Enabling and disabling ticket tags

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Tags are words, or combinations of words, you can use to add more context to tickets (see About tags). Manual ticket tagging is enabled by default, but automatic ticket tagging is not. With manual ticket tagging, agents can add and edit tags on tickets. With automatic ticket tagging, Zendesk Support scans incoming ticket descriptions and adds tags that match. You must be an administrator or an agent in a custom role with permission to enable and disable ticket tagging.

This article contains the following sections:

• Disabling manual ticket tagging
• Enabling and disabling automatic ticket tagging

Disabling manual ticket tagging

Manual ticket tagging is enabled by default. You can turn off manual ticket tagging if you'd like. You might do this if you rely solely on automatic tagging (the Enable automatic ticket tagging option) or if you simply don't use tags. When you disable manual ticket tagging, the Tags field does not appear on new tickets.

To disable manual ticket tagging

1. In Admin Center, click Objects and rules in the sidebar, then select Tickets > Settings.
2. In the Tags section, deselect the Enable tags on tickets option.
   Note: Disabling manual ticket tagging only removes the ability to add tags via the ticket interface. Agents, admins, and integrations can still add, remove, or modify tags on tickets via the Update Ticket API.
3. Click Save tab.

   If you disable this setting, any existing tags that were applied to tickets will remain, but you cannot add new tags.

Enabling and disabling automatic ticket tagging

If you enable automatic ticket tagging, Zendesk Support scans new incoming ticket descriptions looking for words longer than two characters and then compares those words to tags that have already been used. The top three matches are added to the ticket. You can then use those tags in your business rules to, for example, automatically route tickets to specific groups or agents.

Tags are only automatically added to tickets that come from end-users via the ticket channels. Tags will not be added if an agent submits a ticket from within Support. However, if an agent creates a new ticket using an email, automatic tags will be applied.

Note that automatic ticket tagging might not work in languages other than English.

If you use conditional ticket fields, it's recommended to not enable automatic ticket tagging because it can potentially select field values and override end users' form selections.

To enable automatic ticket tagging

1. In Admin Center, click Objects and rules in the sidebar, then select Tickets > Settings.
2. In the Tags section, select the Enable automatic ticket tagging option.
3. Click Save tab.

To disable automatic ticket tagging

1. In Admin Center, click Objects and rules in the sidebar, then select Tickets > Settings.
2. In the Tags section, deselect the Enable automatic ticket tagging option.
3. Click Save tab.

   If you disable automatic tagging, you can still add tags manually.