Ticket export tool for End-users (Export tickets by organization)

Big +1 for this for this feature.

• What is the problem?: Clients cannot generate reports on their own support items  
• Why is it a problem?: One of our largest clients wants us to move to a different product that has this feature. About 1/2 of our clients have also requested this. Our client that have coordinating departments & need to communicate support tik statuses regularly cannot do so freely. We have the extra task of generating reports any time we are asked
• How do you solve the problem today?: I (an Admin) use Advanced Search to generate reports for clients as needed. Clients require fields available through Advanced Search. The output requires me to reformat each time I create a report 
• How would you ideally solve the problem?: Add feature that allows clients to generate Advanced-type, pre-formatted reports
• How big is the problem (business impact, frequency of impact, who is impacted): Huge impact. Not just an extra task on our side, but clients are recommending we move away from Zendesk so that they can have this feature

Agree with John Pollock. We are several large clients demanding this feature. They two are pushing us to use a different tool so they can have this feature.

We've had numerous requests from our end users for this as well.

• What is the problem? There is an online list of tickets for user, or organization, available online. End users cannot report on this easily, and cannot export to excel or other software to report.
• Why is it a problem? Our customers could have a large number of tickets open and would like to be able to report to their upper management on our productivity and their outstanding issues.
• How do you solve the problem today? We create a report in Insights, mail automatically on a daily basis to an agent, and have them forward to the user who requested. This is extra work for agents who could be solving tickets. And insights doesn't update in real time so the statistics are out of date as soon as they arrive.
• How would you ideally solve the problem? A button in the "my requests" page to allow export to csv, as you can in Insights.
• How big is the problem (business impact, frequency of impact, who is impacted). We have around 30-40 automated reports each week. This around 40% of our customer base. I suspect if we asked, the demand would be higher, but as we don't have the option for ad hoc reports, we've not highlighted this as an option to our end users.

Thank you very much for the detailed response, Donna. 

We are experiencing the same challenge as Donna and would greatly benefit from this feature especially as we scale.

Thanks for sharing, Kristen. 

Since I posted on 3/30/2018, even more of our clients are requesting or demanding this feature. Because of this, my manager is having clients try out a Zendesk competitor (I guess I shouldn't name that software here) which allows admins to create custom reports and make them available by Organization(s). The "shared" reports can then be run or export at any time by the client. 

Because this feature is in such high demand, clients are considering the switch in spite of the facts that 1) the competing software looks like it was written in the early 2000's 2) The competing software is far less user friendly, intuitive & less "brand-able" 3) clients will need to learn an entirely new ticket mgmt system 4) the competition's customer supports seems to be 2nd to Zendesk

Please keep this in mind when considering the priority you place on this new feature request

In my opinion, Zendesk is far better than this... well... downgrade that we are proposing to clients. However, this one feature could outweigh Zendesk's superiority in all other areas. I'm not sure if clients have given feedback to my mgmt yet, but when they do I'll share the info that I'm allowed to pass on.

Thanks!

John

Thanks for those details, John. Hearing about the impacts such as the ones you shared are really helpful details for the product managers. 

We also have a customer requesting this feature.

Our customers are looking forward to have this.

Hi Helpdesk 2 and Emilie - 

Can you tell us more about your use case? What the problem you're trying to solve is, how frequently it comes up, etc.?

Hello Nicole,

Our case is to provide a way for our B2B customers to export the list of requests they can see in their help centers.

As they can see the requests of all people from their organization, it would be easier to have an overview of these requests without the pagination.

Thanks.

Thank you, Emilie!

Hi Nicole & All,

I've posted here a couple times before, but only recently thought about the Marketplace as a possible solution. I haven't found an application yet that offers client-side reporting but I'm wondering...

• Is it possible that a Marketplace application might do what we're looking for here?
• Are you aware of an application I missed that has offers this feature?
• If client-side reports is not a feature on your development team's hit list, is it possible to ask a Zendesk partner about it?

I'm throwing Hail Mary's now as I've been asked to test-migrate all our tickets to a trial of the competitor service I mentioned in my post from a couple moths ago. I'd rather stay with Zendesk than move to the other software, but unfortunately the decision isn't mine.

So that unhappy message before a good one...

Thanks & Happy Thanks Giving!

John

I've found that you're able to create custom ticket exports within Good Data. This is a viable work around...

Thanks for your responses Nicole & Quinton. To clarify, are you saying that Good Data has functionality that can resolve the problem discussed in this thread? That is, it allows configuration for clients to run/export reports on their side, as needed?

Or is mention of Good Data just a "BTW" for another way to create reports generally & not a resolution to this thread?

Thanks again!

Hi John, 

What Quinton is suggesting is that you could generate some custom reports and schedule them to export to the end users who are seeking them. But end-users would not have direct access to generate those reports themselves. 

We would like this feature for the same reasons that other people have already listed.

1. What is the problem? There is not a way to easily review tickets
2. Why is it a problem? Our customers want to be able to easily review tickets.
3. How do you solve the problem today? We show them how they can search by organization and sort
4. How would you ideally solve the problem? Have the users be able to select fields and dates that they want to export to reports. IMPORTANT: They should not be able to export internal notes.
5. How big is the problem (business impact, frequency of impact, who is impacted)? Currently, we don't have a lot of customers requesting this but we have had people ask for it now and then. I anticipate this will be a growing concern. 

Thanks

We have over 100 clients using Zen Desk to open / update tickets.  Several have asked for a way to pull tickets from the Portal. This would be a welcome enhancement for us. 

PLEASE add this feature. It may be the determining factor of us changing products after many successful years with Zendesk. Unfortunately the need for this may trump other fabulous features in Zendesk.

I have posted on this request before but here is a specific use case I am running into today. 

We have an organization opening rapid fire tickets over the past couple of weeks.  It's become clear we have a project here, not break fix support.  I would like for the customer to export out all their tickets, tell us which are still active (as so many are pending) so we can build a project plan from it.  But instead I will need to build a customer specific view, do the export myself and send to the customer.

Got exactly the same situation as @Jodie. Any update on this, @Nicole?

I get this request all the time from our clients. Please consider adding a simple "export" option for end users to export their list of tickets.

• What is the problem? Customers cannot export their list of tickets (mostly they'd like currently open or recently solved).
• Why is it a problem? They need a list they can review and distribute easily in a meeting.  All the folks involved with a ticket may not necessarily have Zendesk access. A simple list makes reviewing open and recently solved issues at a high-level meeting simple. A list also can be customized for quickly added notes before and during the meeting (rather than having to open each ticket up to take notes).
• How do you solve the problem today? Someone either manually re-creates the lists of issues, takes a screenshot, or asks an agent to download the list. There are also a few accounts where we generate a weekly/monthly ticket report in Insights that is sent to the account manager and then forwarded to the client. 
• How would you ideally solve the problem?  Allow an end user to export any list of issues from the Zendesk portal.
• How big is the problem (business impact, frequency of impact, who is impacted). This impacts customers who have at least 10+ issues going on at any one time or during a major project. Some of our clients have multiple regions/users and therefore regularly have several tickets open at any given moment. 

Thanks for your comment, Melissa. 

@Marcel - we have not heard any updates from the product team on this.