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TextExpander is not working as expected in Zendesk
Posted Mar 30, 2022
Post Title:
TextExpander is not working as expected in Zendesk.
Feature Request Summary:
Third party tool TextExpander which is used for creating powerful shortcuts and abbreviations is not working as expected in Zendesk.
Description/Use Cases:
Agents who are using TextExpander tool in our organization are facing issues in Zendesk when using it. The application works perfectly fine without any issue in other areas like notepad, browser, chat applications etc.
Example: The agent has TextExpander software installed in his laptop, he has configured few text shortcuts in TextExpander. The shortcut ';;hello' should replace 'Hello, Thank you for contacting us, How may I help you today'. But, it is being replaced with 'Hello, Thank you for contacting us, How may I help you today;;hello'. The issue is the same with every other text shortcut which the agent has configured in his laptop. It worked fine until before second week of March.
Business impact of limitation or missing feature:
This is slowing down agents work as they have to re-check the text again before sending it. They have to delete the additional extension every single time before posting to the customer tickets.
Other necessary information or resources:
We have identified other post which is similar to this issue, but it is related to browser extension. We suspect that issue might with Zendesk capture logs which are being captured while issuing key strokes. Kindly check and provide us a feasible solution for this issue. Thanks in advance.
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Neil
We have received similar reports and it seems desktop app version your agents were using is the one having issues.
Or team tested on the chrome extension worked, i.e. the preceding shortcut was removed when a shortcut was input.
Since the issue is fixed in one version of Textexpander, and broken in another.
It would be safe to say that this is an issue with the Textexpander software itself.
Since Textexpander is third-party software we don't have any control over how it works, the best course of action for this concern would be to raise this problem with Textexpander's support team.
As a workaround until the Textexpander team is able to resolve this, You can try switching to the chrome extension instead of the desktop version.
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