As described in About organizations and groups, groups are used to create collections of team members based on criteria those team members have in common. All agents must belong to at least one group, and they can belong to multiple groups.
Viewing groups
Before you modify a group, you may want to review your list of existing groups.
- In Admin Center, click the People icon (
) in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
Editing groups
- In Admin Center, click the People icon (
) in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
- Select the edit link next to the group you want to edit.
- Make your changes. You can:
- Add agents or remove agents from groups by selecting or deselecting their names.
- Change the group name by typing directly into the Group name bar.
- Click Make default group to make this group the one that all new agents are automatically added to.
- Add agents or remove agents from groups by selecting or deselecting their names.
- Click Update Group.
Deleting groups
You can delete groups you no longer need. If the group is set as any team member's default group, you cannot delete it. You must change their default group first (see Changing the default group for your account or a team member).
Deleting a group has implications of course. Any business rules you set up using the group you deleted will no longer function properly. The group will be removed from any tickets it was assigned to along with any team members in the group. The ticket will return to unassigned. You can see these updates in the ticket audits.
- In Admin Center, click
People in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
- Select groups to view all of your current groups.
- Click the edit link next to the group you want to delete.
- Select Delete.
- A message will appear asking if you are sure you want to delete the group, select delete again to delete the group.
13 Comments
Hey team,
Is there an easy way to check if any business rule is linked to the group you are about to delete? Or do you have to go into each type of business rule and manually check each rule for that group?
Deleting a group has implications of course. Any business rules you set up using the group you deleted will no longer function properly...
Thank you for reaching out to us. For this kind of scenario, you will really need to check if there is a trigger associated with the group. We currently do not have a way easier than this BUT I can say your feedback is great and if you have the time please post it HERE.
Best,
Hello,
If a ticket is closed, I assume that deleting a group won't affect this and should still be able to be reported on?
Best Wishes
Hi Thomas,
Yes correct, Closed tickets are locked. They cannot be reopened or updated in any way. So in your case if a ticket is closed and you deleted the assigned group it won't affect the ticket and will still be able to report on. I hope that answer your question.
If a group is deleted, can agents with a role that can only view tickets in their group, see the closed tickets? These agents were part of the group that was deleted.
We updated the agent ticket group strategy. And agents lost access to tickets in the "old" group.
Unfortunately closed tickets will not be available to those agents when the group was deleted. Since their permission is can only view tickets in their group, they cannot view those tickets since the group was deleted. Tickets will be unassigned from that group once it was deleted.
Thank you and have a wonderful day ahead!
Kind regards,
DJ Buenavista Jr.
That is a horrible design. We recently changed the group structure and now the agents lost access to all the tickets that had access to prior. And there is no resolution to get them access back.
If you cannot update closed tickets, then when groups are deactivated agents should keep access they had prior to the change. In my personal opinion.
Like why can't groups be deactivated like everything else (views, triggers, automations, macros). This way agents could still retain access to closed tickets they should be able to see. And the business is still able to make changes to the group structure to support the current needs.
Unfortunately, tickets with Closed status cannot be modified or edited anymore. This is how the Zendesk ticket function was built, and it's a native function.
Also, those tickets with Closed status that were assigned before will no longer be part of that group since the group has been deleted. Now, since you agents only has access to view tickets on their own groups, technically they will not be able to view other tickets and those closed tickets will not be re-assigned or cannot be re-assigned since they are already closed. You can check our article, Can I edit closed tickets? for more information about this.
Thank you and have a wonderful day ahead!
Kind regards,
DJ Buenavista Jr. - I get the functionality the way it was built. I'm saying this is a really bad user experience for accounts that restrict agent access to tickets by the groups they are in. Zendesk should look into making the software better for this use case.
Option 1 delete the group no longer used and agents lose access to tickets
Option 2 keep groups that are no longer needed. 1)possibility of agents incorrectly assigning to the "old" group 2) cannot clean up the long list of groups
For the best visibility to our product team, can you post your idea about deactivating Groups to our Feedback - Ticketing System (Support), using this template to format your feedback? That way, other users can upvote your post and add their own use cases. Thanks!
Dave Dyson thanks I posted the idea to the Feedback Ticketing System (Support)
Didn't see the link to the template, but I think I got all those details in the request, just in a slightly different order.
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