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Add formatting (rich text editor) to dynamic content

Not Planned


Posted Dec 31, 2020

PLEASE VOTE IF YOU NEED FORMATTING IN DYNAMIC CONTENT SECTION

The rich text editor could be available in dynamic content section with the following features: 

  • Increase/decrease heading style
  • Bold
  • Italicize
  • Bulleted list
  • Numbered list
  • Decrease paragraph indentation
  • Increase paragraph indentation
  • Block quote
  • Code block
  • Code span
  • Hyperlink
  • Horizontal line

So, the language variants could be formatted with a rich text editor as it is available for macros.

It's understandable that dynamic content features and their placeholders can be used in various environments like in macros, guides, ticket forms, so that might cause an issue. 

In this case, it might be smart to have different dynamic content options. For instance, there could be a couple of dynamic content text options:

  • Plain text option (current option where no formatting possible)
  • Rich text option (formatting is possible, the rich text editor is available)

Why would we need different text option in dynamic content?

  • Plain text option - could be used in the environments like guide or ticket forms (where the formatting is not needed or CSS can be applied via custom design option).
  • Rich text option - could be used in the macro-environment (It also could be used for automatic initial response where the user could be redirected to guide)

Here is the visual idea of it:

In our personal case:

  • Currently, we have around 15 brands in Zendesk, and each brand is going to be served with multiple languages so the formatting is really needed in dynamic content.
  • It also would be great to use it in automatic initial response (currently set with triggers, since the formated text in triggers might wouldn't be possible too, then there might be a need to add something as initial response template where formated text could be sent to customers).

    Especially painful is not to have bold, bullet, numbered and hyperlink options there and thus we cannot facilitate readability for our end-user. :/

* Automatic initial response stans for notify requester of received request.

Thank you! 


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Yes please! AND (or ;-)) for macro's it would be great if you can add dc/language variants right in the macro itself. Just like a Guide article! The rich editor is already available there, it would be so easy if you could add translations in the macro itself!

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+1 please

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Sydney Neubauer

Zendesk Luminary

+1 to this feature

We are adding designated customization per Brand and right now we are needing to have just plain text in the placeholder and then configure the formatting in every single trigger (50) so when it comes time to update the formatting, we have to do it 50 times vrs once within dynamic content

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+1

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+1

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+1 - Having these options would be great and make our team's lives so much easier

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+1

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Shawna James

Community Product Feedback Specialist

Hello everyone thank you for your engagement and expressing continued interest in the feature area. I want to update this thread that I spoke with our PM team in this product area and they have confirmed that, while this is a valid feature request, there are no plans today to implement this in our product roadmap.
 
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. Not having the features you wish you see at Zendesk prioritized is an understandably frustrating experience. 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.
 
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 understand that this decision may be disappointing to those who are interested in this feature.
 
At this time we are going to close this post for comment since we have the information and interest needed should we ever prioritize this in the future.
 
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