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Mastering Zendesk

You're reading from   Mastering Zendesk Master the art of providing effective IT services to your customers by leveraging Zendesk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461049
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cedric F. Jacob Cedric F. Jacob
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Zendesk apps

Whenever we miss a functionality in Zendesk, our minds should wander off towards creating a custom app. Let's review a few app ideas without going into too much detail.

Custom tagging app

Zendesk tags are very useful. However, adding and removing tags can be a tricky process, known to be prone to error. Too easily can we remove or misspell a tag without noticing.

If adding and removing tags plays a part in your workflows, creating an app for it can make a huge difference.

We can use a simple HTML script to display two buttons on our layout:

Custom tagging app

Some CSS magic can add the final touches, making the buttons look less boring:

Custom tagging app

The end product is not very impressive. I will leave the final design touches to you:

Custom tagging app

Let's move on to the JavaScript part of the app. The structure would look something like this:

Custom tagging app

We start by listing our events and assigning a function to each one of them. The functions themselves are only placeholders outputting some text. After displaying our app...

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