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Community tip: track repeat ticket submitters Article

Community tip: track repeat ticket submitters

Keeping track of customers who submit multiple tickets is great way to gauge things like customer…

Customizing Zendesk Support: Best practices for UX Article

Customizing Zendesk Support: Best practices for UX

In Part 2 of our Customizing Your Zendesk series, we look at how some of our…

Tip Of The Week: Understanding Trigger Conditions Article

Tip Of The Week: Understanding Trigger Conditions

There are two types of conditions available in Zendesk – all conditions and any conditions –…

Tip of the Week: Saving Time with Mail API Commands Article

Tip of the Week: Saving Time with Mail API Commands

My, how times have changed! We’ve updated our Mail API a lot since this was posted.…

Tip of the week: Showing who’ has been cc’’d in email notifications Article

Tip of the week: Showing who’ has been cc’’d in email notifications

Have you ever wished that you could allow end-users to see who’s been CC’d on a…

Tip of the Week: Using business hours in your triggers and notifications Article

Tip of the Week: Using business hours in your triggers and notifications

[Editor’s note: you’ve unearthed an artifact from the old days. For the most up to date…

Tip of the Week: Automatic Ticket Tagging Article

Tip of the Week: Automatic Ticket Tagging

Tags are one of the most powerful tools in Zendesk. With them you can load your…

Tip of the Week: Nesting Fields Article

Tip of the Week: Nesting Fields

We recently had a customer who wanted their end users to be able to route tickets…

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Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Agent Collision

You’ve probably seen this scenario before. You’re working on a ticket, selecting the relevant fields, making…

Keep javascript libraries from colliding Article

Keep javascript libraries from colliding

Namespacing Javascript libraries can often be used in ways the authors did not foresee. Global variables…

Default triggers explained Article

Default triggers explained

Triggers are business rules that are automatically executed in response to certain events that have occurred…

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Tip of the Week: Email Support for Two Different Products

It is a common scenario for one company to produce more than one product – a…

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Tip of the Week: Escalating Your Tickets With Groups

Please visit this article for the most up to date version of this tip: Escalating Your…

Tip of the Week: Calculate Your Average Resolution Time using CSV exports Article

Tip of the Week: Calculate Your Average Resolution Time using CSV exports

As we described in Tip of the Week: Review Ticket Resolution Times with Reports, you can…

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Tip of the Week: Automations vs. Triggers – When To Use What

Recently, we shared two tips on some automated functions within Zendesk. We described how to use…

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Tip of the Week: Organize Incoming Tickets with Multiple Email Addresses

Two important aspects of building your help desk workflow are Collecting and Processing your incoming tickets.…

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Tip of the Week: Use Automations to Send Alerts When a Ticket Needs a Reply

The keys to outstanding customer support are simple to understand, but as anyone who’s handled customer…