thought of something else...it should obviously be able to do email...at least email the help person that it gets assigned to....then maybe a way to set up some kind of hierarchy for notifications....so if you set your help ticket at level 1 severity the email goes to tech1, and if you set the severity to 2 then it goes to tech2 etc... and maybe some timers...so if an issue is at level1 and hasn't been resolved or checked in X days it automatically emails tech1 to remind them and/or emails tech2 so that the request can be escalated up the chain automatically if no one at a lower level has touched it yet