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Change the order of the comments as an agent when viewing a ticket

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Posted Aug 04, 2020

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https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047182454-Sorting-of-comments-INSIDE-a-ticket

I could not find an existing post in the "Feedback on Support" topic about this so I'm creating one, as I would like this, too. I'm not a supervisor, but I often have a need to review a bunch of older tickets. In this cases, I would much prefer to be reading from the oldest to the newest. When I'm actively working a current open issue, I prefer to read the most recent first - so the way it works today works fine for that use case. But every time I need to review a customer's past tickets, or past tickets that touch on similar topics, it's very inconvenient to have to begin each one by scrolling to the bottom then scrolling up.

If I could easily switch the sort order, this would enable me to quickly and much more easily switch back and forth between the mode of "working on an active ticket" and "looking at older tickets".

It would be far better for me if the solution to this enabled me to switch the display order with a simple click at the top of a ticket, rather than a per-use setting that I'd have to go to my user preferences to change. The menu where one is able to switch between Conversation and Events would be a great place for this. e.g. change it from:

Conversations
Events

to something like: 

Conversations (ascending)
Conversations (descending)
Events

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+1 To make this work, as its madness

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My team is conplaining so much we are considering doing away with Zendesk.  We loved it up to this point.  One of my team (when we first started using Zendesk) said "you will have to take this from my cold dead hands" now he is begging me to find a solution or throw it away.  

I see by lack of priority that this is being viewed with, that I will have to throw Zendesk away. 

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Sorting the comment thread would be great. Even better: the ability to sort and save as the default sort. This is one of the primary reasons we have not moved to Agent Workspace. Our team almost exclusively uses Support via email and web form, which is more passive. The oldest -> newest sort is better suited for real-time communication, like Chat, which we do not plan on implementing. As such, the flow of the thread is not particularly conducive to what our agents are doing. 

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Agreed our company is thinking of other platforms since there is no talk of adding a simple filter on comment sort direction

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Sam, we are in the same situation, but Zendesk has already sent a notification that our support experience will be "upgraded" early March. So, they are forcing us to switch to this "experience"...

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Eckhard Doll ask your account rep to put a freeze on this. I don't know how long that will hold, but we've had them do this until this feature is implemented as the damage to our workflow from scroll-fatigue would be very high. 

Will state again that we're ready to switch to the new interface and utilize new features, but are primarily blocked on this single item.

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Will this ever be a possibility? 

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+1 email is our primary channel and the sort order with Agent Workspace makes viewing long threads more difficult than before we made the switch

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We do not have Agent Workspace because of this. Please make a setting in Agent Workspace to change the order of comments like it is when Agent Workspace is not enabled.

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This would be a very helpful feature, and not a particularly hard one to implement. 

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I vote for being able to rearrangeging tickets again. 

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The worst part is the newest email isn't even really at the bottom when you get a reply from your contact. Because they reply with the past email thread attached the newest section to read is actually in the center of the full history making responding to discussions beyond frustrating. I've had to take many discussions out of Zen desk to outlook due to this. Which would not be needed if they were properly sorted from Newest to oldest.

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Another voice chiming in - this simple change has made working within Zendesk (where nearly 70% of our tickets are via the email channel, most of them with 3 replies or more) incredibly aggravating. Please switch it back, or give us the ability to make the order decisions ourselves. 

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Another +1 on this feature. Our support team is going to be pushing back hard with our account rep on switching over to the new Agent Workspace until we get the ability to configure the comments sort order to meet our needs. We haven't been forced to switch yet, but it sounds like we may be up next.

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We've been using Agent Workspace since last August and the ordering issue is still very irritating.  As most other commenters have mentioned, we're solely email based so when we have multiple entries in the tickets of emails that themselves have multiple responses, it's very difficult to see what is the most recent response in the latest email chain.  Being able to sort newest to oldest would be my preference but at the very least, maybe toggle the background color from one public update to the next so it's is easier to determine where one begins and the other ends.

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+1 for this, everyone has already given the reasons. Our org was forcibly switched to the Agent Workspace and so far this is the biggest and major drawback. 

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My company was forced to Agent Workspace on Monday and WHOA...

This sorting is a HUGE problem for us as well. We have cases that last months, have extremely lengthy comments, and all of our Agents have been having a really hard time with this, this week.

Not only this, but even our customers using our Portal complain of the same thing in the Support portal.

Why did Zendesk not take this into consideration initially? This is a very big issue for people who use Zendesk day in and day out and I know there are several threads about this ordering old to new. When I open a ticket, I want to see the latest update from my customers, not the first one they put in when they opened the ticket, that is old news.

Is there any update when ordering will be fixed in Agent Workspace? Otherwise, I will be discussing moving to a new platform with my company as well.

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We were also forcibly switched to Agent Workspace and were able to get our instance reverted to the legacy interface by opening a support ticket and repeatedly voicing how unusable Agent Workspace is for us. The whole back and forth process took a few days. Hopefully this helps someone else.

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Do you have any update ? With the new agent workspace, the order has been changed. My team is lost since..

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Linked comment from Amisha Sharma - this is such a BS answer.

They forced something, and if they will make a change in a year nobody will care anymore. Some will get used to that, some will move somewhere else. Also they are saying you can opt out - but somehow for us (end last year) it was not possible.

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+1 for this ability

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We have moved to the New Agent Workspace and, while we do like some of the features, the order of messages is a real problem. It has slowed our workflow and we really do not like it. It is incredibly disappointing that this request to have that control for ascending or descending order has been out here for at least 3 years and on your new and improved workspace you still do not have that option open to customers. Different customers have different needs and there is a certain level of arrogance to assume that all businesses will use the workspace in the same way. This feels like a fairly basic feature that you could offer to your customer experience. 

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#TRUTH    this has been pending way too long!

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This is a big source of complains.  Is there a roadmap for that ? 

Is workspace mandatory (will it become mandatory ?) 

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This is causing confusion and frustration for our CS agents - it's hard to find the true NEWEST comment since it's not fully at the bottom, but rather at the top of the bottom-most comment. Please allow for an adjustment back to newest at the top.

Thanks!

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This annoys me every single time I have to work a ticket.  It's maddening...I can't believe Zendesk is being so difficult to add this feature.  We are able to set up the view we want in our email clients, for example, for this exact reason!  The thing we care about most is AT THE TOP which is why we want it put there!

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I guess they are not going to do anything about it till their customers start leaving their platform

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maybe they don't see our comments because they need to scroll to the bottom :P 

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I just forwarded an email thread from outlook to the support email. The first 10 responses in this chain were in outlook. It is beyond ridiculous that to follow this ticket thread, you have to start at the bottom, read upwards 10 responses, then return to the bottom of the ticket to read my additions to the ticket. Zendesk, fix this already. This is appalling. 

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