Views are a way to organize your tickets by grouping them into lists based on certain criteria. For example, you can create a view for unsolved tickets that are assigned to you, a view for new tickets that need to be triaged, or a view for pending tickets that are awaiting response. Using views can help you determine what tickets need attention from you or your team and plan accordingly.
Many support teams use views to guide the workflow by requiring agents to address tickets in one view first and then others in a specific order. Views can also mirror the support structure you've created. For example, if you provide different levels of service for different customers or manage escalation using a tiered support group structure (Level 1, Level 2), you can create views for each of these scenarios.
This article covers the following topics:
About view types
Zendesk Support includes the following types of views:
- Default views. There are a number of pre-defined views created when you open a Zendesk Support account. You can deactivate or edit most of these views; however, the Suspended tickets and Deleted tickets views cannot be edited or removed from your list of views.
- Shared views. Administrators can create views that are available to all agents
or to all agents in a specific group. The first 12 shared views are accessible in the
Views list (
) .
- Personal views. Agents can create views that available to themselves only. The
first 8 personal views are accessible in the Views list (
).
Adding views
Views are a way to organize tickets by grouping them into lists based on certain criteria.
Agents can create views for their own personal use only. Admins, and agents in custom roles with permission, can create personal views, as well as shared views for use by multiple agents.
For best practices when setting up and using views, see Best practices for creating views.
- In Admin Center, click
Workspaces in the sidebar, then select Agent tools > Views.
- Click Add view.
Alternatively, you can clone an existing view. (see Cloning a view).
- Enter a Title for the view.
- Enter a Description for the view.
- Select an option to determine Who has access:
- Any agent, available to all agents.
- Agents in specific groups, available to agents in specified groups. Select groups from the menu, then click away when finished.
- Only you, available to you as a personal view.
- Click Add condition to set up the view to meet All or Any
conditions.
The conditions define this collection of tickets.
- Select a Condition, Field operator, and Value for each condition
you add.
See Building view condition statementsBuilding view condition statements.
- Click Preview to test the conditions.
- Set the formatting options:
- Drag the Columns into the order you want and click Add column to
add up to 10 columns.
Status is always shown as colored icons to the left of your view's columns; you don't have to add it. Multi-select fields are not supported.
- Under Group by, select the ticket field you want to use to group tickets,
then select Ascending or Descending.Tip: If you select Request date from the Group by drop-down list, any settings you change in the Order by drop-down list will not be applied.
- Under Order by, select a ticket field to use as the default data to order tickets, then select Ascending or Descending.
- Drag the Columns into the order you want and click Add column to
add up to 10 columns.
- Click Save.
The view is created.
You can manage your view (edit, deactivate, and so on) on the view's page (see Managing your views.
Building view condition statements
As with the other business rules, you select collections of tickets using conditions, operators, and values.
You must have at least one of the following ticket properties in the Meet all of the following conditions section:
- Status
- Type
- Group
- Assignee
- Requester
Some conditions may not be available, depending on your plan.
Condition | Description |
---|---|
Ticket: Status |
The ticket status values are: New is the initial status of a newly created ticket (not assigned to an agent). Open means that the ticket has been assigned to an agent. Pending is used to indicate that the requester has been asked for information and the ticket is therefore on hold until that information has been received. On-hold means that the support request is awaiting a resolution from a third party—someone who is not a member of your support staff and does not have an agent account in your Zendesk. This status is optional and must be added to your Zendesk (see Adding on-hold ticket status to your Zendesk). Solved indicates that the customer’s issue has been resolved. Tickets remain solved until they are closed. Closed means that the ticket has been locked and cannot be reopened or updated. When selecting a status, you can use the field operators Less Than and Greater Than to specify a range of tickets based on their status. New is the lowest value, with values increasing until you get to Closed status. For example, a condition statement that returns only New, Open, and Pending tickets looks like this: Status is less than Solved. |
Ticket: Brand | Include (is) or exclude (is not) a brand using the drop-down menu. |
Ticket: Form | Select the required ticket form. For more information on ticket forms, see Creating ticket forms to support multiple request types. |
Ticket: Type | The ticket type values are: Question Incident is used to indicate that there is more than one occurrence of the same problem. When this occurs, one ticket is set to Problem and the other tickets that are reporting the same problem are set to Incident and linked to the problem ticket. Problem is a support issue that needs to be resolved. Task is used by the support agents to track various tasks. |
Ticket: Priority | There are four values for priority: Low, Normal, High, and Urgent. As with status, you can use the field operators to select tickets that span different priority settings. For example, this statement returns all tickets that are not urgent: Priority is less than Urgent |
Ticket: Group | The ticket group values are:
Group name is the actual name of the group that is assigned to the ticket. |
Ticket: Assignee |
The assignee values are:
Additional value for views:
|
Ticket: Requester |
The requester values are:
Additional value for views:
|
Ticket: Organization | The organization values are:
|
Ticket: Tags |
You use this condition to determine if tickets contain a specific tag or tags. You can include or exclude tags in the condition statement by using the operators Contains at least one of the following or Contains none of the following. More than one tag can be added. Press Enter between each tag you add. |
Ticket: Description | The description is the first comment in the ticket. It does not include
the text from the subject line of the ticket. If you are using the Contains at least one of the following or Contains none of the following operators, the results will consider words containing part of the entered search terms. For example, using "none" for this condition will return (or exclude) ticket descriptions containing "nonetheless". The description condition also pulls data contained within the HTML and the original source of a ticket. |
Ticket: Channel |
The ticket channel is where and how the ticket was created. The contents of this list will differ depending on the channels you have active, and any integrations you are using. For more information about the channels you can configure, see About Zendesk Support channels and Understanding ticket channels in Explore. |
Ticket: Integration Account | Include (is) or exclude (is not) an installed Support or messaging integration using the drop-down menu. |
Ticket: Received at | |
Ticket: Satisfaction | This condition returns the following customer satisfaction rating values:
|
Ticket: Satisfaction Reason | Include (is) or exclude (is not) the selected satisfaction reason, if enabled, using the drop-down menu. |
Ticket: Hours since... | This condition allows you to select tickets based on the hours that have passed
since the ticket was updated in the following ways:
|
Ticket: Custom fields | Custom fields that set tags (drop-down list and checkbox) are available as
conditions. You can select the drop-down list values and Yes or No for checkboxes.
