Viewing an end user's profile in Zendesk Support

You can view an end user's profile in either Zendesk Support or in the help center. This article describes how to view an end user's profile in Support and the default fields contained in their profile.

The following topics are covered in this article:

• Viewing an end user's profile
• Default user fields

Related articles

• Viewing your Zendesk Support user profile
• Viewing user profiles from Help Center

Viewing an end user's profile

When you open an end user's profile in Support, you can view their profile and activity information, edit certain fields, and open a ticket on their behalf. You can also perform other actions, such as merging or deleting the user.

To view an end user's profile

1. Open an end user's profile using one of the following methods in Support:
   • Click the Search icon () in the sidebar and then search for the end user you want to view.
   • Click the tab for the ticket requester's profile in a ticket.
   • Click the end user's name on the Customers page.

   

2. Click through the different tabs on the main window to view the following information:
   • Tickets: View a user's requested or CC'd tickets. See Viewing assigned, requested, and CC tickets in the Support profile.
   • Help Center: View a user's comments, posts, votes, and subscriptions.
   • Related: View a user’s lookup relationships with tickets, organizations, and other users. See Using lookup relationship fields.
   • Security Settings: Reset a user's password. See Resetting users passwords.
3. Click the + New Ticket button next to the end user's name at the top right of the profile to create a new ticket on their behalf or the down arrow to perform actions such as merging, suspending, deleting, or assuming the identity of the user.
4. View and edit user details on the left side of the profile.

   Below are the default user fields. If you created custom fields, they're included in the user details panel (see Adding custom fields to users).

Default user fields

User data	Description
Role	Defines the user's function and access level. There are three user types: End user, Agent, and Administrator. By default, all new users are set to end users. Agents can only add end users. Only administrators can change a user's role.
Access	Important: There are organization access settings in the user profile and in the organization itself. If the settings are in conflict, the more permissive setting overrides the less permissive setting. Enable the end user to do one of the following: View and edit own tickets only, meaning users can only see and comment on tickets where they are the requester. Note: If you chose this setting, but the org setting gives users in the org access to all tickets, this user setting will be overridden by the org setting. Can view tickets from user's org, meaning user can see (but not comment on) all tickets in their organization. Note: If you chose this setting, and the org setting restricts access for users in the org to their own tickets only, this user setting will override the org setting.
Email	This is the email address you added for the end user. The email address must be unique to the end user. You cannot use a duplicate email address.
Contacts	You can also add additional contact information for users using the Add contacts link. See Adding user contact information.
Tags	List of tags you want automatically added to new tickets created by the end user. Separate tags with a space. Tags are added to new tickets only, not updated tickets. This is an optional feature and you might not have enabled user tagging. See Adding tags to users and organizations.
Organization	If you use organizations, and you want to add this end user to one, click Add organization, then enter the name of the organization. Click Add organization again if you'd like to add this user to multiple organizations (see Enabling multiple organizations for users). On the Team plan, users can belong to only one organization. On Professional and Enterprise, users can belong to multiple organizations, up to 300. A user does not have to belong to any organization, however. If your administrator has set up user mapping, which automatically adds new users to an organization based on their email domain, you can leave this blank.
Language	Language the user will view your instance of Zendesk Support in. This setting affects this user only. The end-user's Help Center will appear in the selected language and some system messages and email notifications may also be in the selected language. Not available on Team plans
Time zone	The end-user's local time zone; used to time stamp tickets submitted by this user. This setting affects this user only. Not available on Team plans
Details	Additional details about the end user. Address, for example. Details are visible to agents only, not end users.
Notes	Any notes about the end user. Notes are visible to agents only, not end users.