Abilash Amarasekaran

The values are stored in custom field. It is different for every account. Use the GET ticket API to view the tickets custom values .

You can refer my answer if it helps.

How to add total time spent value via API – Zendesk help

I got this working. Thanks to help from Jongun Woo for figuring out how to do it.

The Total time spent is treat as a custom field and has a unique value to it.

You can get the custom filed value using the GET ticket using the following API

Tickets | Zendesk Developer Docs

Or you can right click on the "Total time spent (sec)" column header in the tickets view and look for this value in the HTML code

The highlighted value is the custom field value.

Once you find it you can use the create ticket API and add in the custom value as shown here

Creating and updating tickets | Zendesk Developer Docs

One last thing is the value is in seconds so please enter the value in seconds. 

Hi

I am using the time tracking app addon from Zendesk

https://www.zendesk.com/in/marketplace/apps/support/35111/time-tracking/

I really like the way the total time spent is tracked there. I am in the middle of a move from old system to zendesk ticketing system. In this partway move I need to use the old system to enter tickets, but a copy needs to be entered here in zendesk. 

There lots of blockers preventing me from creating in zendesk ticket in the first place. 

I am able to create new tickets via the API but unable to update Total time spent value.

I have reached out to support, and they requested me to raise a post here in the community. 

I found a similar post but no reply there
How can I get the Total time spent value from time tracking App through API? – Zendesk help

Can anyone help me solve this problem? or provide an alternate way to track time spent working on a ticket. 

Hi

Oddly the timing is perfect. I am also looking something similar capability via API.

I am looking to update the Total time spent value via API call when a ticket is created.