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Zendesk - How to detect if I Change (before submit) Requester Name in opnened Tickets.

  • July 25, 2022
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Hi everyone,

I have a server side app, which display customer info such as name, id, email etc based on currently opened ticket.
My next task is to update the Requester name in Zendesk App ( server side app ) if i made changes in Ticket Requester before submit.

is that possible?

5 replies

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  • July 25, 2022

Hey @richestsoft!

Changes you make to the requester of a ticket will be available to the ticket.requester object immediately, even before you hit submit. This means that you'll be able to access the new requester data in your app and manipulate as needed be prior to the ticket being saved e.g:

const getRequester = async () => {
const requester = await client.get("ticket.requester");
const requesterName = requester['ticket.requester'].name;
console.log(requesterName);
};

I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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  • Author
  • July 26, 2022

Thank you for you response.
This is not working for me when I change requester name.


  • Author
  • July 26, 2022

I am sharing my script what i am trying to do.

Its a server side app developed in nextJs

const [requesterName, setRequesterName] = useState(null);
const getRequester = async (client) => {
const requester = await client.get("ticket.requester");
const _requesterName = requester['ticket.requester'].name;
console.log(_requesterName);
setRequesterName(_requesterName)
};
 
var client = ZAFClient.init();
getRequester(client);
the function getRequester(client) is getting called onLoad

in the html section

<p>{requesterName}</p>

  • Author
  • July 26, 2022

Update

 

the following worked for me.

if (client) {
    client.on('ticket.requester.name.changed', function(e) {
        console.log("name is :", e)
}); }

 


Tipene
  • July 26, 2022

Hey @richestsoft,

Thanks for the update - I'm glad you've got it working!

Have a great day :)

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