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Contact answer via email to Closed case

If a contact answer to a closed case creatio will create a new case, 

but not give much context in the new case that it was created from a pre-existing case.

Is there an easy way to make the new case linked to the old case via configuration?

Or is it necessary to create a business process  that reads all emails and searchs for case id, etc and then link in the Business Process?

 

Thanks,

Luis

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Hello!
Out of the box, when an incoming email matches a previously closed case, Creatio typically treats it as a new case and does not automatically keep a reference to the original case. There isn’t a standard setting that will automatically link the newly created case back to the closed one (for example, by filling a “Parent case/Related case” field).

What you can do
1) Manual option (no customization): If you have a “Parent case” / “Related case” field in your case page (depends on your configuration), you can manually set the original case there after creation.

2) Automation (requires customization): To link them automatically, you would need custom logic (business process and/or mailbox processing customization) that, on incoming email/case creation, identifies the original case (e.g., by case number in the subject/body, message headers like In-Reply-To/References, or stored conversation identifier) and then writes the link to a dedicated field on the new case.

Thanks for the reply Alona,

It is a fairly common request from customers so I believe it should be something more of a configuration/setting

I'll build the Automation via business process but it should be easy for the ootb code to have that as a parameter that could be set.

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