| Announced on | Rollout starts | Rollout ends |
|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2022 | To be determined | To be determined |
We're planning to move side conversations to the context panel for a more seamless integration with Agent Workspace.
This announcement includes these sections:
What’s changing, and why?
On Agent Workspace enabled accounts, side conversations will move from their current position above the ticket window to the context panel in Agent Workspace. The context panel is only available when Agent Workspace is enabled. For example, here’s what this will look like:
To see your side conversations, you will need to open a ticket, and then click this side conversation icon in the right sidebar:
Moving side conversations here integrates the functionality more tightly with Agent Workspace, and gives users more room to view and draft messages without obstructing the ticket view thanks to the adjustability of the context panel.
What do I need to do?
Once this change occurs, if Agent Workspace is enabled, you will be able to use side conversations from the context panel. Your side conversations content and notifications will not be affected and you’ll enjoy all the same functionality as before.
If Agent Workspace is not enabled, you are using the standard agent interface instead, and so you are unaffected by this change. No action is needed. Your side conversations will remain in their current position above the ticket window.
43 Comments
Toby Sterrett I would like this enabling for our account please. Thanks!
Toby Sterrett Thank you for your hard work! If possible, we would also like to get a bit earlier access to it on our account as well.
Toby Sterrett could we please also get earlier access? We need it asap in connection with implementation and agent training.
Toby Sterrett, just checking in to see when we will see the tooltip in our context panel to enable this. Thanks!
Hi Toby Sterrett & Lisa Kelly, Any updates on the rollout. The posted timeline advises rollout finishes today...???
Hey everyone, apologies for the continued delays. We're in final feature and deployment reviews right now. In the meantime, I just added more EAP signups to the feature, and I'll add more up until we're able to get to full rollout. If you'd like early access, make sure you sign up and we'll get you in.
Lovely, thanks Toby Sterrett. Just signed up my 2 accounts for the beta. :)
Thanks, Toby Sterrett. For the EAP, if we sign up is this an on/off switch we can turn on in our account? Also, are we able to just deploy it in one of our lower environments to test before having it in our production instance?
Hi, Toby Sterrett, we are getting lots of positive feedback from our customers. It's a much better place for Side Conversations.
We do have one point of feedback. When your message gets long, the Send button can disappear, and you have to scroll down within the Side conversation to find it again. We think it would be good if the Send button (and the rest of the buttons next to) always stay in view, no matter where you are in the Side Conversation. Users are so used to only having to hit the Submit button, that they often forget to hit Send if they have scrolled up a bit in the Side conversation.
If this is not the correct place for this feedback, please let me know!
We have had the same feedback from our teams and submitted it via the feedback form as well. Additionally, format toolbar behaviour is not optimal. Could we move the formatting bar and send button to the top of the conversation window?
It seems that this was NOW rolled out without further notice, breaking the learned workflows of our Agent team (another time...)
The question above
is highly relevant for us. Is there an option to switch back to the old behaviour or would we have to switch forward to a new support tool finally?
Sad
Oliver
Hey Oliver Tietze,
I just checked on this for you and it looks like it can be turned off. In fact, it looks like an admin has to also turn this feature ON to move it to the context panel, it wasn't an automatic rollout/change.
Perhaps another admin in your account switched this on with your knowledge or understanding of the impact it might cause on agents.
Screenshot below of where inside the Admin Centre you can revert this change.
Keep in mind - at some point, Zendesk will probably enforce this change on the account and take away the ability to revert back (much like they did when the new agent workspace was rolled out).
Hope this helps. :)
Best,
Amie
Hello,
I have checked the new location of Side Conversations in one of our Sandbox environments. Although the new position looks quite fine, I miss a lot the indicator/s that there is a new message or an update in a side conversation (basically the "blue dots" of the original location). In addition, the list of comments / events is not showing the latest update on a side conversation as the latest update. As a summary, the new location does not give the agent the information that there are updates (and probably important) in a side conversations. Are you going to review this?
Thanks and best regards,
Alfredo
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