You can also use date conditions to specify if the date value is before, after, or
on a certain date. For example, you could look for all tickets created in the last
hour by using the condition Hours since created > Is > 1.
The following field types aren't available as view conditions: Text, Multi-line, Numeric, Decimal, Credit Card, Regex. Note: Each custom checkbox field must have an associated tag. Otherwise, when you
create or edit a view, it won't appear as an available condition.
|
Ticket: Privacy | Checks the privacy settings on ticket comments. See Adding comments to tickets for information on public vs. private comments. |
Ticket: Skills | See Creating skills-based views. |
Ticket sharing: Sent to | Checks whether a ticket was shared to another Zendesk Support account via a specific ticket sharing agreement |
Ticket sharing: Received from | Checks whether a ticket was shared from another Zendesk Support account via a specific ticket sharing agreement |
Requester: Language | Checks the language used by the end user. Include (is) or exclude (is not) languages using the drop-down list of supported languages. |
Cloning a view
You can clone an existing view to create a copy that you can modify and use for some other purpose. You can clone a view from the Views admin page or from the views list.
If using custom roles, agents will need to be permitted to add and edit personal, group, and global views (see Creating custom agent roles). Agents will receive an error message if not given the permission.
To clone a view from the Views admin page
- In Admin Center, click
Workspaces in the sidebar, then select Agent tools > Views.
- Hover your mouse over the view you want to clone, then click the options menu (
) and select Clone view.
- Modify the title, conditions, formatting, and availability as needed.
- Click Save.
38 Comments
We had someone alter one of our list views and we are now trying to restore it to its previous criteria...is there any type of versioning or restore option for Views?
Hi there,
I don't think there's necessarily an answer to this with the current functionality within views but here's my issue.
I have traditionally split out the 'Pending - All Tickets' view into two 'work' reports. The first of those is filtered by:
Status is Pending
Hours since update is greater than 168
This means any tickets that have been sat in pending for a week pop into this report for my team to follow up and nudge the requester, or move the ticket towards closure if the user does not engage.
That's all well and good but we've now introduced an additional element of complexity by 'switching on' the priority field. I now want to add conditions to the view which will show low priority tickets after 168 hours but high priority tickets after just 24 hours. In other words, I want to achieve:
IF Status is Pending
AND
((Priority = High
AND
Hours Since Update > 24)
OR
(Priority = Low
AND
Hours Since Update > 168))
THEN
Add the ticket the view
Is there anyway I can achieve this easily? I can set up separate views but I'm keen to keep the number of views we ask the team to monitor daily to a minimum.
Thanks!
I don't have a "More" button in order to see additional views that are available. All views are set for all agents, no matter the group. I know there are extra views that should be available, but all I have at the bottom of the list are "suspended", "deleted," and a link to manage the views.
I am looking for a way to build a view that shows tickets where I am the cc on (versus the assignee of). Is there any way to do this or has anyone come up with a workaround for this?
You can try to add those users to an organization. Once done, you can then use the condition for organization in your views.
@Aaronsn,
Unfortunately, Zendesk does not have an option to restore any data that has been deleted.
@James,
You will really need to create different views for this use case for there are multiple conditions that needs to be met that can't be added on the same view.
@Erik,
Please refer to Can I create a view of tickets I'm CC'd on?. Short answer is "no". I also can't think of a method to leverage the use of web-hooks and API for this use case.
I'm trying to confirm an assumption I have on restricted ticket access accounts (agents can only see tickets in groups they are assigned to). If an agent has access to a View but does not have access to all the tickets that meet the view conditions, the agent would only see the tickets they have access to that meet the conditions. Is this correct?
The Zendesk account is setup to restrict ticket access, agents can only see tickets in groups they are assigned to. A view is set up to show unsolved tickets is Group X and Group Y. An agent assigned to Group X has access to the view. If they go to the view, they WILL only see the tickets in Group X; they WILL NOT see tickets with Group Y.
"In a upcoming release, this will change so that views will use the schedule that is applied to the ticket."
What is the ETA?
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