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Setting roles and access in Zendesk Admin Center



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Lisa Kelly

Zendesk Documentation Team

Edited Jan 31, 2025


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As an administrator, I am unable to change the Roles and Access products for my own profile? I need to sometimes change my role for Talk from Admin to Team Lead but need another Admin to change the Access on my own profile. Is there a way to make the changes myself? Currently with the Pro plan.

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Hi Erica –

The account Owner can set Roles and Access for any user, including themselves (I'll see if we can get that information added to this documentation).

So if you're an admin and the owner, you should be able to set it yourself. If you're an admin but not also the owner, then the owner or another admin can set it for you. If needed, as an admin, you could temporarily promote an agent to admin, have them change your role for your, and them revert them back to their former agent status.

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Hello all,

we have the "Support Suite Pro" with 10 seats. I need to give access to a new staff member to manage Guide articles, but we reached a limit:

So I thought that by removing this right to existing members that do not really need it, I would be able to give him the proper access. But even after waiting a few minutes and several Ctrl-F5, the items are still disabled in the list as above. Am I doing something wrong? Is this info stored in cache for a long period of time maybe?

Thanks for your help

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Hi Frédéric,

Have you gotten this squared away? I see that all ten of your paid seats are in use, either by Support Admins (including your account Owner) or Guide Admins (Guide Admins use a paid seat even if they do not have access to Support). For more information on Guide roles, see About staff roles in Zendesk Admin Center

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Hi Dave, thanks for your quick reply.

We have 10 agents in Zendesk Support, and the new user is such an agent already. Could this mean a non-agent user has been set as having Guide access? Does suc h type of user exist? If so, is there an easy way to find this account? Or could it be something else? Why do we see "staff" in some places and "agent" in others? Are they the same user types?

When I edit a user that was admin in Guide yesterday, I can still put him back as admin or agent. Why can't I do the same with another agent? If the quota is reached, the option should be disabled on all users, no? Seems to me there is a discrepancy somewhere here. Any clue?

Thanks!

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HI again Frédéric –

So you have a total of eight seats that are being used by Support Admins, and two that are currently being used by Guide Admins but only Contributors in Support, for a total of ten paid seats. Your other Contributor agents who have Viewer permissions in Guide do not take up a paid seat.

That's why you can modify the staff role of your Guide Admins - they already count towards your ten paid seats. If you want to change the role of one of your Contributor/Viewer agents, you'll need to either free up an agent seat (e.g., by downgrading one of your two Contributor/ Guide Admin agents to Contributor/Viewer, or by adding additional paid agent seats.

Does that clarify things?

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Thanks a lot for the clarification, I must have missed something when reading about how seats are counted.

I removed a user that didn't need admin rights anymore and I've been able to add the new account to the Guide agents successfully.

Best regards!

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Possible improvement to Zendesk ;-)

Have a list of all users taking seats, and for what part of the system.

In our case we had only 10, so several clicks were needed to isolate those, but imagine consumers with many more seats...

Just my 2 cents.

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Please change it back, it takes significantly longer to open the Admin Center each time we need to update someone's role within Support profiles. The drop-down list of roles was great, why did you change it to this? You've literally made it less intuitive.

 

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Heads up that the video embedded in this page is too small to decipher the content and it cannot be made fullscreen.

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Lisa Kelly

Zendesk Documentation Team

Thanks, Evan. The video should be easier to view now. Click the image and it will open in a new window. 

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As the Admin who manages the Agents and Admins on our account, the workflow to edit user roles is excessive and unnecessary. I have to switch between Support and Admin Centre up to 3 times to edit a team members role.

If I start in Zendesk Support these are the steps I have to follow:
1: Click on the Setting cog
2: Click on Go to Admin Centre
** Switch to Admin Centre**
3: Open list of Team Members
4: Select to Edit the relevant team member
** Switch to Zendesk Support **
5: Click Manage in Admin Centre
** Switch back to Admin Centre **
6: Edit roles as required and Save.

Why wouldn't you either:
- Have a list of team members in Support so you can open them and click Manage in Admin Centre from there
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- When you press Edit in Admin Centre it takes you to the Roles area from there.

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Hi Leah, 
 
I realize the irony of my request here, but for the best visibility to our product team, would you mind creating a post in our Feedback - Admin Center community topic, using this template

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Hi Dave,

I have added the post as requested.

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Thanks Leah!

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Hi guys,

We are starting to provide some of our non-support colleagues with Light Agent access. These agents may be in a group of their own. I would like them to be able to view ALL tickets. What we're finding is, that to see any ticket within our instance, we have to ensure they reside within all of our groups.

Under 'Understanding what light agents can do' above, "Light agents can... view tickets assigned to groups they're in or view all tickets". This led me to believe that our light agents should see all tickets by default. But, when I look through the comments, I can see that there are settings particular to Enterprise (Roles) which we do not have, which allow you to edit the Light agent role itself (see comment by DJ Buenavista Jr. Feb 10, 2022).

Is this correct? My current workaround is to ensure that all of our light agents are within every group we have set up for organisational purposes, which is not ideal.

Thanks,
Frank

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Dane

Zendesk Engineering

Hi Frank,

Only Enterprise plans have the option to modify the ticket access for light agents. Please refer to Configuring light agent permissions with Suite Enterprise. For lower plans, it is limited to the groups they are a part of.

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Hello, I want to ask regarding the limitation of access. I want to limit my agent's access so they cannot delete a ticket no matter what. But without changing their ability to reply to tickets, use tags, and edit user notes.

We wanted to create a custom role but we are unable to do so as the options are not available in our end 

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Lisa Kelly

Zendesk Documentation Team

Hello Vincent
There are two options. See below for details. 

  • Option 2: If you have another type of account, for example Professional, you can deactivate the Agents can delete tickets setting on the Agent settings page in Admin Center. See Enabling agents to delete tickets

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Hello Lisa Kelly
Thank you for your reply, We are a professional account, but we have un-ticked the agents can delete the ticket box and yet our agents can still delete tickets and mark them as spam. Is there another way to do it ?

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Lisa Kelly

Zendesk Documentation Team

Hi Vincent, 

If disabling the Agents can delete tickets and redact content setting isn't working on your account, I recommend contacting Zendesk Customer Support. It should work as expected. 

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Hi All, 

I am looking for a solution where the edit or update access lies with the assignee of a ticket only. No one should be able to update or edit the ticket.

Any solution for the issue or suggestions for third-party solutions will be appreciated. 

Thanks in Advance. 

 

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JR Lausin

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Akanksha,

There's no option yet to restrict a ticket update and edits to it's assignee as  ticket assignee can be manually assigned to any agents as long as they're not restricted and be an assignee on a ticket and  can edit and update ticket. But you might want to consider creating a private group. When a group is private, only agents from that group can view tickets assigned to it.

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408831313050-How-can-I-prevent-agents-in-one-group-from-seeing-another-group-s-tickets-

Sincerely,
 

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When creating a role in Zendesk and giving that user the permission to manage reports and dashboards for groups they are assigned to why cant they pull reports on the guide area? In order to pull reports on the guide area do you have to have full reporting and analytics permission?

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