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Ticket Panels

Deploy interactive dropdown panels so users can open tickets without knowing any commands.

What Is a Panel?

A panel is a Discord embed posted by Help Buddy to a channel of your choosing. It contains a dropdown menu with an option for each ticket type you have configured. Users select a ticket type to open a ticket - no commands required.

Panel Configuration

Panels can be created from the Panels tab in the dashboard or with /panel create. Each panel has the following options:

OptionDescription
ChannelWhere the panel embed will be posted
TitleThe heading shown in the embed
DescriptionSupporting text displayed under the title (optional)
ColorThe accent color of the embed border
Ticket TypesWhich ticket types to include in this panel's dropdown menu

Panel Options

Each option in the panel's dropdown menu corresponds to one ticket type. The option's label and emoji come from the ticket type's own configuration. You can include some or all of your ticket types on any given panel. A single server can have multiple panels deployed in different channels.

Keeping Panels Up to Date

Tip

When you update a ticket type's name, label, or emoji in the dashboard, any panels containing that type are automatically refreshed. You do not need to recreate the panel.

To change the panel's title, description, or embed color, use /panel edit with the panel message ID, or update it from the Panels tab in the dashboard.

Multiple Panels

You can deploy multiple panels across different channels. This is useful for separating support topics by audience - for example, a panel in #billing-support for payment questions and a separate panel in #technical-support for bug reports.

Removing a Panel

Delete the panel message in Discord, or remove it from the Panels tab in the dashboard. Deleting a panel does not affect any currently open tickets.