Zendesk Explore features a prebuilt dashboard named Article Recommendations that helps you monitor your Answer Bot activity and article effectiveness. The dashboard can help you identify whether Answer Bot is solving your support requests, how quickly users are opening suggested articles, and how your individual articles are performing.
You can edit and customize the Answer Bot dashboard by cloning it (see Cloning Explore dashboards).
The information in Explore dashboards is updated on a schedule. The schedule depends on which Explore plan you are using. For details, see Data refresh intervals for Explore plans.
In the following topics, you'll learn how to access the Answer Bot dashboard and see the available reports:
Accessing the Article Recommendations dashboard
Use the following procedure to access the Article Recommendations dashboard.
To access the Article Recommendations dashboard
- In the Zendesk product tray, click the Explore icon (
).
- From the list of dashboards, select the Zendesk Answer Bot dashboard.
- In the Answer Bot dashboard, click the Article Recommendations tab.Tip: If Answer Bot is not configured then the Article Recommendations tab won't be displayed.
Understanding the Article Recommendations dashboard reports
Article Recommendations dashboard headline metrics
The dashboard displays the following headline metrics (KPIs):
- Suggestion rate: Displays the percentage of customer enquiries where Answer Bot offered a suggestion. The KPI also displays the number of answers, unsuccessful attempts, and attempts that Answer Bot made. Click the Improve link to get tips about how to improve the suggestion rate.
- Click-through rate: Displays the percentage of responses clicked by end users from the total responses offered by Answer Bot. The KPI also displays the number of clicks, clicked articles, and the median click time. Click the Improve link to get tips about how to improve the click-through rate.
- Resolution rate: Displays the percentage of enquiries that are resolved with no agent involvement. The KPI also displays the number of resolutions, indirect resolution answers, and the median resolution time. Click the Improve link to get tips about how to improve the resolution rate.
- Rejection rate: Displays the percentage of suggested article marked as unhelpful by end users from the total number of suggestion offered by Answer Bot. The KPI also displays the number of articles marked unhelpful. Click the Decrease link to get tips about how to improve the rejection rate.
Article Recommendations dashboard reports
The dashboard displays the following reports:
- Answer Bot activity volumes by date: Shows the number of offered,
clicked, and resolved bot answers and resolutions over the chosen time
period.
- Answer Bot activity rates by date: The percentage of Answer Bot
answers clicked, rejected, or resolved over the selected time
period.
- Resolutions by month (12 month): The number of resolutions and the
percentage resolution rate over a 12 month period.
- The following reports can be filtered by Suggested article language, Answer
brand, or Answer channel:
- Answers by selected attribute (top 10): Displays the top
ten offered answers by language, brand, or channel.
- Answers by selected attribute (top 10): Displays the top
ten offered answers by language, brand, or channel.
- Clicks and resolutions by selected attribute (top 10): Displays the
top ten clicks and resolutions by language, brand, or channel.
- Resolutions by selected attribute (12 months): Displays the
resolutions over the last 12 months sorted by language, brand, or
channel.
- Answer Bot activity by article: A detailed report about Answer Bot
activity for all of your Guide articles. You can restrict the range of
results shown by using the Top and Bottom filters. The table
contains the following information for each article that Answer Bot
interacted with:
- Article author: The author of each article
- Suggested articles: The number of times each article was suggested
- Clicked articles: The number of times each article suggested by Answer Bot was clicked
- Resolution articles: The number of tickets for each article that were solved by an Answer Bot suggestion
- Rejected articles: The number of times an Answer Bot suggestion for each article was rejected by an end user
- Resolutions/Clicks: The percentage of resolutions from clicked answers for each article. It is possible for this number to be over 100% as you can resolve an answer from the initial suggestion without clicking into it.
15 Comments
Добрый день. Если в таблице Answer Bot activity by article открыть детализацию с любой ячейки - появится таблица с чатами. Однако число этих чатов не совпадает ни с одной цифрой строке. Что это за чаты? И почему они отображаются не все, а только выборочно?
Детализация позволяет уточнить результаты запроса с помощью дополнительных атрибутов. Подробнее о работе детализации в статье "Using drill in to refine your queries".
Я свяжусь с Вами лично, чтобы проверить атрибуты для детализации и несовпадение данных в Вашем аккаунте.
Is there a way to see what the end-user asked/said? Especially for the instances when the Answer Bot wasn't able to suggest a relevant article?
In the "Answer Bot activity by article" I have some titles which don't have an author? How is that possible?
You can refer to Explore recipe: Analyzing the last 100 Answer Bot tickets. It will show you how Answer Enquiry was utilized.
Hi Denise,
Try to check the article directly in Guide Admin > Manage Articles > Published. If there's an author appearing on the specific article when you check the settings, you can contact support directly and we'll investigate further.
I want to find out the search phrases my customers are using. Where do I see that for Answer Bot?
You can use the attribute Answer Enquiry.
Hope this helps!
Hi,
Is there any way to see what resolution rate is for web widget vs resolution rate for email recommendations? It would be great to see which one is working better.
Thanks.
You can use the filter Answer Channel to specify the channel from which the inquiry came from.
You can also create your own report using the Answer Bot dataset to create a more personalized query.
Hi,
I'm trying to find out what an 'Indirect Resolution' is. Does anyone know?
Thanks,
Great question! This information can be found in this article: Metrics and Attributes for Zendesk Answer Bot
Indirect Resolution - In some situations, articles suggested by Answer Bot don’t resolve the customer’s enquiry directly but instead point them in the right direction in the help center to find the answer to their question. These resolutions are known as indirect resolutions. Indirect resolutions are reflected in Resolutions, Indirect resolutions and Answer status fields.
I hope this helps!
Hello,
My report is not gathering data from clicked articles recommended by my bot. Could you help me please?
Also, replies by customer support within zendesk have been quite slow (trying to find an answer to this question since Friday with no successful answer).
Thanks,
Pablo
with this specific question on your report, we would kindly ask you, to open a ticket with Support, so that we can take a closer look and troubleshoot the issue.
Hi all,
I am looking to diagnose at what point does the answer bot transfer to an agent when an article is suggested?
Thanks for asking. Please use Explore > Zendesk Answer Bot > Article Recommendations datasets for checking analytics.
Another option is to link your Answer bot with GA and analyze information from there like:
- Answer Bot Article Viewed
- Article ID,
- article name
- When the end user views an article from the list of suggested articles
For linking GA please follow -> Setting up and using Google Analytics for the Web Widget (Classic)
Or you can use Google Tag Manager for analyzing diagnose at what point does the answer bot transfer to an agent when an article is suggested.
Hope it helps
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