How to send notification email with Hold Date and Hold Reason data from Incident?

Products

• ServiceDesk

Issue/Introduction

How to send notification email with Hold Date and Hold Reason data from Incident? These values do not seem to be available when creating an Email template for using in rules in Hold-related rulesets.

Environment

ServiceDesk 8.5

Cause

There are no variables available for On Hold Date and On Hold Reason (ImIncidentTicket.HoldDate and ImIncidentTicket.HoldReason in the database) when creating an Email Template.

Resolution

These values have been added as Email template variables in ServiceDesk 8.5 RU1.