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Follow-ups Not Reassigning Tickets When Agents Are Out of Office

  • December 26, 2024
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I’ve enabled the Follow-ups feature in Zendesk, which is supposed to copy the original assignee and group to follow-up tickets. It sets the follow-up ticket's assignee and group (if not already set) to the original ticket's assignee and group.

However, I’ve noticed an issue: when agents are out of office, the follow-up tickets are not being reassigned automatically. Has anyone else encountered this?

After reviewing the documentation, I saw a note that this feature may not work properly if the Zendesk OOO app is installed and the Force Unassign Tickets checkbox is enabled.

My questions:

  1. If I uncheck the Force Unassign Tickets option, will it cause any issues elsewhere?
  2. Do I also need to uncheck the Prevent Assignment option for follow-ups to work correctly?

Any guidance or tips would be greatly appreciated!

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  • January 22, 2025

Unchecking the "Force Unassign Tickets" option in the Zendesk OOO app should resolve the follow-up ticket issue without causing other problems. However, you might also need to uncheck the "Prevent Assignment" option to ensure follow-ups are assigned correctly.


  • May 29, 2025

Thanks for sharing @edward20 !