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January 16, 2017
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Create a Zendesk view with "mentions"

  • January 16, 2017
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I'd like to create a view in Zendesk where the current logged in agent see all his mentions. Is this possible? This makes it even more easier to follow up tickets even if you aren't responsible for it but someone asked you something.


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Tobias

14 replies

January 19, 2017

Hi Tobias

There is no easy way of doing this in Zendesk ticket views directly. There is a subsection on the agents profile that will show you the tickets they are CC on - I usually tell my customers to go to that page and bookmark the URL. The URL looks something like this:

https://company.zendesk.com/agent/users/1234567/ccs

The only other way i can think of is to add the CC through a Trigger and also add a specific tag. That way you can build views that will list tickets with that tag. But thats not a really good way of doing it.

January 19, 2017

Please add your feedback to this feature request! https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000451988-Create-a-Zendesk-view-with-mentions-. You can also vote if you are interested.

Tobias15Author
January 20, 2017

Thank you again @Carsten

@Zac i thought you provided me the wrong link?

January 20, 2017
April 19, 2018

Is there a way to do this in Zendesk? I'd love to keep my agents in zendesk instead of having to go back and forth with their email

Employee
April 25, 2018

Hi Tabitha!

It's not possible to add this to a standard view, but being @mentioned on a ticket adds the @'d user as a CC on the ticket. Your agents can view all the tickets they're CC'd on from the list in their user profile in the agent interface.

April 25, 2018

Hi - just wanted let everyone know that we have an app in the marketplace called Zendesk Mentions that can help your agents see where they are cced. https://www.zendesk.com/apps/support/zendesk-mentions/

October 18, 2018

@Carsten: the Mentions app is a wonderful idea, but this unfortunately isn't usable for larger ticket volumes -- it keeps all notifications without the ability to sort or dismiss. If a ticket is less than Solved and you're mentioned, the ticket persists in the UI. Not ideal for a quick glance at new mentions, not ideal for sorting through tickets across multiple channels.

Would love for the helphouse.io Mentions app to support more granularity -- it'd be a winner, for sure. :)

May 26, 2020

Help House's Ticket Mentions ("Zendesk Mentions" above) no longer works due to a change in Zendesk's backend and will be taken off their listing (I was told this by their customer support when I asked why am I getting errors when installing their app?).

Also, Zac's link above says I'm not authorized to view the page: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203425746-Add-cc-field-to-view-filters

We have agents that scarcely use Zendesk and need to focus on the tickets they're mentioned on so they can hop in and help. It is not their ticket, so re-assigning to them doesn't help/make sense, we need to consolidate their @mentions. Is there anything for this? Even the Zendesk home / dashboard only shows history of comments on your tickets.

Gail12
Employee
May 26, 2020

HI Abed,

That post you linked to was archived after product reviewed it, there are not currently changes on the roadmap related to this feature.

Your best option for having your team see those tickets in one place is going to be have them check their profile to view the list of CC'd tickets, or they could build workflows involving tags and business rules if they want to pull them into a different view. We have examples of both those options here