Workflow best practices and recipes


Workflow recipes reference

This article contains a reference list of workflow recipes. For a complete list of resources, see Workflows best prac...

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Workflow recipe: Using auto assist to create Jira issues for troubleshooting

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Workflow recipe: Building a product catalog with custom objects for customers to use

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Workflow recipe: Canceling and refunding a Shopify order with auto assist

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Workflow: Using omnichannel routing queues to handle active and inactive messages differently

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Workflow: Using queues in omnichannel routing to overflow calls to other groups

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Automatically adding comments and notes to tickets using triggers

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Workflow: Using skills in omnichannel routing to overflow calls to other agents

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Workflow: Using skills to route calls to specific agents

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Workflow recipe: Displaying ticket age in views

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Workflow recipe: Automatically closing tickets created by abandoned calls

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Workflow: Using omnichannel routing to manage calls

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Sending holiday notifications using triggers

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Fine Tuning: How to build your ideal workflow

This Fine Tuning is about what to consider when building your workflow, including: Triggers and Automations Business...

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Workflow recipe: Manage outages using SLA policies

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Workflow recipe: Deploying an update to a trigger

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Workflow recipe: Managing your escalation queue

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Workflow: Using custom objects to manage assets in Zendesk

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Recipe: Setting up basic request ticket forms (IT example)

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Recipe: Routing messaging tickets using ticket triggers (Legacy)

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Workflow recipe: Sending automated ticket reminders to customers [Video]

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Fine Tuning: Agent Productivity

This Fine Tuning session is all about agent productivity, and includes the following topics: Introduction Business r...

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Workflow recipe: Notifying External Email Addresses

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Workflow recipe: Using triggers to manage requests from important customers (custom org field)

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Workflow recipe: Using triggers to manage requests from important customers (multiple organizations)

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Workflow recipe: Allowing restricted agents to assign tickets to agents outside of their groups

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Workflow recipe: Setting up basic change management (IT example)

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Workflow recipe: Setting up a change management process wizard (IT example)

Overview The Change Management Process Wizard is intended to be used by organizations that already have some sort of ...

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Workflow recipe: User and Organization Fields (Internal IT Example)

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Workflow recipe: User and organization fields (software support example)

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