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Ticket Sharing - How to reference tickets between different instances?

  • April 24, 2019
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Chris34

Has anyone come up with an effective way —preferably automated— to translate the ticket hyperlinks between instances in Ticket Sharing?

Scenario:

Our company's support teams span two separate Zendesk instances. We've established ticket sharing between the two with the following rules:

  • Comment and status permissions = Make private comments; do not sync status.
  • Tag synchronization = No, do not share tags between me and the receiver.
  • Allow syncing of custom fields = Yes, sync custom fields between me and the receiver.

Things work well, but one challenge we've encountered is that the ticket's dynamic hyperlinks (e.g., #123456") don't translate between instances.

Team A's ticket #123456 is a completely different ticket/link than Team B's #123456. Because of this, referencing other tickets in a ticket's body has become very cumbersome at best, but mostly useless.

Does anyone have any recommended workarounds?

Thanks!

Chris

 

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Dan28
  • April 25, 2019

Hi Chris, 

I think the available workaround today is to create links in your comments that use the full ticket URL instead of relying on Zendesk's auto-linking for tickets that start with #. 

There are similar challenges outside of Zendesk to Zendesk ticket sharing scenarios (linking other system ticket numbers), so this workaround would scale in those situations too.