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Automatic Refresh in Views
Posted May 27, 2021
We would like to propose an automatic refresh in the Views.
Situation: New or updated requests (tickets) are received and is not being pushed automatically to the appropriate views.
Impact: Some of our teams have very time sensitive SLAs. Each team is different, but some have 15 minute response times or less and deal with a high volume of tickets. They are currently using a lead triage model instead of the play functionality. (Play has a refresh rate of 5 minutes from the documentation which is 33% of one of our current SLAs and could still cause different Support Agents to have tickets appearing in different orders in their views.)
Current workaround: A Support Agent needs to click on each of the views to manually refresh them. This workaround is not very efficient and adds extra stress for our Support Agents.
How we would solve the problem: Add auto-refreshing capabilities similar to gmail.
Thank you for considering our request to help not only our teams but many other Support Agents.
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132 comments
Daniel Hamrick
This extension is currently working as of today
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zendesk-refresher/kbnadckimgmhcchlnoddmihobfmloocp
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Will Martin
Daniel Hamrick
This one is maintained by me. There are some reports of it not working for some users, but I'm not sure why.
Please let me know if it ever stops working for you, and I'll create a fix.
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Daniel Hamrick
Thank you Will, much appreciated!!
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Anam Zarif
Any updates on this as it does affect the way zendesk is used. We did expect this to be a standard feature integrated however we have been using a chrome extension which now does not seem to work and is affecting workloads and SLAs for the team. One of the reasons why we joined zendesk was the auto refresh
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Neil Robb
Extremely keen for View auto refresh to be implemented ASAP
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Zendesk Team Illation
Adding my vote to this
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Marc Rawlins
Yes this would be helpful.. add my vote
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Александр Майзук
Can't believe that such a needed and easy feature takes you more than 2 years to consider.
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Rebecca Weifenbach
Are we able to get an update on this? It seems to be a must-have for many clients.
Thank you!
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Wade Kunnas
OK so we are well over 2 years in to this request and I see that it has not been added yet. With the comments about the Chrome add on not working properly I am not willing to request my company to add this Software to our accepted list of applications. When will this feature be added?
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John Polanek
We just recently enabled omnichannel routing on our account, which auto-assigns tickets to agents. Even with this, the agents need to constantly refresh the view to see the tickets they are assigned. This defeats the purpose of routing tickets. Refresh should be the default for all account levels. With a support team like ours, that does not often have a backlog of tickets, they need to refresh to see all new content. Zendesk, please make this a priority, as this is a much-needed feature for all.
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Wayland Magee
Zendesk - Please comment on this request and provide an update on your progress on this. We need the ability for views to be auto-refreshed. This is already available in other products like Freshservice. This needs to be prioritized and become a standard feature in Zendesk.
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IVAN KATALINIC
Very basic feature, should be implemented ASAP.
Please don't let it continue sitting just as a request for many more years to come. This is better described as a bug report than a feature request.
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Karl Maamets
The strongest department in Zendesk must be sales, cause the product itself doesn't seem to be getting that much attention, given that this is still a major problem that most other competitors have long since solved.
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Ali Brubaker
Hi @Salvador Vazquez
Thanks for the update. Can you specify for us which use cases from this thread will be resolved with the new dashboard?
Kind regards,
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Karl Maamets
"not planned" ...... my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Imagine if you had to physically refresh your gmail inbox or facebook messenger to actually know if someone wrote you something.
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Debra Garzolini
Disappointed in the latest update that Zendesk will not be adding this feature.
Has there been any reason announced for deciding to not add the feature? Is there a benefit?
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Jakub Tabaka
This feature is very needed, especially in zendesk messaging where you can only see active conversations via a support view. Neither agents not managers should be constantly refreshing the views in order to see all the active conversations!
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Shawna James
I understand how our recent updates about this feature not being prioritized might have caused frustration because we didn't reference our guidelines in this post. Product feedback that is provided in this space is not guaranteed to be included on any product backlog or roadmaps. While we listen and read every piece of feedback that comes through this forum, in some instances, our product teams need to make the tough decision to work in a direction that is not aligned with a particular piece of feedback. This Community forum is simply for sharing your challenges and how you use the product, but it is not a case/resolution system. In this instance, the PM team is focusing their energy on better reporting for Views which needs to be prioritized at this time.
Also, per our guidelines and code of conduct, I want to remind folks that we expect all community members to adhere to respectful discourse in this space. Feedback and constructive criticism are welcome. Disparaging, harassing, mean, or snarky remarks about Zendesk, its employees, vendors, partners, or other community members will not be tolerated.
The most recent update from our product team remains our official response to this feature request: we understand the validity of this request however we are not prioritizing this feature at this time. We again understand that this decision may be disappointing to those who are interested in this feature.
If you are interested in learning more about the future of Zendesk products, please visit the What’s New page which is updated on a monthly basis.
We value your feedback and business, and we look forward to our continued partnership. Thank you!
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mws
We moved away from Zendesk last year, and I'm so glad we did. What a simple issue to have so much feedback from your customers on and then just completely ignore it. Some things can be termed as an "extra feature" - but this is not one of them. Having a simple area that refreshes to show new tickets is absolutely a given/standard for any ticket system. Imagine if Gmail (or....literally any email client!?) said this wasn't available but "they'd consider it as an extra feature".
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Snoody McDoobles
It's crazy this is still not on the roadmap. We periodically check in on this because we'd love to switch to Zendesk, but cannot permit third party chrome plugins to do this (they've also been broken by browser or Zendesk code updates) and cannot require staff to continuously manually press the refresh button to check for new tickets.
What features has Zendesk created or improved in the past 4 years where this has not been a priority?
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Colleen Ryan
Seems so elementary. Even Freshdesk has this ability. Can we please make this happen!
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D.Fitz
+1 for this
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Jordan Premick
Pretty nuts that this hasn't been implemented in almost 4 years. As innovative as ZenDesk has been since coming to market over 15 years ago, some core features that competitors are bringing to market are starting to make ZenDesk look stale.
The reporting features are great but UX and speed for responses needs to be a key focus going forward.
The lack of an automatic refresh is an oversight.
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Git-Zen Support
It's not perfect, but a workaround may be using an extension for your select browser.
For me, I would search "Google Chrome Auto Refresher extension" and usually a few things come up.
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Nicolas Distefano
Hi team, there has been a while this feature is being requested. Most of the agents keep their views at sight to see if there's any update on them. Not being able to refresh it means we are forced to switch screens to check our emails or slack channels, and this is not a good agent experience. Agents should be able to manage everything from one place, and that's the direction Zendesk is going to with its Agent Workspace and other related features. Not sure this one, one of the most important ones, is not part of this effort.
Please consider prioritizing this.
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Jordan Premick
Git-Zen Support
That's a cool extension but if that runs while a team member in the ticket, I'm assuming that'll mess with their experience. The views themselves should be refreshing/working in the background so whether the user is using PLAY or coming in and checking the views, it should have up-to-date information within ~3 minutes.
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Marc Rawlins
We need to get away from from 3rd party apps as your main solution. They simply dont work, buggy, and not a great experience for the customer or for the agent. There has to be solution.......
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Marc Lafortune
We need that feature, I agree with everyone else… Agent needs to know when a ticket get in to allow them the full SLA time to work on it properly. Please priorize this feature as most others already do it and have been doing it for a long time.
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Shawna James
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