Change the order of the comments as an agent when viewing a ticket
See
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
-seneca
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How can you be that ignorant to your userbase. We have a whole department hating this. Preventing them in doing their jobs
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I've sent a complaint about it, and have not received any helpful answer - just few form texts saying how great new system is.
And contacting Zendesk support is a mess - it feels like they are making it more complicated to stop people to contacting them. I hate "You can reach us in your messaging widget if you still need help"
Looks like it's time to look around at another products
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+1 for this feature
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I have to agree with the consensus here. We have not switched to Agent workspace at this point, and this would be a big roadblock for us.
I don't even need to have the ability to sort.... just change back to have the latest comment at the top. It is more important to have better workflow for my team than for me to review older tickets on occasion.
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@Bruce you say you have not switched to Agent workspace, how did you accomplish that? ZD has force-switched us twice now, and I didn't know there was a way to stay in the old workspace?
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I should say we have not been switched yet, it isn't really up to me. My understanding is that it is a bit of a rolling deployment, it just hasn't reached me yet.
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Please allow the reverse order of comments. My entire team would LOVE to adopt workspaces but we are dead set against moving unless we can put new comments at the top and old comments at the bottom. Why force us to scroll down every ticket?
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Please read the below like the Spartan: (and shout it out loud)
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My agents and end users are also complaining, as the order is now totally upside down respect to emails.
When we receive an email, the last comment comes on top, and the last/original comment is at the bottom.
When submitting an existing thread to Zendesk, then the comments coming from the email threads and from Zendesk are totally messed. Everything is upside down.
This makes reviewing the last comments totally impractical, when tickets channel is the main ticket channel.
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Im on Zendesk for Trial, this is really annoying that the old comments is first. One of our Agents just sent out a new parcel after they answered they received it since they did not notice the last comment. I dont understand why this not should be standard to re-sort the comments?
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I know speak for the staff of my entire department and I'd like to join the requests that correspondences be viewable and sorted with the oldest comments first.
It is remarkably inconvenient to have to scroll up to read everything for full context. Please consider making the implementation of this feature a top priority!
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I justed switched to Workspace, and first was happy to see that nothing changed.
Then i saw the reverse order when opening a ticket. :-(
This is disastrous for the performance of agents on tickets. Newest entry on top , and the empty textbox for new entry above is the MOST efficient way of reading, its basic UI design.
now there is a lot of useless information your eyes and brain have to process before getting to the important part of latest entry and entering new info.
- must be a system wide setting, to reverse this.
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This is sad that with all the complaints about the comments order and you will do nothing about it
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None of our agents like the new workspace and everyone was unhappy of the automatic switch. Specially, the main complain was about the order of the comments/notes. We all want the older descending order back (newest to oldest).
Is there a way to revert back to the old view? Please advise.
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Come on... We need to vote by our legs!
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Hello everyone,
We have updated the official comment for this request, and want to thank everyone for the great feedback! Check out the comment that is pinned to the top of the discussion.
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“Being considered for the future roadmap” is a disappointing update to this important item. We’ve already spoken to our rep and will be delaying the deployment of the new interface as long as we can while we wait for this feature. We really want to use the new interface and all that goes with it, but this change would have too much impact to justify it.
Please listen to the community and figure this out.
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We've just been forced into this new agent workspace and we hate it. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have new messages at the bottom needs to take a long hard look at their life. There is a very good reason new emails are sorted in top down order in your mail client which is that it doesn't make any sense to read from the bottom up. Zendesk is basically an email viewer. Why would you do this?
If someone sends us a long email mid way in a support thread, we have to start searching for the top of their email then read back down. This makes literally no sense whatsoever. Why would you do this?
Honestly looking at reviewing our support provider if this ridiculous change isn't reversed soon 🤬
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But isn't it a global trend? Here is default Gmail view
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Anton just because it's a trend doesn't mean it's useful. Most of us who don't like this feature are coming from the previous ZD interface, where the newest reply was on top of the thread, saving on unnecessary scrolling. For long threads, scrolling all the way down can be a real PITA.
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I'm supportive that we should give agents the most convenient way to work with tickets.
- For emails, the top-down is the traditional and most suitable way to work, at least for me.
- Chats - the other way around. The latest message is at the bottom.
I think UI should be optimized both for real-time and email channels, and you can't have a solution that works both ways perfectly. It should be adaptive.
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By not allowing us to choose the sort order, Zendesk is making it clear that they prioritize/prefer customers whose primary channel to support their customers is chat/real-time, not email.
Unfortunately for us, email is the right choice for our company's support.
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It's very disappointing that the comment order was changed in Agent Workspace without providing an option to choose comment order ascending or descending. Please consider offering this in the future.
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Any updates on this or an ETA when we can sort messages on newest first?
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There was an option to change the order of comments before. I wonder why Zendesk decided to remove it in the last update. Our support team need tis option back.
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Please provide us an update when we will be able to choose the order of comments.. you are stopping us from moving to the new platform and the new custom ticket status feature we have been wanting to use for the last year.
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+1 we also need to change order of the comments under the issue description. Please, take it in process.
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Event this is so frustrating to roll down to found out the latest comment. Zendesk, please let us choose whether new comments are on the bottom or first.
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Please make this work! This was the first question I got after we started using ZenDesk.
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+1 To make this work, as its madness
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