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Lookup Relationship Fields and Ticket Escalation
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Lookup Relationship Fields and Ticket Escalation

Lookup Relationship fields are a recently added features that expands the existing user, organization and ticket fields with a new type. This new field type allows you to interlink Zendesk objects and create relationships. In this article we build a complete use case.

Thomas Verschoren

Thomas Verschoren

— 6 min read

Lookup Relationship fields are a recently added features that expands the existing user, organisation and ticket fields with a new type. This new field type allows you to interlink Zendesk objects and create relationships.

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A ticket can have an approver. A user can have a manager. An organization has an account manager, or a parent organization. Or a ticket can be linked to a third party responsible for resolving it. Similarly when an account manager looks at Zendesk, he sees as a list of the customers he manages and can quickly jump to their timeline.

However you turn it, Lookup Fields allows for linking users, organisations and tickets in new ways independent from the old ticket, requesters organisation hierarchy.

Automatic Ticket Escalation

The video below shows an example flow that leverages Lookup Fields to find an organisation's' account manager, and add them as a Follower to the ticket.

The flow runs as follows:

  1. Organisations in our instance have an Account Manager stored in a Lookup Field.
  2. An agent uses the Escalate to Account Manager macro.
  3. That macro adds a tag to the ticket.
  4. A trigger runs and it adds the Account Manager of the organisation as a follower to the ticket.
  5. From now on, the account manager stays in the loop of the ticket.

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