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Can't re-assign an email request

  • April 26, 2021
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Hi,we have many accounts in Zendesk and only set one admin account as the assignee to receive all email requests.For my understanding,admin could re-assign the tickets to agents,while seems not.Even admin changed the assignee of a ticket and submitted,the assignee will still keep as admin. Could you help give an explanation or tell if there is some settings could be improved.Thanks!

7 replies

  • April 26, 2021

An admin can definitely assign to another agent.
Possibly the trigger you use to assign to the admin is firing again and assigning it back to the admin. Check if this is the case, and change the trigger to fire on ticket is created rather than updated.


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  • April 27, 2021

It fixed now,thanks!


Nicole17
  • April 28, 2021

Glad you were able to get things working! Thanks for sharing your answer, Andrew!


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  • April 29, 2021

Sorry,the case happened again.Seems Zendesk is not stable in assign mechanism recently.Please see below screenshot:

I changed the assgiee to Baily Wen and submitted the ticket as open, while when I saw the ticket in my view,the assignee is still the obvious one.Could you help check the possible reason?

By the way,we are currently create ticket via email and setup the first assignee via Zendesk trigger.


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  • April 29, 2021

Not sure what do you mean "fire".Actually in last time,I didn't do anything and it fixed automatically,but happened today again.


  • April 29, 2021

I mean, change the trigger condition to be ticket creation.


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  • April 29, 2021

Got that,thanks