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Product Feedback: Guided mode in Zendesk - skip reason to be required for agents

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  • May 8, 2024
  • 9 replies
  • 3 views

Atanas

Hi Team, 

 

We will be implementing Guided mode in one of our instances, however we would like to request a couple of enhancements to the “Skip” functionality as it cannot be customized. 

 - We would like to be able to select an option where we can mark “Ticket Skip Reason” pop-up text to be Required (Mandatory).

 - We would also like to see an option where we can disabled the “Skip” button entirely, so agents will not be able to skip offered tickets. 


 This will give us more control and insight into gaps in agent knowledge, so they addressed in a timely manner. .


Currently we are not using any workaround for this.


Ideally, additional checkboxes can be added under “Roles” if permission is set to “Play views only”

9 replies

Shawna James
  • Community Manager
  • May 8, 2024
Hey Atanas,
 
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review. For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!

Sydney11
  • May 22, 2024

+1 we use guided mode and it is a lapse in reporting where we can't see why a ticket is skipped if we can't make it mandatory


  • Contributor
  • June 7, 2024

+1 and other threads begging for this


  • February 17, 2025

+1 Request to have this disable access. this will help us a lot on managing case queue. 

 


Barry Neary
  • Product Manager
  • June 4, 2025

Hi

 

Unfortunately all of our effort currently is going into omnichannel routing - is there a reason you cannot use this rather than guided mode?


Atanas
  • Author
  • Contributor
  • July 4, 2025

Hi @barry14,

 

We currently have various integrations running in this particular Zendesk instance where we have guided mode which is why we cannot transition to OCR at the moment.

 

This is why we are looking for an enhancement to the current feature to have options outlined in my original feedback. 


Barry Neary
  • Product Manager
  • July 7, 2025
Hi Atanas
 
Unfortunately no new work on guided mode is planned this year.
 
Note that if you have integrations that update the ticket and you dont want the ticket automatically assigned by OCR while that is taking place, you can use a timed skill to prevent the ticket from being assigned until all integrations have run.
 
To do this add a optional skill to the ticket that no agent has, and then drop the skill after x secs - this will give time for the integrations to update the ticket before the skills is dropped and it will be assigned to the next available agent

Atanas
  • Author
  • Contributor
  • July 7, 2025

Hi @barry14,

 

Thanks for the information, however for the moment we are not looking into transitioning to OCR and workaround does not apply for us.

 

Please confirm if these features will be developed or not, so that we can consider closing this thread?

 

Thanks.


Barry Neary
  • Product Manager
  • July 8, 2025

Hi @atanas 

 

We have no plan to develop this in the next 6 months