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Zendesk tickets fail to sync into cases in Salesforce



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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

Edited Aug 21, 2024


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The Zendesk tickets are not syncing again to salesforce Account object. It was working fine until 2 weeks ago. please help

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

HeyO @... - please contact customer support as documented here https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026614173-Contacting-Zendesk-Customer-Support if you'd like to get help with an issue 

I'll check to see if you've got any open tickets to discuss this issue and if so, will confirm that they're in the right place to get help.

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Hello @..., checking the status of this....

We are still experiencing this issue which means our reporting between the two systems is not alike and field teams are not able to view ticket details as a result of the sync failure for tickets exceeding the 32k character limit.  Thanks

This looks like a field-limitation on the SFDC-side: the Description field in the case object is capped at 32k characters, so any ticket created where the first comment exceeds that length will never be able to sync (description is set at creation and cannot be changed). I'm raising a new bug report so that our Devs can hopefully implement some truncation logic to handle this more gracefully.

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

HeyO @...

Thanks for the heads-up on this; you're exactly correct: this is due to a field-length limitation on the SFDC-side. Because description is fixed after ticket-creation, any ticket with an initial comment that exceeds this length will never sync. I've raised a bug ticket to our Developers to look into how this could be handled more gracefully on our side (likely through similar truncation). 

Until a long-term fix for this is released on our side, truncating to 32k chars prior to ticket-creation is going to be the best way to insure tickets sync to cases successfully. It should also be possible to re-import existing tickets whose description field values are too long using the API: https://developer.zendesk.com/api-reference/ticketing/tickets/ticket_import/ , removing the old ticket after a new one is created with a truncated description.

Hopefully this helps to resolve this issue for you

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thank you @...

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@... & @...

How can I truncate tickets to less than 32k char's before the integration trigger syncs tickets to salesforce?

Did either of you solve this issue?

  1. This looks like a field-limitation on the SFDC-side: the Description field in the case object is capped at 32k characters, so any ticket created where the first comment exceeds that length will never be able to sync (description is set at creation and cannot be changed). I'm raising a new bug report so that our Devs can hopefully implement some truncation logic to handle this more gracefully.

 

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

Greetings @...

Our Developers have indicated that this truncation is something they're going to look into, but they don't have the resources to tackle it in the near future.

As for the best way to tackle this truncation yourself, well that would depend on how those tickets were getting created. If they're coming via email through an external support address, perhaps that system could truncate the message itself before it's sent along to Zendesk. Similarly if they're being created via an integration/the API, I've seen cases where systems handle the truncation prior to generating the payload that gets pushed over. 

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Dwight Bussman is the ZenDesk to Salesforce sync only one directional? Does the sync accommodate Salesforce to Zendesk? 

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

The Ticket sync goes from Zendesk to SFDC only; updating the Case in SFDC will not update the ticket in ZD.

The Account/Contact/Lead sync goes from SFDC to Zendesk only; updating the org/user in Zendesk will not push back into Salesforce.

If you need to update tickets in Zendesk without leaving SFDC, that can be done within the Ticket View from the Account/Contact/Lead/Opportunity pages (any/all of which can contain the ticket view). In order to do so, the users would need to have linked their Zendesk credentials so that we know on whose behalf the ticket is being updated.

Oddly, it seems it's not possible to directly update the ticket from the Ticket View embedded on the Case object.... I'm looking into why that might be.

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Thanks for the quick reply Dwight!

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David Gillespie

Zendesk Product Manager

Hello everyone!

We appreciate your feedback on this topic and would love to hear more directly from you live. Please join us on September 12th at 5PM CDT for our PM Roundtable on our Salesforce integration.

It’ll be an open discussion on what is and isn’t working for you on with the Salesforce integration built by Zendesk. We're collecting feedback at the moment to help inform a new roadmap of improvements across the integration. So please bring those questions, concerns and use cases because we want to hear from you!

The link to register can be found here, we’d love to see you all there.

Cheers,

David

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David Gillespie

Zendesk Product Manager

Hi Everyone,

Following up on this thread after our PM Roundtable on the Salesforce Integration. Just wanted to stay another big thank you for providing feedback in this area.

In case you missed the PM Roundtable session, please find the deckrecording, and follow up article. Thank you again for your feedback!

Cheers,

David

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Hello Team,

I am receiving the following error while trying to syc zendesk ticket to salesforce case

Fail state with cause: Ticket Id **** Failed to Sync : Unable to lock the row : Unable to obtain exclusive access on record

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

Vishakha Shedge - please contact support to look into this further. I believe this error is likely related to logic on the SFDC side (case triggers/workflows), but our team can take a look to make sure.

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Anita

Zendesk Luminary

Dwight Bussman, we have the ticket view embedded in the Case record page but unable to link to Zendesk credentials and edit. You had mentioned this was an issue and were looking into this. Any update on this?

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Dwight Bussman

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Anita

Per this article that editing capability is only available on the Accounts, Opportunities, Contacts, or Leads pages.

I'm not sure why this limitation exists, but it appears to be expected at this time. If that's extremely cumbersome, I recommend posting your feature request to this Integrations Product Feedback Forum

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Anita

Zendesk Luminary

Thanks for the quick reply! Posted to the feedback forum. 

Salesforce Integration – Make ticket view editable from Case record page

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