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Organizations are typically collections of your end users, but they can also include team members. The Organizations page in Zendesk Support provides a focused place to see, create, and manage your organizations.
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Accessing the Organizations page
Admins and agents in custom roles can access the Organizations page to create and manage organizations.
-
In Support, click the
Organizations icon (
) in the sidebar.
The Organizations page opens and you can view all of your organizations.
You can also take any of the following actions: - For help finding organizations, you can search or sort the organizations list.
Controlling agent access to the Organizations page (Enterprise only)
Agents must be in a custom role to access and manage organizations.
- Create a new custom role or edit an existing custom role, then configure
the following settings in the People section:
- Select Add, edit, and delete for all end users
- Turn on Add, update, and delete organizations
- Assign the agents who need access to the Organizations page to the custom role.
Finding an organization
The list of organizations can be keyword searched by properties and sorted by name and the last updated date.
Searching organizations
Searching by name is the quickest way to find an organization. When you search for organizations, the results are sorted by relevance and can't be sorted using the Name and Last Updated columns.
To search organizations
- In Support, click the
Organizations icon (
) in the sidebar.
- Enter an organization's name or partial name in the search
bar.
Alternatively, you can search by other organization properties, such as custom fields. For example, if you enter created<2021-05-01 in the search bar, all organizations created after the specified date are listed.
For a list of all search parameters you can use to search for organizations, see Searching organizations.
Sorting the list of organizations
You can sort the list of organizations by name and the last date they were updated. If you sort the list before searching, the set sort order is not retained in the search results and is instead sorted by relevance to the search. Also, the list will need to be sorted again if you log out or refresh the page.
To sort the list of organizations by name
- In Support, click the
Organizations icon (
) in the sidebar.
- At the top of the Name column, click the sort icon (
) to sort the list alphabetically in ascending order (
) or descending order (
).
To sort the list of organizations by last updated date
- In Support, click the
Organizations icon (
) in the sidebar.
- At the top of the Last Updated column, click the sort icon (
) to sort the list by most recently updated to least recently updated (
) or vice versa (
).
Viewing an organization
Admins and agents in custom roles can view organizations.
- In Support, click the
Organizations icon (
) in the sidebar.
- Find the organization you want to view and click its name to open a detailed
view of the organization.
Each organization shows the number of tickets and users associated with the organization. It can take a few minutes for Zendesk Support to index new tickets and users. If they don't appear in your organization details, wait a few minutes and try again.
Turning the Organizations page on or off
The Organizations page is turned on by default, but can be turned off by an admin if you're not using organizations to manage your users. When the page is turned off, the Organizations icon is hidden from the Support sidebar for all team members.
- In Admin Center, click
Workspaces in the sidebar, then select Agent tools > Agent interface.
- Select the Enable Organizations list checkbox to turn the page on or off.
- Click Save.
If you don't see the Organizations icon appear in the Support sidebar after turning it on, try refreshing the page.
59 comments
Brettany Rhodes
I have a couple of agents that do not have the Organization list in the sidebar. We have refreshed their pages and it still does not load. Any suggestions?
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Jacquelyn Brewer
Thanks for your feedback @.... Currently, the page is only visible to admins. Agents with permissions to add and edit organizations can do so from the top bar in Support.
To create an organization as an agent
To search for organizations as an agent
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Brettany Rhodes
Thank you for the quick response
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Jeff (he/him)
Can you please update this article to better reflect that it's limited to Administrators? Even in the article itself you've written, "When the page is disabled, the Organizations icon is hidden from the Support sidebar for all team members (agents and admins)," which is very confusing. Thank you.
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Brett Bowser
Thanks for pointing this out for us! I'll reach out to our documentation team to have this article updated.
Cheers :)
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Jeff (he/him),
Thanks for reaching out to us! The 'Organizations' page is actually visible to both Agents & Admins.
However, for this page to be visible to Agents, the Agent's Role Permissions (accessed via "Admin Centre > People > Roles") should have the following box checked:
We are currently working on making these permissions clearer & easier to understand, in the meantime, I hope this clarifies who the page is visible to.
Thank you!
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Jeff (he/him)
Thanks Pratishtha, but I do not have People > Roles in my Admin Center. Perhaps we're on a different plan and that's the issue with this documentation?
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Scott Williams
Pratishtha, it would be ideal if agents could see organizations but not edit in the professional tier. An example of why this is beneficial, in the organization section for particular customers we use custom fields to track the support contract number as well as a link to the corresponding SharePoint location for all of the client information. i would prefer not to grant admin access to my support staff so this would be an ideal work fix to this. Do you think this is something could be integrated?
Thank you,
Scott Williams
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Jeff - that would be correct, People > Roles settings are not available on all the plans. Thank you for highlighting this, we'll definitely update the documentation soon!
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Scott Williams - thank you for reaching out & sharing an example use case! At the moment, we don't have a permission set that allows for an agent to "view-only" all orgs. We are looking to improve this and potentially introduce this type of permission in the future. Please let me know if you'd be open to chatting with us about this further and I'll reach out to you via email.
