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Last Updated: 2024-08-23
Steps: Set Up Email Case Creation

Steps: Set Up Email Case Creation

You can set up email case creation for both workers who have access to Workday and external users who don't have access to Workday.
When you enable email case creation:
  • Workers and external users can create new cases by email.
  • Case solvers can view cases created by email in the Help Workspace.
  • Case solvers can block external users to prevent unwanted case creation access.
  1. Access the
    Edit Tenant Setup - Help
    task.
    As you complete the
    Email Case Creation
    section, select:
    • Email case creation for workers only
      so only workers with access to Workday Help can create cases by email.
    • Email case creation for workers and external users
      so both workers who have access to Workday Help and external users who don't have access to Workday can create cases by email.
    • Use the Original Sender as the Case Creator
      so Workday creates a case for the contact who initially sent the email (the original sender).
    • Always use From Email as the Case Creator
      so Workday creates a case for the contact who most recently forwarded or generated the email (the email address in the From Email field).
    Security:
    Set up: Help Case Management
    domain in the Help functional area.
  2. Set up email ingestion to process inbound email. See Steps: Set Up Email Ingestion.
    In the
    Configure Email Ingestion Settings
    task, select
    Help Case Creation
    and add an email ingestion receiving domain.
    You must use separate email receiving domains for the
    Help Case Creation
    and
    Help Case Reply
    notification types.
    Workday recommends using the Workday-provided receiving domain because it doesn't require any setup for your company. It also eliminates the additional configurations steps that customer-provided receiving domains need after a non-Production refresh. If you set up your own email ingestion receiving domain, you must complete additional steps. See Steps: Set Up Customer-Provided Receiving Domains.
    When you use the Workday-provided receiving domain, you must reselect it after every non-Production refresh using the
    Configure Email Ingestion Settings
    task in your non-Production tenant.
  3. You can set up email case communication so case owners can communicate with case solvers by email after creating a case.