How to allow email target responses to thread into existing ticket

18 Comments

  • Thomas Joussot

    Hi Brett,

    Thanks for sharing this but I'm confused with this process. I may be wrong or miss something but why not CC'ing contact directly to do the same thing when the response needs to be public?

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hey Thomas, 

    CC'ing is certainly an option but going through the forum I've seen cases where agents prefer not to CC the external user to the ticket but instead forward the email to the target. At least with the above, they could forward the update to the external user and they can reply back with an internal note. 

    Let me know if you have additional questions for me!

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  • Thomas Joussot

    Got it Brett, thanks for the clarification!

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Happy to help Thomas :) 

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  • Sunwing Vacations Inc.

    Hi Brett,

     

    I was able to set this up and got the response from an external email (target) go to the internal note.

    On the Assignee side of things, I created a trigger to notify the assignee that an internal note was added in the ticket. Upon receiving that email notification, I (as the Assignee) responded, the external email got my response but in Zendesk, it went to the Public Reply. Is there a way to keep the Assignee's response in Internal Note?

     

    Thanks,

    Albert

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  • Sunwing Vacations Inc.

    Hi Brett, 

    Just following up if you had a chance to review my question/business case?

    Thaks,

    Albert

     

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hi Albert,

    Is the agent replying back via email? If so, you can use the Mail API to reply back as an internal note. You'll just use the # note call at the beginning of the email.

    Hope this helps!

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  • Andrew J
    Community Moderator

    Awesome info Brett!

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  • Janet Wu

    Hi I set up an email target, 

    but when the external users reply the email, it doesn't add an internal note to the original ticket, but create a new ticket. why?

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hey Janet,

    Can you confirm you've set up the appropriate target and triggers so the response is added to the already existing ticket? If so, can you provide a screenshot of the target and trigger you've set up so I can take a look?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Lotte Litjens

    This is very interesting. Any idea how I can CC the external target automatically upon ticket creation? We want the reply from this specific target to always be public directly without agent touch. 

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  • Devan La Spisa
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hello @...,

    I did a little digging, and this user-submitted tip should breakdown how to CC the external target automatically upon ticket creation. 

    Auto CC user(s) on Condition (Ticket Create)

    Best regards. 

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  • Elisha Hawes

    This article is the closest solution I've seen in lieu of native forwarding so thanks!

    Here is my issue. Much of our forwarding would need to provide the external email target contextual information in addition to the formatted comments. This contextual information shouldn't be visible to the original requester.

    Rudimentary example:
    Hey third party, please review the comments below and send me an estimate. This is for account 123.

    Is there a way we can include additional comments (again not public to requester) to the email target?

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hey Elisha,

    AFAIK there wouldn't be a way to accomplish this outside of using the API.

    If they were agents on the account they could use the mail API to make sure that their comment is sent as an internal note, but these would need to be sent in a separate email.

    Otherwise you may want to look into the side conversations feature which would allow you to have separate conversations within a single ticket directly from the agent interface.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

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  • Alexandre RICHARD

    Hey @...,

    Is it mandatory to add the [{{ticket.encoded_id}}] at the end of the subject? Or is it possible to place it at the beginning of the subject? Any possibility to have it in the mail body instead?

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hey Alexandre,

    In my testing previously I couldn't get this to work when including the encoded ID in the email body.

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  • Casper Søe-Larsen

    Hey Brett,

    I would like to be able to have a conversation with the e-mail target (vendor) without letting the ticket requester (customer) knowing it. If the agent needs to sent the target a response to their mail it would require to create a new public comment with the result of the requester (customer) getting the response like a ticket update. 

    Is it in anyway possible to edit the trigger so that the e-mail target only recieves when the agent uses internal comment? I have tried this but when I change conditon to Comment -> Is -> Private/present the email target (vendor) only recieve the original public post. 

    I know that I am trying to make a workaround a Professional plan and Side Conversation app. 

    Thank you, mate! :) 

     

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  • Brett Bowser
    Zendesk Community Manager

    Hey Casper,

    I'm afraid agents would only be able to see these internal comments on a ticket. If you're trying to notify an end-user using a target then the expectation is that they would only receive the public comments on a ticket. I can't think of any sort of work around to this outside of using the Side Conversations functionality.

    Let me know if you have any other questions for me!

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