A complete, step-by-step guide to every feature in HelmDesk, organised by who you are.
Everyone — including line managers who aren't agents or admins.
Sign in with your work Microsoft account. You'll land on the Home page (/app), which shows a summary tailored to your role: your open tickets, anything waiting on your approval, your meal plan status, upcoming transport/recurring workflow reminders, and any active outages.
For anything that isn't a known, structured process, click New voyage (/app/support) and describe your issue in plain language to Helmsman, the built-in AI assistant.
Workflows are pre-built, form-based processes for common requests — expense reimbursement, leave requests, software/equipment requests, and similar — each with its own approval chain already configured.
/app/workflows/catalog) to browse the catalog, grouped by category, with each template's steps listed.The My Workflowstab on the same catalog page lists everything you've started and its current status. Recurring workflows (things that repeat on a schedule, like a subscription renewal) show up as a series of individual cycles — open /app/workflows/recurring/[scheduleId]from a notification or from My Workflows to complete the current cycle's steps.
My tickets (/app/tickets) has two tabs:
Click any ticket or request to open its full thread or step-by-step tracking page. Files attached to any message — yours or an agent's — show as a chip you can click to open or download, right in the thread.
If you're a line manager, department approver, or anyone else a workflow step or ticket approval has been assigned to, My approvals (/app/approvals) is where you act on it. It has three sections:
Click through to review the details and approve or reject — you can add an optional remark either way, not just when rejecting. Some steps ask for information rather than a yes/no decision (e.g. a department supplying a cost estimate first); those show "Submit information" / "Can't provide" instead, and require typing something first. You'll also get a notification whenever something new lands.
Open Services → Rooms (/app/rooms) to reserve a meeting or board room.
Open Services → Transport (/app/transport) to manage your daily commute enrollment.
Open Services → Meal Plan (/app/meal-plan) to manage your meal subscription.
Open Services → Emergency (/app/emergency) for two tabs of published reference material:
These are maintained by Admins via the knowledge-base uploads, so they stay current without needing a code change.
Open Services → Outages (/app/outages) to check whether something organisation-wide or location-wide is already known to be down — internet, power, air conditioning, and similar — before raising an individual ticket for it.
The bell icon in the top navigation shows unread notifications — new ticket replies, approvals waiting on you, workflow status changes, and outage alerts. Click one to mark it read and jump straight to the relevant page, or use Mark all read.
Settings (/app/settings) covers two things:
Start a New voyageand describe what's not working — that's the fastest way to reach a person who can help.