Creating custom roles and assigning agents

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  • john_weng 翁維澤

    Hi I'm using Professional now, but is interested in Enterprise plan. 

    About Analytics (if Explore is enabled)
    May I know what's the different between "Explore permissions" and "Reports tool in Support"?

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  • Josh
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi John!
     
    Thank you for reaching out to us.
     
    Explore Permission means features available for Zendesk Explore (if available). While Reports tool in Support is just a basic overview.
     
    Zendesk Explore is the latest reporting tool we have where in you can create custom reports and check default reports for your account.
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  • Clayful

    Hi! How can I set up a role that provides access to the chat product?

    I set up the role to have these permissions but the chat box (below) remains unchecked. I need to provision accounts to new agents in bulk (through Rippling) and need to be able to provide access to the Chat product as a default. 

    Thanks!

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  • DJ Buenavista Jr.
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Maria,
     
    Thank you for reaching out to Zendesk Support.
     
    In regards to your concern, you can create custom roles for Zendesk Chat from the Chat dashboard itself, and go into Settings > Roles. It's separate from the custom role that you have created for Support, Guide, and Talk. 
     

     
    Kindly check the screenshot above on where you can access the following. Make sure that you are in the Zendesk Chat page/product. You can go there by clicking the Zendesk product icon from the upper right and then selecting Chat. You will be redirected to the Chat dashboard/page, and from there go to Settings, and you will be able to see the Roles option.
     
    Thank you and have a wonderful day ahead!
     
     
     
    Kind regards,
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  • Allen Lai | Head of CX at Otter.ai

    I'd like to create a custom role similar to a Light Agent, where they won't use up a license. Which permissions do not constitute an agent and therefore will not use up a license? Thanks!

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  • Vitor Leepkaln

    Hi @...,

    I have the same question as Maria, and would love to get your input.

    We're also looking to automate the user creation process and currently chat comes disabled for all new Support users and we'd like to change that. Is my understanding that needs to be setup from the Chat custom roles side rather than the Support side? Similarly to Maria's, our users are coming with Explore and Guide enabled by default, but Chat doesn't.

     

    Thank you!

     

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  • Darenne
    Zendesk Customer Care

    Hi Allen Lai | Head of CX at Otter.ai

    We understand that you wish to create a custom role similar to a Light agent. However, the Light Agent role is a special role that cannot be replicated or cloned. This is why when you created a custom role, it treats it as a full agent unlike a light agent. Unfortunately, this is hardcoded in the system and we are unable to create another role type similar to Light Agents.

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  • Marvin Fuerst

    Hello,

    I would like to restrict agents from adding tags manually but still have macros apply tags. Is there any configuration that would let us implement this? 

    Thank you!

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  • Диана Зубок

    Hi team,
    I have the same question as Marvin and would love to get your input.

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  • William Grote

    Since you cant create  a custom role or clone Light Agent role, is there anyway to have certain light agent 'groups' belong to other groups, to make management of ticket visibility easier, rather than setting access one person / one group, at a time?

     

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering

    Hi Marvin Fuerst and Диана Зубок,

    This is a note from Enabling and disabling ticket tags.

    Note: Disabling manual ticket tagging only removes the ability to add tags via the ticket interface. Agents, admins, and integrations can still add, remove, or modify tags on tickets via the Update Ticket API.

    As it turns out, it's only possible via API.

    Hi William,

    Upon checking, a support ticket has already been created for this concern. Based on the recommendation, nesting group is not yet available in Zendesk. You can still check our Marketplace for any apps with the similar capability.

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  • Jay Fallon

    Hello,

    I am interested in an option where we can give macro view access to our agents. To my knowledge this is not an option without enabling them to create/edit/publish macros. The problem I am trying to solve is to have a way for the agents to search existing macros and view the copy within them.  Currently, we house a separate libarary in Confluence to address this. Any assistance would be great. 

    Thanks!

     

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager
    Hey Jay,

    I'm afraid there's no way to accomplish what you're looking for without giving agents the ability to create/edit/publish macros. 
     
    I would recommend creating a feedback post in our Feedback - Ticketing System (Support) for our Product Managers to review.
     
    Thanks for taking the time to share this with us!
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  • Chin Sin

    Hi Zendesk team,

    Is there a way to create a service account? This service account is used only for API calls and cannot be used to login.

