Explore recipe: Count of tickets for a custom ticket field value

This Explore report provides a quick way to see the number of tickets in your account broken down by the value set for a custom ticket field. It uses one metric and an attribute.

What you'll need

Skill level: Easy

Time Required: 10 minutes

• Zendesk Explore Professional or Enterprise
• Editor or Admin permissions (see Adding users to Explore)
• Ticket data in Zendesk Support

How to create the report in Explore

Use the following steps to create this report in Explore.

1. In Zendesk Explore, click the query () icon.
2. In the Queries library, click New query.
3. On the Choose a dataset page, click Support > Tickets > Support: Tickets, then click Apply. Query builder opens.
4. Next, you need to add a metric. A metric is the thing you want to measure, in this case, the number of tickets. In the Metrics section, click Add.
5. From the list of metrics, choose Tickets > Tickets, then click Apply. Notice that COUNT(Tickets) is displayed in the Metrics panel and Explore automatically displays the count of tickets in the main section of the page.

   

6. Next, add the attribute that will break down the number of tickets by the custom ticket field. In the Rows section, click Add.
7. From the list of attributes, choose Ticket custom fields > [ticket field name], then click Apply.
8. By default, Explore chose a column chart to best display the data. To change this, click the Visualization type () icon.
9. The query was, by default named New query. Click the New query text and replace it with a title of your own.
10. Finally, click Save.