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Access a ticket:
Enter the ticket number into the Search box for direct access. Browse to it via Quick Search -> <queue name> -> ticket.

Change the status of a ticket:
Open or view the ticket. Click basics -> Choose new status from the Status dropdown list. Click Save Changes

Take a ticket
Open or view the ticket. Click Take from the top navigation bar

Resolve a ticket
Open or view the ticket. Click Resolve from the top navigation bar. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown list. Enter solution in the Message field. Click Submit. This method will notify requestors and watchers.

Reply to a ticket without resolving it
Open or view the ticket. Click Reply from the top navigation bar. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown list. Enter message in the Message field. Click Submit. The reply will go to requestors and watchers.

Comment on a ticket
Open or view the ticket. Click Comment from the top navigation bar. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown list. Enter message in the Message field. Click Submit. The reply will go to watchers. It will NOT go to the requestor.

Resolve a ticket and quote from requestor's text
Open or view the ticket. Scroll down to the relevant history section. Click Reply on the top right of the relevant history section. This will quote the contents of that history section in the message field. Choose status of Resolved from Status dropdown. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown. Edit quoted text appropriately and enter solution in the Message field. Click Submit. This method will notify requestors and watchers with appropriately quoted text.

Reply to a ticket without resolving it and quote from requestor's text
Open or view the ticket. Scroll down to the relevant history section. Click Reply on the top right of the relevant history section. This will quote the contents of that history section in the message field. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown. Edit quoted text appropriately and enter solution in the Message field. Click Submit. This method will notify requestors and watchers with appropriately quoted text.

Comment on a ticket and quote from requestor's text
Open or view the ticket. Scroll down to the relevant history section. Click Comment on the top right of the relevant history section. This will quote the contents of that history section in the message field. Choose your userid from the Owner: dropdown. In the Update Type: dropdown change from Response to requestors to Comments (Not sent to requestors). Edit quoted text appropriately and enter comments in the Message field. Click Submit. The reply will go to watchers. It will NOT go to the requestor.

Silently resolve a ticket (no notification to other watchers or requestor)
Open or view the ticket. Click basics -> Choose resolved from the Status dropdown list. Click Save Changes

Bounce a ticket to another queue
You have to be a member of both queues to do this. Open or view the ticket. Click Basics. From the Queue dropdown choose the queue you want to bounce the ticket to. Click Save Changes

Assign a ticket to someone else
You can only assign tickets you own or are unowned to someone else within the same queue. Open or view the ticket. Click people. Choose the new owner from the Owner dropdown.

Get a ticket back I mistakenly assigned to someone else.
Steal it. You can only steal tickets from people in the same queue. If a ticket is owed by someone else a Steal option will appear in the top navigation bar of the Ticket interface.

Merge two tickets into one
Do this when a call has mistakenly been submitted twice or the root cause of a number of tickets is the same. Open or view the ticket you want to merge into another. Click Links. In the Merge into: field enter the ticket number you want to merge the ticket into. The ticket history of the merged ticket will record the merge and who implemented it.

Merge a number of tickets into one
Repeat the above procedure.

I can't remember which link does what in the ticket management interface.
Click Jumbo - it will concatenate the ticket management screens of Basics, Dates People and Links