| Announced on | Rollout starts | 展示结束 |
|---|---|---|
January 30, 2023 |
January 30, 2023 |
February 2, 2023 |
We are very excited to announce that users can nowfilter their requests based on custom field valuesin thenew request list experience.
Additionally, we have improved the UI for showing and hiding columns by adding column search and making the interface more accessible to users using assistive technologies, in line with ourstrive to deliver experiences that everyone can use.
This is the second update to the new request list experience after itsinitial releaseand itsfirst update
Why did we build it?
We built the ability to filter on custom field values so that any user of the new request list experience can quickly and easily find the exact requests they need.
This is particularly useful for many businesses that are customers of Zendesk's customers. These B2B customers often file hundreds of support tickets a month with their vendor and the tickets are usually created through large and complex ticket forms with many custom fields.
In many of these cases, these hundreds of tickets are shepherded by a project manager or similar from the business that is our customer's customer. This new filtering capability saves the project manager time when having to follow up, provide new information, report to her organization, etc.
What is it?
Filtering on custom field values
Filtering on custom field values gives users of the new request list experience the ability to
- choose custom field values as filtering criteria
- 过滤请求一个特定的5ld is not empty (for some field types).
- Combine these custom field filtering criteria with each other and with filtering criteria on system fields to surface exactly the requests you want to see.
Improved the UI for showing and hiding columns
We have added the ability to search for columns to make it easier to configure your view when you have many custom field columns and in the process, we have changed from a dropdown experience to a modal experience to make it more accessible when you use keyboard navigation.
How do I start using it?
If you are already using thenew request list experiencethen you don't need to do anything. As we roll out the update your end users will be able to filter the custom fieldsset as readable or editable由最终用户。
If you are not using the new request list (in Open Beta) yet, you can seehow to get started here.
If you want to enable end users to see and filter fields that are currently not visible or editable by end users, you canchange the field's setting in the Admin center.
什么开放Beta mean?
This feature is in Open Beta so anyone can opt-in to using the feature as described above, but the feature is considered in a Beta phase as it still has key limitations.
What’s next?
Now that you can filter custom field values in the new request list experience the next releases as currently intended are:
- Supporting Custom Ticket Statuses
- Improved customization of the new request list experience
- Enable CSV download of requests
- Enable sorting on custom field, Subject, priority, and type columns
- Combining multiple organization filters.
Known limitations
The new request list experience still has some known key limitations, which is why it is currently in BETA.
Sorting of custom fields- and other columns
The requests list cannot be sorted by custom field columns, nor can it be sorted by the Subject column.
Look and feel Customization
The new request list is rendered as an encapsulated component, which means that it is not customizable as other advanced helpers by targeting the HTML. We have done this to allow for quick iteration of the feature without breaking any help centers with customizations. This comes with the limitation that the look and feel of the new request list experience are only customizable through theme settings where the component inherits colors from the settings the same way that the previous request list experience does in the Copenhagen theme.
Combining multiple org filters
In the “Organisational requests” tab you cannot combine organization filters to see tickets from more than one organization in the same list.
API rate limiting
The new request list is rendered client-side and uses public Zendesk REST APIs, mainly the Requests API, which means that it is currently subject to the account's rate limit. Our data shows that the majority of accounts and end users will never be affected by this.
Custom ticket status support
The new request list does not yet supportCustom Ticket Statuses(CTS).
15 Comments
Gorka Cardona-Lauridsenthis is great news.. When are we expecting the release with the sorting for custom statuses and the export to CSV? We have a lot of customers interested in this feature
Hi John, at this moment I can't give you an ETA, but it's not in Q1 unfortunately.
HeyGorka Cardona-Lauridsen, any ETA for CTS?
On customizing filters, will we have the ability to prepare sets of filters for our users? As only showing few user-friendly filter fields, to avoid an overflow of custom fields usually present although hidden in the Requests Form.
HiRafael Santos
I can't promise it, but I'm hoping for Q2. There are some dependencies that need to align.
If have taken note of this issue and will continue to monitor it, but right now there are other gaps that we deem more important. See this otheranswer here.
Awesome update as usual!
HiGorka Cardona-Lauridsen,
thank you very much for the update. It is very helpful for our customers. Especially the new window to choose the fields to be displayed. Although I fully agree withRafael Santosthat it should be possible to define the fields that are shown in the list. Due to form conditions, we have many fields with the same name displayed to the customer.
What we are missing is the opportunity to display the ticket form. This would be very useful for our customers, because we use forms so that the customer can decide for which product family he wants to make a request. Will that be possible in the future?
We are really looking forward to the next update and hope it will contain the CSV export of requests.
Regards,
Michael
Thanks for this, looking forward to using this!
Are there any API documents around the filtering? I'd love to start using this on some of our forms to surface previous tickets prior to submission.
Hello! Would it be possible to add the requester or requester email as selectable fields on the list?
Ron Ben Arziwe have this in our backlog of improvements for the new request list experience, but I cannot currently give an ETA.
Matt OwensIf I understand your use case correctly you should take a look at theTicket API
Do we expect that we will be able to customize the look of this feature using the style.css in the near future? This is an awesome feature but conflicts with our current theme
So I reported an issue a couple weeks ago on a marketplace theme (Zendesk 11620548) where there is some very odd behavior in the request area with this Beta functionality. Zendesk indicated that it was all on the custom theme side and offered me no solutions but I'm now questioning if this behavior is also happening on the Zendesk theme since the beta functionality is actually coming from you.
Mason BjerkeLook an feel customizability limitations is one of the reasons this feature is still in beta. We are trying to work out the right solutions and your feedback in this regard is very valuable.
Would you be able to provide a screenshot of your theme with the new request list to illustrate how much it is conflicting with your themes appearance?
Jennifer GillespieThank you for raising this. I'm having a look at your ticket.
Are there plans to add the ability to filter tickets by the Requester under the Organization request page?
Pleasesign into leave a comment.