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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

Chapter 3.  Creating Custom Fields

Being able to provide great customer support depends on a lot of different factors. One of them, without question, is having the necessary information needed to give the best possible answer. Therefore, it is a no-brainer that our end users should always receive the adequate tools, allowing them to supply us with these bits of information.

Equally important is that all these bits of information should be displayed in such a manner that our agents can encompass the exact nature of the request, as well as the surrounding circumstances. At the same time, we want our business rules to access these bits of information in order to make use of them.

There are user fields, ticket fields, and organization fields. In this chapter, we will cover all of them and analyze the different types of fields available for us and how we can use them in our project.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • What are fields in Zendesk?

  • Standard ticket fields (system fields)

  • Different...