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Calculating Business Hours Duration in Zendesk

Explore how to calculate time duration in business hours in Zendesk, including available datasets and external methods.

Can Zendesk calculate time duration in business hours?

While Zendesk provides metrics like Open status time, it does not natively calculate time duration in business hours within the Support: Ticket updates dataset. Business hours metrics are available in the Support: Tickets dataset. For calculating durations in business hours, you might need to export data and perform calculations externally, such as in Excel, to exclude weekends and holidays.


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