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Run a safety check before merging two help desk tickets
Confirm identity, scope, ownership, and promises before combining related requests.
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Similar subjects do not prove that two tickets represent the same need. Compare the requester, affected service, timing, symptom, impact, permissions, and requested outcome.
Choose the surviving record, preserve both histories, transfer open actions and customer checkpoints, and make the communication owner visible before changing status.
Do not merge records when doing so would cross customer, tenant, privacy, legal, security, or access boundaries. Use a permitted relationship marker when context must remain separate.
Audit merged tickets for lost replies, missing attachments, and reopened work. If the same false match recurs, change the detection rule or confirmation step.