Why are some Zendesk ticket IDs missing?
Why are some Zendesk ticket IDs missing?
Ticket IDs in Zendesk might not be perfectly sequential due to several reasons. The most common causes include ticket deletion, failed ticket creation in the agent interface or request form, and API ticket-creation failures.
When a ticket is deleted, its ID remains unused. Similarly, if a ticket creation attempt fails due to missing required fields like subject or description, the ID is skipped to maintain unique incrementation. API-based ticket creation can also fail for various reasons, leading to skipped IDs. To verify if a ticket was ever created, you can use the Incremental Ticket Events endpoint of the API with a start_time of a previous ticket's creation. If no record exists, the ID was skipped due to creation failure. If the ID appears in the results, the ticket was deleted. For more details, visit theoriginal link.
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