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Scott Williams
@..., Absolutely, always up to lend a hand when it comes to product development.
thank you,
Scott Williams
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Rita Gleason
Why can't I get my Organizations to show in alphabetical order now that you moved them to their own tab? This is causing us too much work to cross check our 100+ orgs now. Please advise. Thanks.
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Rita Gleason thanks for reaching out to us, we're currently working on making Organizations sortable and I'm happy to say you'll be able to do this very soon, within the next month or so for sorting on dates (last updated/created at), and soon after on names
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Rita Gleason
Please tell the product team it is more important to have the name sort before the date sort from a Client admin perspective. Thanks.
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Pratishtha Nahata
Rita Gleason I'll definitely flag it with them. Thank you!
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GS Admin
Hi ,
we have a lot of organisations in our zendesk , and we also add tags to orgs when they are created .
Is there a way where i could generate a report in explore for the orgs which have a particular tag added in the organizations tab?
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Dan Moore
We also would like to have the name sort option in the Organizations Page. Additionally it would be nice to see filter capabilities based on Groups, Organization Status (Active vs. In-Active.)
Thanks Rita Gleason for the recommendation.
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John Brunker
It would also be great if we could search/filter by tags.
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Jeannette Räntfors
We as well would like to have the name sort option in the Organizations Page. As it is now, it's rather difficult for us having an overview of active vs in-active organizations, as we put an 'X-' before inactive organizations in order to sort them out (displayed last in list), when the list isn't sorted on names anymore.
How does the progress look for sorting on name on Organizations Page?
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Dan Moore, John Brunker and Jeannette Räntfors,
Thanks so much for your feedback!
We're currently working on having Organizations be sortable by name and as the default sorted column - we expect to have this in the product soon.
Filtering by attribute is on our roadmap as well - but much further out. For now, you could use the search capability as a filter, such as "tags:premium" to look for orgs with the premium tag - there are more examples in search reference docs.
Thanks again,
Pari
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David Nguyen
We don't have the "roles" in our plan, but still the "Enable Organization list" option. But enabling it or not doesn't change anything, in both cases agents can't access the Organization page.
I would think that enabling organization list would allow agents to access it (it says: "The Organisation list allows agents and other team members to view all organisations in one place. They can find it in their primary navigation.", which in my understanding enables agents to access the organization page)
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Russell Braden
Hi, we have agents who provide support to end users in a B2B context. As a result, we've created Organizations and provide our clients' end users access to a Help Center that is dedicated to their Organization. With that configuration in place, when end users create tickets, the tickets show up within the Organization page in Support, which assists our internal team with tracking tickets submitted by our various clients.
What I can't figure out is how an Agent on our internal team can create a ticket and associate it with a specific organization, so the ticket shows up as if an end user from that Organization had submitted it. Would someone be able to help me figure out how to do that?
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi David Nguyen - thanks for sharing your feedback! You're absolutely right, if the Role permission is not set to "add or modify organizations", they will not be able to see the page.
To set the Role permissions, you would need to select the Role in Admin Centre, go the the 'People' section, select "Add, edit, and delete for all end users" and then check the box for "Can add or modify groups and organisations".
It appears that the default "agent" role does not have this Role permission switched on, so they will not see this page. I'll work with our documentation team to update this article to state it explicitly.
I'm keen to understand more about whether there's a use case for your agents to view this list without the editing permissions on Organizations - I'll reach out to you via email if you'd be available to chat with us.
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Matt Bagnara
Hi Russell Braden! Thanks for your question.
If your account has the multiple organizations setting enabled in Admin Center, agents should see a dropdown menu that allows them to select which org the ticket is assigned to. If that doesn't answer your question, please let me know!
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Tracey
It would be great if there was a merge organisation function available as sometime duplicate organisations get created.
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Sean Winn
It's now October and five months since David reported this same thing back in May. The interface still reflects incorrectly that both Agents and Admins can view the organizations in their primary navigation. This is misleading, and it was only by finding this article that I was able to find the correct information about what this checkbox actually does. Please update the description in the Admin console to properly reflect what this enables.
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Pratishtha Nahata
Hi Sean Winn, thanks for the feedback.
After David's comment from earlier, we added the following section to the article -
To clarify, is your ask that we make the text in more explicit Admin Centre & include information about the Role permissions that need to be enabled for agents to view the organizations page?
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Arlene Washington
My company has been using Zendesk for over four years. Originally the Organizations were sorted alphabetically, then after an update this changed. I believe they are now sorted by date of creation. We have well over 100 organizations, and some of these organizations have multiple sub-orgs. It would be much easier to view them alphabetically. What is the progress on getting this completed? I was told it would be done months ago.
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Colleen Hall
Hi Arlene Washington,
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Thank you for your question! In October, Zendesk introduced an easier way to sort Organizations. By default, Organizations are now sorted by the last updated date but you can sort them alphabetically in either ascending or descending order.
Please note that if you refresh the page or log out, the Organizations list will need to be sorted again. I hope that helps!
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Arlene Washington
There is no sort icon on my Organizations page. Also, why can't the organizations be permanently listed in alphabetical order like they were originally?
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