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Track Customer Contact Reasons Over Time in Zendesk

Learn how to track customer contact reasons over time using custom fields and Zendesk's intelligent triage feature.

How can I track customer contact reasons over time in Zendesk?

To track customer contact reasons over time in Zendesk, you can use custom fields to categorize your tickets. Once categorized, you can create a custom report in Explore to track these themes over time.

The most effective custom field for this purpose is the drop-down field, which allows you to manually assign categories to each ticket. Alternatively, you can use Zendesk's intelligent triage feature, which uses AI to predict and set an Intent field automatically. This Intent field can also be reported on in Explore. For more details, check out theoriginal article.


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