    Regards,

    Chin Sin

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  • Jupete Manitas
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Ong Chin Sin, thanks for writing in! 
    Natively, there is no service account for API purposes. In Zendesk, you must be a certified user (agent/admin) when using the API and the best practice would be to create a one agent seat or service seat. For example, your use case is for integration, for each integration, we would then recommend generating an individual Token or OAuth per the requirements of the App/Integration.
     
    More details are described here for your reference: How can I authenticate API requests? 
     
    Thank you!
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  • James Ratcliffe

    Hi,

    I don't see these two permissions on my account:

    • Manage groups
    • Manage organizations

    I do see Manage user fields and Manage organization fields. Is this normal?

    Thanks,

    James

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  • Gabriel Manlapig
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi James,
     
    I can confirm that the permissions to manage group or organizations, including assigning users to organizations is baked in the "Can add or modify groups & organizations" permission setting:

    I do understand how the documentation can be confusing so let me take that up with our relevant internal teams here so they can look further into it. Thanks.
     
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  • Rayella Bergman

    Hello, is there a way to give access to the Apps and integrations menu?  More granularly, I would like to grant API access. 

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  • Christine
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Rayella,
     
    Depending on the channels that have been enabled for your account, agents may also be allowed to do any of the following: 

    Manage channels and extensions: Manage channels including email, social messaging apps, and other modes of communication. Extensions include targets, webhooks, and integrations.
     
    You can enable this permission under Channels > Manage channels and permissions.
     

     
    Just note that custom roles don't have permissions to the following: Install apps, as outlined in our article: Permissions that agents with custom roles can't have.
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  • Rayella Bergman

    I do have this enabled but it still doesn't appear to grant API access.  How can I enable that?

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  • Christine
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Rayella,

    Verified users can make API requests, this would depend on what type of update they're trying to make (depending on the permissions on their roles) but basically, if they need to update the ticket, user, etc. they should be able to do so as long as they're authenticated users. See How can I authenticate API requests?

    If you are referring to the API page in the Admin Center, only the account owner and Zendesk admins have access to this page. Although it is not something you can enable/allow in custom role permissions, users can still make requests via API. 


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  • Rayella Bergman

    Thank you!

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  • Steven Aranaga

    If I clone the Light Agent role and make no changes to the permissions, then assign someone to the role, it consumes a full agent license.  Why is that?

    I have employees that I want light agents and can see all tickets, then I have partners that will be light agents but should only see orgs they are a part of.

    I can't do that if restricted to the one role.

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  • Michelle Kettleborough

    Is there any way to delete a role? We have some that have become redundant over the years. 

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  • Gabriel Manlapig
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Steven,
     
    Yes, this is actually expected since all cloned roles will be considered custom-roles. Only system-created "Light Agent" roles will allow you to create and add users without taking one of your agent seats. Any user within a custom-role would require an agent seat.
     
    I hope this answers your question. Thank you!
     
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  • Darren Taylor

    Is there any way to give an agent read-only access to another group's tickets?

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  • Gabriel Manlapig
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Darren,
     
    I'm afraid, there is no option for you to have full access to one group, but only viewing access to another group. Once you are in a group, you will have access to the tickets and be able to modify it.
     
    The only role that has viewing permission for tickets is Light Agents. But, they can add internal notes which in your case would not be useful due to the fact that you want these specific agents to only have read-only access to another group's tickets.
     
    I can imagine, that this is not the answer that you have been looking for, therefore I would recommend you to leave Feedback in our Community. Our Teams are frequently looking through the posts in order to get ideas on future additions to the Software. The more a votes a post gets, the higher the chance that the feature will be added in the future.
     
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  • Darren Taylor

    Thanks Gabriel.

    Light agent would work, but I don't think we have access to it on our Enterprise plan.

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  • Rajesrawarao Devavarapu

    Hello All, 

    Can we create ReadOnly custom role in Zendesk. So that users who are assigned to this role can only have the read access to all the modules.

    Thanks,

    Rajesh

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  • Mike Lenehan

    Hello Zendesk,

    I'm not seeing a way to enable custom role which includes ability to add tags to Organization.  Can only Admins do this?

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