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Feature Request: Triggers - Action: Add Internal Note as a trigger action
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Posted Mar 28, 2016
Triggers have lots of Actions, but those don't include the ability to add an Internal Note. In some instances, if a case meets certain conditions, adding an Internal Note (with pre-fab text like a macro) would be really helpful.
For example, if an Account Manager submits a case without the client on thread. An automated note could be posted to tell them to add the customer, instead of support manually sending a response.
An internal note could also remind the Agent of something (for example to timebox a case based on tier or to switch the Requester to the customer instead of internal contact).
Right now there is no way to automatically add a text string as part of a Trigger.
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Nina Olding
Hi all, thank you for your feedback! It's always helpful to hear from the community about ways we can enhance the product. At this time, we have no plans to implement this functionality. There are workarounds to achieve the desired results, as some others have mentioned, but we aren't currently implementing this feature. Thanks again for the feedback and as always, continue to share your thoughts and use cases with us.
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ZZ Graeme Carmichael
Satia
While comments cannot be added as part of the built in trigger actions, you can use a target. See Phil's tip here:
Link removed by the Zendesk Community Team. Post has been archived due to outdated information.
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Erin the mentor
Hi Satia,
It sounds like you're mainly trying to assist agents with next steps, is that correct? Just want to make sure I understand your use case. We don't have any plans to add the ability to add comments via triggers, but we are interested in exploring the problem space of additional, automated guidance for agents.
Best,
Erin
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Satia Stevens
Hi Erin,
Thanks for following up. Reading through the threads, it seems we have the same use case as was stated by other customers:
For our second use case, being able to add an internal note via trigger would speed up response time. For example, an account manager submits an inquiry without the customer on thread. A trigger could populate an internal note reminding them that the customer must be included for reporting purposes. The account manager updates the ticket, and then the support agent responds.
Currently there is a manual exchange between the agent and account manager, which wastes time.
Thanks,
Satia
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Eric Paul
We have a similar need. Our current need is that customers have certain requests or requirements that are unique to them in how we support them. For example, when we test in their instance we have to test with a certain population, etc. These unique requirements are very difficult to manage and are easily missed when in a notes field on the organization, but if we could have the internal note put this information right in front of our agents it would greatly improve our ability to support effectively and accurately according to our customers requirements, thus improving customer satisfaction and reducing escalations and angry calls to our customer managers.
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Lucie Debouver
Hello!
We also have a similar request. Right now, we use automations to send agents an email as a reminder that a ticket has been untouched for a certain amount of time and that action is required. Ideally, the support agent does not have to check their email to stay on top of their Zendesk queues. An internal note would cause a Zendesk app notification to go out. This is the main reason why this would be helpful for us.
Thanks!
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Gary Jackson
+1 on this! Would love to be able to add an internal note depending on the "Organization" name.
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Greytip Software Pvt Ltd
Any update on this? I would like the agents not to miss out any important information for the client
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Ricardo Camarena
We are also looking for this functionality. Would love to hear if and when this would be implemented
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Patrick Harland-Lee
+1 for this, we need a way to notify the agent that there's something about the organization that separates the workflow of all tickets coming in from them compared to other organizations.
Though I wouldn't mind if there was some other way to do this (say, highlighting the Organization button in the top-left of the ticket).
I would prefer this wasn't an app, because often our agents will hide the apps bar because they work on laptops and it takes up too much screen real estate.
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Bruno Roy-Contancin
+1 Same need. Thank you.
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Rick Nelson
Same need here
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Chris Ryan
The comments from Zendesk staff about this feature request are pretty hard to believe!
"No plans to support this feature" , etc.
Clearly a feature to allow actions to update an internal comment as a part of a trigger is in demand based on the existence of multiple threads with users scrambling to configure their own setup through the API as well as requesting this feature.
What is even more interesting is some of these threads have been around for a long time with inter-linking between mostly dead-end, unhelpful threads that pertain to this issue.
Please Zendesk help support the needs of your clients by adding this feature formally and rolling it our to our accounts.
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Heather Rommel
We wish we could do this natively but found the Target workaround very helpful as Graeme mentioned above:
Link removed by the Zendesk Community Team. Post has been archived due to outdated information.
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Laura
+1 for this feature. Thanks!
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Pierre Grenier
Hello everyone,
We actually tried to develop this feature in our Zendesk Support product. The creation of a ticket comment (note or public) will make your triggers start again (so while triggers are running, we restart all the triggers again... this leads to what engineers call a race condition). In fact, during our testing phase, we discovered that we may convert trigger-based private notes in public comments... which would break all trust you have in Zendesk.
