Zendesk is customer service and support ticket software. With Zendesk, you can offer excellent customer service for 24x7 support to help your customers answer their own questions. With Help Center, you can build a knowledge base, community, and customer portal that fits in seamlessly with your brand in a matter of minutes.

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Field (Account) Information

While configuring the Source or Destination of a Template or Transaction, you need to create an account to connect Zendesk with Adeptia Connect. While creating an account, you need to specify the location from where Adeptia Connect will access the data.

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Specify the following information for Zendesk:

Field Name	Description
Account Name	A short, descriptive name that helps you re-use this account in future.
Domain Name	The Zendesk domain from which the details are to be retrieved.
Client ID	Client ID to login to Zendesk. Retrieve this ID from Zendesk Admin Interface (Admin > API > OAuth Clients) as shown:
Client Secret	Client Secret to login to Zendesk. Retrieve this secret from Zendesk Admin Interface (Admin > API > OAuth Clients) as shown:

Triggers

A Trigger specifies when a particular Transaction will start executing. While configuring the Source of a Template, you need to choose an event.

Following triggers are available for Zendesk at Source.

Trigger Name	Description
New Group	Triggers when you add a group. Once you add an organization or a company, you can create various groups for the organization. For example, if you are managing technical support for Shark Industries (organization), you can create various groups - one each for HR, Finance, and Development. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661966-Creating-managing-and-using-groups
New Organization	Triggers when you add an organization. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661976-Creating-managing-and-using-organizations
New Topic	Triggers when you add or modify a topic. Topic is the subject of your ticket. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203664406-Managing-community-content-in-the-Help-Center#topic_dqx_znw_3k
New Ticket	Triggers when you add or modify a ticket.
New User	Triggers when you add or modify a user. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661986-Adding-end-users-agents-and-administrators

Actions

An Action specifies how the data will be transferred at the destination location. While configuring the Destination (Target) of a Template, you need to choose an action.

Following actions are available for Zendesk at Destination.

Action Name	Description
Create Category	Creates a ticket or a forum category in the web portal. Depending on your forums and content, you might want to organize your forums into categories. You can have multiple categories in your Web portal, with multiple forums in each category. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203663616-Setting-up-and-managing-your-Web-portal
Create Forum	Creates a forum in the web portal. Forums are collections of articles that might include news and announcements, knowledge base articles, community questions and comments, and frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Create Forum Subscription	Creates a forum subscription. When a person is subscribed to a forum, it means that they will be sent email copies of every subsequent post in that forum.
Create Group Membership	Adds a support agent to a group.
Create Group	Creates a group. Groups are used to manage organizations. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661966-Creating-managing-and-using-groups
Create Item	Creates an item. Dynamic content enables you to create a standard, multi-language responses that can be re-used in macros, triggers, automation, and selected settings fields. For each dynamic content item, you can create a language variant for each language available in your Zendesk.
Create Organizational Field	Adds a custom field for organizations. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203657596-Announcing-custom-user-and-organization-fields
Create Organization	Creates an organization. Organizations are collections of your users (both end-users and agents). Each user can be added to only one organization. The use of organizations is optional, but by arranging your end-users into organizations you can keep track of what those organizations are requesting. You can also enable users within an organization to see each other's tickets. This expands the visibility of the organization's support issues and should reduce the number of duplicate tickets.
Create Organization Subscription	Creates a subscription for an organization.
Create Recipient Address	Creates a recipient address. This is the address to which support replies are delivered. There can be multiple recipient addresses for an organization.
Create Request	Creates a request. A request is an end user's perspective on a ticket. End-users can only see public comments and certain fields of a ticket. Use this API to let end-users view, update, and create tickets to which they have access.
Create Ticket Field	Adds a custom field to tickets. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661496-Adding-and-using-custom-ticket-fields
Create Ticket	Creates a support ticket. Tickets are the means through which your End-users (customers) communicate with Agents in Zendesk. Tickets can originate through a number of support channels: email, web portal, chat, phone call, Twitter, Facebook, and API. All tickets have a core set of properties.
Create Topic	Creates a forum topic.
Create Topic Subscription	Subscribes to a topic. When a person is subscribed to a topic, it means that they will be sent email copies of every subsequent post on that topic. A topic can span multiple forums. For example, a topic such as security could be present in a forum for a business application, and in a forum for operating systems.
Create User Field	Adds a custom field to user profiles to store additional customer details. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203662066-Adding-custom-fields-to-users
Create User	Add a user to Zendesk. For more information, click https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203661986-Adding-end-users-agents-and-administrators