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Janine12
July 3, 2025
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Auto Assist - Change the behavior of the Approve button

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  • July 3, 2025
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Our agents don't find the behavior of the Approve button intuitive. When we introduced Auto Assist, many of them accidentally sent a reply to the customer before they were ready at least once, because they are so used to only the Submit button sending the reply.

 

We would prefer if there were only the option to “Accept” the suggested text and actions, then the actions are applied (not performed - similar to macros), and the text is copied to the regular editor. 

 

This would also avoid awkward situations where Auto Assist is correctly suggesting to set the ticket to solved, but the ticket still has an empty drop-down for a field that is required for solving. Agents first have to fill the required field, submit the ticket, and then approve Auto Assist. If they forget, Auto Assist won't perform the solving action.

Edit to add: When agents edit an auto-assist reply and then accidentally click “submit as pending” before approving the text, their reply will be gone and can't be restored. This is especially frustrating when it was a longer text.

cc Andreas Ackermann Johannes Lober 

    7 replies

    Dan Dillenbeck
    Product Manager
    July 3, 2025
    Hey Janine,
     
    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!
    市原11
    July 17, 2025

    I support this suggestion and would also appreciate seeing this behavior improved.

    Amisha11
    Employee
    July 30, 2025

    Hey everyone,

     

    Thanks for creating this post and engaging here. 

     

    I'm one of the product managers on the Agent Workspace team. I'm currently working on understanding how your experience is like when working with auto assist, particularly your experience with the UI layout we provide for auto assist today. I'm looking to chat with customers and would appreciate if you can let me know on this post if you're open to a chat. Please do not share your personal details here. If you confirm that you're open to a conversation, I'll proceed by sending you an email to coordinate a time. Thank you!

    Amelia11
    July 31, 2025

    @amisha11 I am interested. 

    Janine12
    Janine12Author
    August 6, 2025

    Hi @amisha11, I'd be happy to share our experiences in more detail.

    Shawna James
    Community Manager
    May 1, 2026
    Under reviewAccepted
    Femke VS
    June 2, 2026

    Hi, can you give an update on the status of this request? We’re facing the same issue internally and would love to see this changed. Thanks! 

    Femke VS