Instead of developing that specific feature, we would like to understand why you need this feature (because there are probably better ways to address your underlying issues)
From having talked to customers and read this thread, we know that automatically posting a comment (note or public) solve any of the following issues:
1- Explain to other agents/admins why a ticket was silently solved/closed
2- Provide the agents with an easy way to see in the ticket audit trail what workflow-based message the end-user has received
3- Provide a troubleshooting notes for the agent who will next be assigned to the ticket (i.e. "hey this ticket is about XYZ and you want to be mindful about A, B, or C”)… something that Satia, Eric Paul, Gary Jackson, Patrick Harland-Lee, Vijayendra…
4- Send an app notification to an agent (instead of just an email notification) that a ticket needs attention… something outlined by Lucy
5- Send a notification to the people CCed on a ticket when you solve a ticket without adding any public comment.
Would you please let us know why you need this feature (feel free to add other reasons not listed in #1-5) and also the impact it has on your team?
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Aaron Olson
This would be a great feature, I sent out automated message to customers to help keep tickets moving that have been in pending status at 2 and on the 4th day. I would like to make a note in the case letting the agent know that the system performed a custom action so they do not duplicate the message and on the 5th day they can resolve the case.
Right now there is no way for the agent to know in the case that the system performed any action.
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ZZ Graeme Carmichael
Aaron
Just in case you are not aware. When looking at a ticket, changing the drop down from 'Conversation' to 'Events' will display all the actions taken on a ticket including triggers and automations.
This allows Agents to check for system performed actions.
But I totally agree that allowing an internal comment would allow greater visibility to these important actions.
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Aaron Olson
Thanks Graeme that is a good workaround but with other trigger and events that can get cumbersome.
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John Lundgren
I would also like to have this feature within Zendesk. We send automated followups every few days and it would be nice to be able to track them in the ticket (date/time sent) with an internal only update. We also have other automatic updates that happen as well and again it would be great to be able to have an internal update to the ticket stating "Hey, this automation happened".
I understand that this could be done via a manual update to the ticket, but doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of an automation altogether?
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Maurits Vos
Hi,
Just stepping in here.
Our use case for this feature would be that we have different SOP's for some customers. We ship spare parts internationally and sometimes we need to make sure that certain documents are prepared for customs purposes or that there is a specific setting in the order that needs to be taken into account before the order is submitted in the system. Forgetting to do so may have financial implications for our/the customers' business
We do take notes in the user/organization profile and use the "user date" app to remind our agents, though an internal comment or similar feature would be a better safety measure in our case.
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Nicole Saunders
Thanks for the details, Maurits.
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Håkon Kippernes
We have a case where the data from users in the ticket forms are editable by agents. Since we only have 8-10 employees most of us are admins for convenience. We therefore need a copy of the ticket fields added as text in the ticket for documentation purposes. A trigger with placeholders that spits out a comment with all the information added in the ticket form is needed for us to use the ticket forms at all for the brand.
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Andrea Brown
Our use case is that we share a lot of tickets between our various Zendesk accounts (still using the Hub and Spoke over here), and we need the user's email address to appear in the ticket in the Hub. Because it doesn't come as part of the ticket, we want to have it as an internal comment. In our case, our agents can't help our customers without their email address about 90% of the time - so we'd take the email address any way it comes over, but we definitely need it.
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Jamie Danjoint
This has been stated by others, but getting in on this vote:
Life in Software Support is insanely busy and you're going a million miles an hour. Relying on an Agent to go to the Organization tab to view important details about a client or rely on seeing the slew of tags that get added to the case just isn't feasible.
We store very important information on the org tab (ex: who has permission to request and approve configuration changes to their applications) that is easily overlooked. Please, please, please think outside the box on how we can get this accomplished.
THANK YOU!
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Vlad
Huh, my clients really need this pretty basic feature :/
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Jimmy Rufo
My Use Case:
I'm testing the side conversation feature in the Collaboration Add-On. When I send a side conversation to an escalation resource, I'd like to trigger an internal note to the assignee and/or the ticket group for the ticket in question, for awareness that an escalation happened and what the question was. A reply back from the side conversation recipient would also ideally create an internal note for ticket continuity and transparency.
Right now, triggers for email can take place with replies to side conversation, but there doesn't appear to make the comment private.
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Juz
This is a really basic feature. Our support agents need to have all info shown to them straight up in the one screen.
For emails from some domains, or with particular subject lines, there's a standard set of things that we need to remember or refer to.
We therefore want tickets from those customers to get a text automatically copied in as a comment into the ticket.
There is the workaround at (Link removed by the Zendesk Community Team. Post has been archived due to outdated information.) which goes most of the way. However the slightly reproving tone from the Community Manager's comment there is not helpful.
The explanation of a race condition given above also seems somewhat out of place. Other ticketing systems manage to provide this function, so it's not a far-fetched or computationally impossible feature request.
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Nicole Saunders
Hi Juz -
Thanks for the feedback. Improvements to business rules are on hold at the moment while the development team works out what is on the roadmap for Support in 2019. But we have flagged this for review once work on business rules is reopened.
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Peter P
+1 automatic internal comments would improve efficiency and productivity allowing the agent to check customer info at first sight and/or following basic instructions to handle that case.
The use of the User Panel to leave notes results in a very confusing, not intuitive and easy-to-miss workflow. Besides, agent may shrink the panel! i.e. bye-bye info!
Thanks
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