Quick Look: Admin Center > Objects and rules > Tickets >
Settings
You can enable tickets to be auto-assigned to the solving agent.
When enabled, tickets are assigned in the following ways:
- When an agent solves a ticket that is not currently assigned, and does not manually assign the ticket to themselves or another agent, the ticket will be auto-assigned to the solving agent.
- When a ticket is set to Solved status by a trigger or automation without an assignee,
the next agent who updates that ticket is automatically set as the assignee.
If you’ve enabled custom ticket statuses: When a ticket is set to a ticket status in the Solved status category by a trigger or automation without an assignee, the next user who updates that ticket is automatically set as the assignee.
- When an agent is the ticket requester and a trigger closes the ticket, that agent will also become the assignee.
To enable auto-assign on ticket solve
- In Admin Center, click
Objects and rules in the sidebar, then select Tickets > Settings.
- In the Assignment section, select Auto-assign tickets upon solve.
- Click Save tab.
9 comments
Gonzalo Rivero
Hello.
We have an issue with this feature.
When a ticket is submitted as solved, it auto-assigns to the Agent that submitted the ticket as solved. The issue appears when that agent is on holidays and the customer reopens the solved ticket, as the ticket is assigned to the Agent that is on holidays, the other Agents can't see the ticket on their dashboards.
I unchecked the "Auto-assign tickets upon solve" but Zendesk still requires selecting an assignee, and I cannot assign to the Group "Support" (where all agents can see the ticket if it is reopened)
Unfortunately, the Zendesk chat help provided solutions that did not work at all (macros, automations, you name it), even installing a 3rd party app that did nothing.
We need that the tickets that are submitted as solved are NOT assigned to a specific Agent or be able to submit as solved and assign to the Group "Support".
Thank you for your help.
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Christopher Boerger
Gonzalo Rivero there is a cool app called out-of-office that helps to avoid that when an agent is set to OOO it unassign's and puts the ticket back on the group dashboard.
here is the link to the app on zendesk marketplace
https://www.zendesk.com/apps/support/49617/out-of-office/
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Gonzalo Rivero
Tried it, it didn't work. Tried it again and it worked! Maybe it was some setting.
Thanks!
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Dave Dyson
For visibility to our product team, can you post your use case to our Feedback - Ticketing System (Support) topic, using this template?
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Dave Dyson
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Joan Roa
Hi! Is there a way to do this not only when solving but also when updating? I tried with this https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408838617882-Can-I-automatically-assign-a-ticket-to-the-first-responding-agent but I also need this to happen with later replies.
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Dainne Kiara Lucena-Laxamana
Hi John!
The Auto-assign function is only for the solving agent. You are definitely on the right track that you can use Triggers for it. You can utilize the conditions such as “Ticket Status is change to *pending*” & the action would be “Assignee - current user”. This is just an example workflow but definitely tinkering around with the Triggers should create the workflow you are looking for.
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D.Fitz
Is this reportable in any way?
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yukiho.suzuki
Is there any way to see how many times (or tickets) this auto-assign feature was activated during a certain period?
I am considering to disable this feature as I wasn't aware of this setting. But before that I would like to check how much this feature has been functioning in the first place.
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