Suggested macros are AI-powered suggestions that help agents find the right macros to apply to the tickets they’re currently working on. These suggestions are based on macros that were applied to similar tickets in the past, and are intended to help agents resolve the customer’s request more quickly.
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About suggested macros
Suggested macros are shared macros that have been identified through an AI-powered analysis of your macro usage data. Using machine learning, an algorithm analyzes the text in the ticket's subject and comments. It then compares them to those used in tickets that were created in the last nine months, where a macro was applied.
The ticket must be from an email, webform, Web Widget, API, Mobile SDK, or Channel framework channel. Only shared macros that an agent has access to are suggested; personal macros are never suggested.
Up to three suggested macros appear at the top of the macros list in the ticket interface.
For more information about the agent workflow, see Applying suggested macros to tickets.
Turning suggested macros on or off
Suggested macros are off by default. You can turn on suggested macros only when the account includes enough data about past macro usage. Your account must include at least 100 tickets that were created within the last nine months in a supported channel and had a shared macro applied. In addition, at least three of the shared macros in the account need to have been used at least once on tickets that were created in the last nine months.
If the account doesn’t include enough macro usage data, you will need to create and use more shared macros, more frequently, and over a period of time, before you can turn on suggested macros. When you create a new macro, it takes two weeks to be included in the suggested macros machine learning model for analysis.
Admins and agents in custom roles with permission can turn suggested macros on or off.
To turn suggested macros on or off
- In Admin Center, click
Workspaces in the sidebar, then select Agent tools > Macros.
- On the Macros page, click Actions > Manage
settings.
- On the Manage settings page, select or deselect the Display
suggested macros option to turn it on or off.
This is an account-wide setting, not individual. Turning the option on or off will affect all admins and agents on the account.
- Click Save.
32 comments
Ivan Miquiabas
Thanks for reaching out!
The exact requirements are explained in Enabling and disabling suggested macros support article (below the requirements part).
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Natalia Abreu
Hi. I have some questions about the macro usage data:
1) When replying to a ticket, if we select a macro but edit some of its content before sending it as an public answer to the customer, does that count towards the macro usage data for Zendesk?
2) We usually save our macros as internal notes, edit it as necessary, and then copy and paste the final version of it as a public answer when replying to our customers. Does that count as macro usage or not?
We really want to implement the macro suggestion feature, but we are having troubles figuring how to raise our macro data usage to use this feature. In which stances using a macro is actually being counted towards the macro data usage?
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