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ray_r
Contributor ⭐️⭐️
February 18, 2016

Enhancement Request: Sync custom fields in Zendesk

  • February 18, 2016
  • 7 replies
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We've found that Case Severity in Zendesk is a custom field and therefore Gainsight cannot pull this information over. From a health score perspective, some organizations might find it suffice to create a rule that adjusts the customers support health score solely based on number of tickets open/closed, but in our organization we have SLA's that require a certain level of attention/response time for high priority tickets. In turn these tickets would have a much more severe impact on our customer health score, but since we cannot bring case severity over and build rules off of that specific criteria the value we get from Zendesk integration is limited to being able to read ticket descriptions and see how many tickets a customer has in the customer 360 page. Since that same information can be accessed with 1 click or keystroke outside of Gainsight it cripples the value one can get from Gainsight's Zendesk integration. 

    7 replies

    sidhu
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    February 19, 2016
    Hi Ray, 

    Thanks for posting this idea. We are currently thinking through how we can start syncing custom fields into Gainsight. I will keep you posted as we make progress. It is our intention to support this use case. 

    Thanks, 
    Sidhu
    seth
    Expert ⭐️
    February 22, 2016
    This is a solution that isn't really a solution, but, to display tickets in Gainsight, we use the Zendesk-to-Salesforce integration instead of the Zendesk-to-Gainsight integration. The Salesforce integration supports custom fields.
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    ray_r
    ray_rAuthor
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️
    February 22, 2016
    Actually, what you suggested is a work around. What I suggested is a solution.
    adam_bambrough
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    March 28, 2016
    +1 on this - we tag zendesk tickets based on type of ticket - and our scoring methodology &scorecard ownership (product or engineering) was based on tag inclusion & exclusio.... As it appears we cannot use any of the tags via the connector we now can't achieve meaningful scorecards with the zendesk connector which is v. disappointing 
    marika_zumbro
    Contributor ⭐️
    April 14, 2016
    Great to hear this in the works. Any updates on the timeline? This is huge for us. 
    allie_gold
    Helper ⭐️
    June 13, 2016
    Agreed 100%
    sidhu
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    Gainsight Employee ⭐️
    August 5, 2016
    Custom Zendesk fields except Tags would be synced to Gainsight from our Aug release onwards.