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Categorizing Common Ticket Areas in Zendesk

Learn how to categorize support requests into product areas using custom fields in Zendesk to identify common issues.

What are the most common ticket areas and how can I categorize them?

Categorizing support requests into product areas helps identify common issues. You can add a custom field to your tickets to categorize them. This allows you to see which areas generate the most support issues. While prebuilt reports don't include custom fields, you can create your own reports in Explore using the Tickets dataset. Focus on metrics like ticket volume per area and average resolution time to improve customer support.


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