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Anyway to stop a merge ticket from being marked as solved?

  • June 7, 2022
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Hey everyone, I am trying to set up some metrics and analytics. My numbers are skewed because we get a lot of notification emails in our ticketing systems when something fails or has an error. 

We then merge those tickets into ongoing tickets, which is good, but, it marks them as solved. So when I go do my reporting for avg ticket solves for each employee, some are skewed because they are the first to merge tickets, and in turn get more "solved" numbers toward their contributions. 

Is there a way to stop merged tickets from being marked as solved?

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CJ99
  • June 7, 2022

Not that I am aware of, but! You can remove these from reporting by excluding tickets with the tag "closed_by_merge".  There's a guide to writing a custom filter for this in Explore, here: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408843359898-Explore-recipe-Excluding-tickets-closed-by-merge

I have this and a handful of other filters that I call "basic report filters" that I keep documentation for anyone who builds reports, to remind them what things they may need to filter out. 


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  • June 7, 2022

oh excellent ill give it a try 

thanks!


Dave12
  • June 8, 2022
Thanks for that answer, CJ!