Development team it will be marked as this status until the item is released, when you will be told the ticket is then resolved.

Priorities

Our call priorities are based on the content of your call and how this effects the business, it is not based on how quickly you wish the call to be completed.

Priority	Notes
No Priority	Used when there is a question or the ticket is outside the scope of the support contract
Minor	Used when support are being asked to perform a function that the user could do for themselves.
Standard	The default for all calls.
High - User Critical	Used when a problem is effecting users where they are unable to complete an essential function
Critical or Business Critical	When the problem is effecting the entire business and nobody is able to work

Support Portal Down

What to do in the event of the Portal being down - Or you are unable to access the portal.

If for some reason you are unable to log a call via the Portal a call can be logged by telephone with the Helpdesk. We may still require further details if they can't be provided over the phone (Screenshot, error messages, etc) if this is the case we will reply on the call and request them.
- This should not be used instead of raising a Support Request if you are able to do so.
- This cannot be used to jump the normal Helpdesk prioritised queues. Calls logged via telephone will be diagnosed in the same way they would if they came through the portal.

Requesting Support