Workflow: How to add a tag to a user with a trigger action

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to tag a user using a trigger. You will also find if a tag was added by a trigger.

The workflow includes the steps below.

• Step 1: Create a custom user field
• Step 2: Create a trigger
• Step 3: Verify if a user tag was added by a trigger

Note: You can't add user tags to a profile directly with a trigger action. Triggers act on ticket-level objects, not user-level data. To get the same result, link the trigger to a custom user field for the requester. When you update the custom user field, the user's tags update.

Step 1: Create a custom user field

1. Create a custom user field select the drop-down field type
2. Add the user field values with tags. This example adds the vip user tag
3. Click Save
   
    

Step 2: Create a trigger

1. Create a trigger
2. Add the ticket conditions for your user tag
3. Under Actions, add Lookup relationships > Requester > Your custom user field | Select the user field value
4. Click Save
   

The trigger adds the vip tag to the user and any subsequent tickets from that user.

Note: The Requester is the user who created or sent the ticket, and the trigger uses the Requester as the link to reach the user profile, where a custom user field stores additional information such as category tags that automatically updates the user’s tags whenever the field value changes.

Step 3: Verify if a user tag was added by a trigger

Use the below steps to verify if a user tag has been added by a trigger.

1. Go to Admin Center > People > User fields > Open your user field, and locate the digits right after the Custom field ID at the top of the page

   

2. Use the URL below and replace fieldID with the user field ID found in point 1, and your Zendesk subdomain instead of yoursubdomain

   https://yoursubdomain.zendesk.com/api/v2/user_fields/fieldID

   In the results, note the numerical value that will appear after "id"

   

3. Using this URL below, replace yoursubdomain with your actual Zendesk subdomain:

   https://yoursubdomain.zendesk.com/api/v2/triggers/active.json?active=true&page=1
   

4. On that page, look for the value ID from point 2 in the trigger list
   The name of the trigger will appear, along with the custom user field value and tag: