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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Official comment
Hello folks,
Thank you for the great feedback on rearranging order of ticket comments between ascending and descending. As of right now this isn't possible, but it is being considered for the future roadmap.
Please upvote the request for this, and feel free to comment as well.
Once we have more detail to add, I will be sure to update everyone! -
We switched form the classic view to agent workspace and my agents are absolut unhappy with the changed order. As more unhappy they get when I said there is no configuration for this.
So Please prioritise this (small) feature.
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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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Our customer complain that when seeing their tickets on Help Center /your requests it is difficult to stroll down to add comments; as it is in here as well. It is annoying to find the newest in the bottom and write your comment on the bottom.
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+1 for this. We get quite a lot of complaints from our agents since this update.
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I cannot believe that the feedback being provided re sorting will not result in a prioritisation of the item to be added as an urgent item to the roadmap. It's not that hard to add the sort surely?
Sorry but this is showing a clear lack of listening to the customers needs and only focusing on what Zendesk think we want not what we think we want.
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My agents are all complaining and it hasn't even been turned on 3 hours yet. Some are investigating other ticketing systems simply because of this change.
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Is there any update on when this will be configurable in Agent Workspace? This is a blocker for our teams as our tickets get quite large and oldest first would dramatically damage our workflow.
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@... Appreciate the update. Note: this is the primary reason we have not switched over to Agent workspace.
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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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Please add an option to sort the view with the newest replies on the top.
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Our reason as well not to use Agent workspaces is the WRONG order of comments on tickets.
ALSO, our customers are complaining about it's wrong order of comments in their requests views in HelpCenter (just like in here in your Community comments it is annoying to go some threaths pages and pages until you find the latest comment). -
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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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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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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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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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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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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+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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This would be a very helpful feature, and not a particularly hard one to implement.
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The ability to change the order would be highly appreciated.
To be more precise, we would be OK with the newest message on top, if the ticket would actually load showing the latest message instead of the first message of the ticket.
When opening a ticket, we always have to scroll down first. If it would auto-scroll to the bottom, that would be great as well.
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+1 for this ability
Switching to Agent Workspace is already a big change for our Agents. We would like to limit the amount of change they experience and having the comments remain the way they are used to would be a huge plus.
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Kolten Kittleson just reiterating that this is still the primary reason we haven't switched to the new interface. This remains a blocker for my team as it greatly impacts our workflow to have comments in the last->first.
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I totally agree. This is a VITAL feature before we can proceed to the new interface. We just onboarded our Logistics department and they have really long conversations on a ticket. Due to the way tickets are sorted right now... for instance when the requester writes back from i.e Outlook (descending), all of the convo(replys) is pasted into the ticket and thus the newest response is not even in the bottom of the ticket window (ascending view) and you have to scroll through the previous responses to find the exact reply that was just given. This results in our department having to scroll through the ticket, spending alot of time figuring out where the newest response is... i get the overall idea behind having it mirror an omni-channel messenger setup, but this just doesnt work for larger conversations with outlook users, where the order is different.
Another thing which bothers me in general - why havent you made the interface support more views and customization hereof ? (this is an integral part of the work flow in a bigger multi department setup) and also the possibility of having a hierarchy of views ---> this in general means more control over ticket flow and suits the whole "agent workspace" interface idea. This should be standard and not something you have to buy from a 3rd party developer.
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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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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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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.
It's a pretty strange thing that this isn't configurable. Why not let us change it? -
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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