In Zendesk Support, you can search for data, such as ticket properties, user properties, comments, tags, Help Center articles, and so on, using the search tool, located in the top toolbar. Administrators can search everything, and agents can search the tickets and users that they have permission to see. For example, if as an agent you are limited to only seeing tickets in the groups that you belong to, you will only be able to see those tickets in your search results.
If you have the Zendesk Agent Workspace enabled on your account, you can also search live chat and messaging conversations.
This article covers the following topics:
Accessing the search tool
There are a few ways you can get to the Zendesk Support search tool.
You can click the Search icon (
) in the upper-right of
the top toolbar, which opens the simple search box:
You can hover your cursor over the add tab in the upper-left of the top toolbar and select Search, which opens the search page:
Or you can use the keyboard shortcut (Control + Alt + F/Control + Option + F), which opens the simple search box.
Using search
The text search gives you an unfiltered list of everything you can access that contains your search terms.
- Click the Search icon () in the
upper-right of the top toolbar.
- Enter your query in the search box.
- Press Enter.
Your search results are displayed in a new tab on the toolbar.
In addition to full text search, you can perform a search using common search operators combined with data property keywords and values to narrow your results. See Zendesk Support advanced search for more information.
Understanding your search results
Your search results are sorted into categories for tickets, users, articles, and organizations. Each category contains different columns, icons, and other elements, to help you identify, filter, sort, or otherwise organize your search results.
To select the type of result you want to view
- Click the category at the top of the search results page.
Tickets
The Tickets category returns a list of support requests that have your search term(s) in their subject line or comments. This category contains the most options for organizing your results. It has columns displaying the following information relevant to the ticket:
- ID, the ticket's numeric identifier.
- Subject, the text from the ticket's subject line.
- Requested, the date the ticket was submitted.
- Updated, the last time the ticket was updated.
- Requester, the name of the user who submitted the ticket.
- Group, the group assigned to handle the ticket.
Each result is preceded by an icon indicating that ticket's current status:
If you have custom ticket
statuses activated, closed tickets may be
included in your search results. Closed tickets are
identified by an icon (
), which you can hover over for more
information. To learn more about how tickets are closed when
custom ticket statuses are activated, see Solving a ticket with
a custom status.
You can exclude closed tickets from your results by clicking the Filter menu and clearing the Include closed tickets checkbox.
- Click anywhere on a ticket result's row opens that ticket in a new tab.
- Click on the Requested or Updated column in the search results to toggle between displaying results in ascending or descending order by date.
Users
The Users category returns a list of accounts who include your search term(s) in their names, or elsewhere in their profiles. This doesn't include custom user fields in profiles (see Searching custom user and organization fields).
The results for this category contain the following columns:
- Name, the user's submitted name.
- Email, the user's email address.
- Organization, the company or group they work for.
- Role, the role assigned to that user (agent, admin, end-user, and the like).
- Updated, the last time the user's profile was updated.
- Click anywhere on a user's row to open that user's profile in a new tab.
Articles
The Articles category returns a list of knowledge base entries that mention your search term(s). The results for this category contain the following columns:
- Title, the article's title.
- Updated, the last time the article was updated.
- Created, the date the article was posted to the knowledge base.
- Click anywhere on an article's row to open that article in a new browser window or tab.
Organizations
The Organizations category returns a list of organizations that include your search term(s) in their names or elsewhere in their profiles. This doesn't include custom orginization fields in profiles (see Searching custom user and organization fields).
The results for this category contain the following columns:
- Name, the organization's name.
- Notes, any notes added to their profile.
- Created, the date the organization first registered.
- Updated, the last time the organization updated its profile.
- Click anywhere on an organization's row to open that organization's profile in a new tab.
Filtering your search results
You can further narrow your search results using search filters. You can filter for just the type of elements you want to see: tickets, articles, users, or organizations. Each category offers relevant ways to further refine your results.
To filter search results
- Peform a search, as described above.
- On the search results page, click Filters.
- Click the Search dropdown to select the type of
element you want to include in your search.
- Fill out the options as needed to refine your search.
You can further narrow your filtered search results using search operators and keywords. For more information on this kind of advanced search, see Zendesk Support advanced search.
Previewing ticket details from search results
Hovering your cursor over the subject of a result displays a preview of that ticket, allowing you to glean more information about the ticket without having to open it. In the preview window, snippets of comments or fields containing your search term(s) are displayed, with the search term(s) highlighted, so you can determine whether the ticket is relevant to your search before opening it.
- Hover your cursor over the subject of a result to
display a preview of that ticket.
Updating tickets in bulk from search results
You can make ticket updates to many tickets at the same time. For example, if you want to assign yourself to a number a tickets, you just select them in the search results and set yourself as the assignee. You can also delete, merge, or mark as spam the selected tickets.
To update multiple tickets
- In your search results, select the tickets you want to
update.
You can pick and choose the tickets you want to update, or select the entire list by clicking the check box at the top left of the results list.
- Click Edit from the toolbar at the botton of the list.
- Update the ticket information as needed. See Managing tickets in bulk for more information.
- Click Submit to apply the changes to your selected tickets, or click the menu dropdown on the Submit button to apply the changes.
Sharing search URLs
You can copy search query strings you create in Support to your clipboard, where you can then share them with other users. When you share a search query with another user and they click it, the string will perform the search in their own Support instance using the same query you created.
To copy and share search queries
- Peform a search, as described above.
- On the search results page, click the Copy link button
.
The search query is copied to your clipboard. You can now send the query to other users, for example, by pasting it into an email.
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