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Mastering Zendesk

By : Cedric F. Jacob
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Mastering Zendesk

By: Cedric F. Jacob

Overview of this book

Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service solution that is widely used because it is easy, efficienct, flexible, and low cost. It is highly scalable and is great for organizations of all sizes. If you’re a Zendesk administrator and are looking to explore advanced-level concepts, then this book is for you. It covers the core functionalities such as managing users, groups, and the organization, and creating and adding custom fields. You will learn how to add customized ticket channels to your account. Then, you will focus on customizing business rules and extending Zendesk with JIRA and Salesforce. Towards the end, the book emphasizes security and troubleshooting aspects as well as providing tips and tricks to create a more efficient support environment. By the end of this book, you will be able to turn a basic Zendesk setup into a highly customized working environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Zendesk
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Zendesk apps


Whenever we miss a functionality in Zendesk, our minds should wander off towards creating a custom app. Let's review a few app ideas without going into too much detail.

Custom tagging app

Zendesk tags are very useful. However, adding and removing tags can be a tricky process, known to be prone to error. Too easily can we remove or misspell a tag without noticing.

If adding and removing tags plays a part in your workflows, creating an app for it can make a huge difference.

We can use a simple HTML script to display two buttons on our layout:

Some CSS magic can add the final touches, making the buttons look less boring:

The end product is not very impressive. I will leave the final design touches to you:

Let's move on to the JavaScript part of the app. The structure would look something like this:

We start by listing our events and assigning a function to each one of them. The functions themselves are only placeholders outputting some text. After displaying our app and clicking...