views should include the condition "subject"
Posted Dec 31, 2012
creating this on behalf of customer
currently views doesn't support the condition "subject", so one cannot really restrict the display of tickets depending on subject line. while it's possible to get around this with triggers and tags, it'd be nice for views to have the condition to look for specific words / strings in ticket subject
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Nicole Saunders
Hi Maik,
I'm not a product manager ( manage the community) so I can't speak to exactly why this hasn't been prioritized.
What I do know is that there has been a larger discussion around views, how we find and act on tickets, etc. going on for a while. So, individual, specific improvements have been on hold while the team figures out the longer-term vision for views.
I'll also note that, as stated in the product feedback guidelines, there is no guarantee that ideas shared in the forum will be developed; user feedback is one of many data points considered in roadmap planning. Sometimes great ideas don't align to longer-term strategy for the product, the direction the industry is going, etc.
The age of a request also does not factor into prioritization. Most of the time, an old post reflects a lack of appropriate community moderation in years past. To that end, we are in the process of working on improvements for how we intake and act on customer feedback in this space; in the future there should not be years-long requests that linger. More information will be forthcoming about these process improvements in the coming months. I encourage everyone to subscribe to the Community Info & Announcements topic to learn more about that, as well as opportunities to share your feedback and ideas.
Having said all this, I have flagged this conversation for review by a product manager, and we'll do our best to get an update posted here in the next several weeks.
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Maik Künnemann
18547870908 please give us a update. We dont understand why this requested exists since 2012 and is not implemented until today???
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CJ Johnson
It's been 9 years and this hasn't been updated to show if it's considered, on the roadmap, not planned, anything. Any chance of getting some sort of idea if this will ever be possible? Has anyone written a workaround tool that does not involve adding more tags?
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Eckhard Doll
Might be a good time to add this rather simple feature after all these years.
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Pierre Nilsson
Yes! Please add.
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Sarah Bowers
I'm frustrated that I can't manually add tickets to a specific view. Is there a way to do this?
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Sami Immonen
Upvote from here as well. Sorting views based on a subject should be a "no-brainer" functionality.
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Morning Ellergrace
One person in a company can muddy the entire Zendesk by creating a form that dumps hundreds of tickets into the new ticket box. This could be solved by creating the option to make a view to exclude these tickets... if you could filter views by subject.
Please consider making this a priority.
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Seneca Spurling
Nicole,
Thanks so much for your response. I really appreciate it. I feel heard :)
I do understand and appreciate the complexity of managing a complex software product's releases and product features.
What would really make a difference, I think, is if the company provided its customers with *some* sort of visibility into the decisions that are made. For example, if a feature request has been considered, what are the major categories of "not currently planned" reasons, that you could potentially share without it being a problem? "work required to customer benefit ratio too high", "planned for a future release bundle", "not enough customer demand", "only affects a small number of customers", "workaround is of low impact", "depends on other changes not currently planned", "will be addressed by a future release", etc. What I want to know is why THIS request hasn't been acted on in nearly 10 years. Is it because not enough customers want it? Is it because it actually would be really hard (for reasons I can not fathom but may exist) and so it depends on other future work that will take a long time to see the light of day? Is it because changes to views functionality are planned for a later bundled release and this one will wait for that? Is it that you'll never do it because the workaround seems reasonable to most of your customers? Is it simply that only small customers or not enough customers need this?
I guess I'm trying to figure out if Zendesk product features tend to be driven mainly by the needs of the workflows of larger customers, or if less common workflows like ours can ever get their needs addressed. When requests like this go unmet for 10 years with no explanation as to why, it's easy to assume the worst. If you don't want people assuming the worst, a little transparency goes a long way.
Which brings me back around again to thanking you for your response, which, while not actually answering my question, did really make me feel heard and gave me some hope for hearing more about the future of this request some day. It also made me realize that our team often uses views very differently from how Zendesk intends views to be used. Which makes me realize that Zendesk might provide other functionality that would better meet our needs. (or, maybe it doesn't and isn't a great fit for how our team operates). I'll look into this further and will reach out to support for further guidance as this isn't the right forum to get into those weeds.
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Nicole Saunders
HI Seneca,
Thanks for your post. This forum is just one of several input points for roadmap planning, so sometimes there are things that a lot of users have requested or that was originally requested a long time ago, but it still doesn't make it to the top of the priority list. We also look at other inputs from customers, market predictors, and other features being developed that might solve for a particular solution.
I don't have specifics about this request, other than to say that there's been a larger consideration around how tickets are "discovered" (i.e. searched and viewed) in the agent interface. As the product teams are looking at the larger functionality, they aren't adding individual features, conditions, filters, etc. Typically features are not developed on an individual basis, but rather several will be grouped at once.
I will raise this thread with the product manager again to ensure that it is being considered as they plan for the future of views.
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