Setting up Guided mode

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  • Miles Dunn

    How can I give other roles permissions to see the skipped tickets on the "Play Only" tab of the user's profile? Right now only admins can see this tab but I'd like managers to be able to see it too. 

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  • Dave Dyson
    Hi MIles, at present only Admins can see skipped tickets from other users (agents can only see their own skipped tickets). Some other users have requested the ability to grant permission for seeing skipped tickets to non-Admins as well in the comments thread of this product feedback post, so I'd recommend that you upvote the post and add your use case to the comments as well: Reporting - Skipped tickets within the "play-mode"
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  • Stacey

    I have seen agents utilize the search function and filter by "new" status tickets to choose which tickets to answer.  Is there any way to limit the search function to prevent this type of behavior?

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  • Dave Dyson
    Hi Stacey –
     
    I don't think there's a way you can limit an agent's ability to search like that. That's certainly a clever way to cherry-pick. 
     
    For what it's worth, I wrote a blog post about cherry-picking, some different reasons behind it, and ways to address each motivating factor from a management perspective: The four C’s of cherry-picking
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  • MAC

    Would it be possible to add a feature or setting within each view so that we can choose which views the guided mode feature will appear on? 

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager
    Hey Mac,
     
    I'd recommend creating a feature post in our Feedback - Ticketing System (Support) topic as that's where our product managers actively monitor user feedback. You can use the following template when creating your feedback post as well: Product Feedback Post Template
     
    Thanks for taking the time to share this with us!
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  • Daniel Cross

    For Skipped reason box, is there functionality to create and display a list of reasons that we can surface for Agents (not just an open text box) - this would allow us to create a more consistent process, easier to look for trends, and provide the Agent with a more efficient way to note a reason and move on to the next ticket.

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  • Dave Dyson
    Hi Dan, there isn't, but that's an interesting idea – for visibility to our product team, would you mind posting your use case to our Feedback - Ticketing System (Support) topic, using this template?
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  • Nicole

    Just wanted to throw this link in here to the feature request for picking which views you'd like in guided mode, hoping to make it easier for others to find and upvote if they stumble upon this article. 

     

    https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4563870277018-Guided-Mode-suggested-enhancement?page=1#community_comment_4755642307354

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  • Dave Dyson
    Thanks for sharing the link, Nicole!
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  • Lala

    Hello. Is there a way to customize the Play feature to start with the oldest tickets first? When I test it out on my end, it's not starting with the oldest open tickets in the queue. Thank you!

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  • Nicole

    Lala I was having the same issue. What solved it for me was editing the view sort order from the Admin Center. Hope it helps. 

     

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  • Dave Dyson
    thanks for sharing your solution, Nicole - yep, that sounds like the way to do it!
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  • Lala

    Thank you so much, Nicole. That was very helpful. 

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  • Camilo

    This feature would be better if tickets that have already been assigned to an agent would be excluded from the logic when the next agent hits next, and not only when an agent is actively looking to a ticket. 

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  • Annelies Van der Sanden

    Hi Camilo, we solved this by changing the view to unassigned tickets and tickets assigned to the active user only

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  • Kyle Lessard

    Is there a character limit in the text box field when skipping tickets?

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  • Gabriel Manlapig
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Kyle,
     
    The character limit looks to be 65k characters in the text box field when skipping tickets. Tried this on my end, and if you exceed 65k characters, the ticket will not appear on the review skipped tickets under team member's user profile.

    I hope this answer your question. Thank you!
     
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  • Scott C.

    Hey ZD team,

     

    Is there any way to tell when an agent clears a view fully? Is there a trigger or anything that can tell us when a view is completed of all tickets?

     

    Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!

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  • Nara
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Scott, thanks for the question. At this time, there is no way to integrate a Business Rule like a Trigger into a View's completion. Functionally, a View works in a similar way to a search, where it shows tickets that match a set of criteria, but it itself does not store any trackable values that can be actioned on in the same way a ticket can be. In other words, it is currently not possible via native functionality to report/indicate when a View is cleared aside from viewing it directly.
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  • Cory Truesdell

    Question - If an agent is flying thru tickets in guided mode and a customer replies to a ticket they've previously been assigned to, will that ticket jump to the front of the line for that assigned agent? 

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  • Jim
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Cory! 

    In the event that the customer (also known as end-user) responds to a ticket that's assigned to an agent, then ideally, the ticket would show up in the default views, namely "Your unsolved tickets", "All unsolved tickets", and "Recently updated tickets" (shown in the sample below).


    Furthermore, those recently updated tickets would ideally show up on top of those mentioned ticket views, given that they are formatted with the Column "Updated" and it's set to "Descending" order, which is arranged from the latest or most recent one to the oldest (explained this article and shown in the sample below).



     
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  • Henry

    Hello team,

    I have a question regarding the viewing time in Play mode. I have received several complaints from my agents regarding their tickets being taken over by another agent while they were researching the case. I was wondering if an agent opens a new tab in their browser while researching, would the system automatically mark them as inactive in the Zendesk tab within a certain time and allow the ticket to be given to another agent? Our goal is to handle tickets immediately, without assigning the ticket in the open status to the agent.

    Thanks

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  • Noly Maron Unson
    Zendesk Customer Care

    Hi Henry,

    There are certain scenarios that may have contributed to this. You can check Troubleshooting agent collision in Play mode for a detailed guide on those scenarios.

    Hope this helps.

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  • Rudolph Beaton
    Zendesk Luminary

    Hey Zendesk team,

    Heads up that putting agents in Guided Mode removes their access to the suspended queue. This was a surprise to us and is not documented here. Please add to the article! Thank you!

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  • Glen Schneider

    Silly question but how can you just solve a ticket in guided mode without adding a reply? 

    We get tickets sometimes that just contain an attachment and we don't need to reply. 

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  • Marius Gavril

    In the event that Light Agents are viewing a ticket, that ticket does not get served to the agent that's in Play Mode due to collision detection. Is there a way to bypass this shortcoming?

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  • Christine Diego
    Zendesk Customer Care
    Hi Marius,
     
    It is expected that if a Light Agent is viewing a ticket that it will be skipped in Play/Guided mode. We currently do not differentiate between the light agent and normal agent, but you I would encourage you to post this as feature request in our feedback forum. We truly value customer feedback and your voice and votes in the forums help influence future Zendesk functionality.
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  • Leslie Garcia

    "You reached the end of the view playlist.

    Looks like you've played through all the tickets, there's no more left in this view"

    Why are we seeing this message when using Play button?

    Thank you so much.

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