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Creating agents and departments in Chat



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Aimee Spanier

Zendesk Documentation Team

Edited Jun 21, 2024


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I have Professional level but I am not seeing the Department option under settings. Am I missing something? or are Departments not available at Professional level? If so, please clarify on the documentation.

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Hi, I have set up a new Department (Group) but when I want to include it under department selections on the front end of the website, it is not displaying ?

 

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Neil

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Joe,
 
You'd want to make sure that there are agents added into the department(group) and it is enabled from the Chat instance.
You can check on this article to know more about managing agent groups in the Zendesk Agent Workspace
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821752346

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This article no longer appears to be correct or is misleading. 

"Contributors do not occupy an agent seat in Support unless they are manually upgraded to an agent role."

Technically this is correct but when the chat agent is added it does take full support agent seat, regardless of the support agent level.  I spoke with support, and this is the expected behavior.  

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Is there a way to edit only the displayed name of the department in the pre-chat form, without changing the name of the department in the general ZD settings?

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Gab

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Daniel, 
 
I created a ticket on your behalf and will send it to you via email so we can discuss your use-case better. 
 
Thank you!

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Have the same question that Alexandra asked above, three years ago

“I have Professional level but I am not seeing the Department option under settings. Am I missing something? or are Departments not available at Professional level? If so, please clarify on the documentation.”

 

The word “department” does not exist anywhere within any part of the entire dashboard.

 

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Dainne Kiara Lucena-Laxamana

Zendesk Customer Care

Hi Eric Smith !

When Messaging is enabled, the Chat-side nomenclature is amended to “Groups” to match the Support-side setting. Groups is an option in your Chat Dashboard. So if your team doesn't use Chat but use Messaging, instead of going to "Department", you'd see “Groups”. 

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Thanks Dainne Kiara Lucena-Laxamana for your reply. Is “Roles” also amended to “Groups”? I do have the Groups option but not Roles or Departments.

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