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Widget Text Placeholders Zendesk Help Desk Software API
The
The
The
The
- White Papers
- A Guide to Multi-Channel Customer Support
- An Inside Look Into How Groupon Does Support
- Guide to Customizing and Integrating Your Zendesk
- How To Support Your Customers with Twitter
- Saas Help Desk Software: Your 6 Requirements
- Selecting Help Desk Software for the Enterprise
- Zendesk for Salesforce: An Integration Guide
- Webinars
- Why Zendesk?
- Batchbook + Zendesk Webinar Integration
- Capture the Definitive Business Metric: Customer Satisfaction
- Customer Support Made Easy: Why Zendesk?
- CSS in Zendesk
- Customizing Zendesk to Work for You
- Get Satisfaction + Zendesk Integration Webinar
- Getting Started with your Zendesk
- Getting Started: Intermediate
- GoodData for Zendesk Webinar
- JIRA + Zendesk Integration Webinar
- LiquidPlanner + Zendesk Integration Webinar
- LogMeIn Rescue for Zendesk – Remote Support Solution Webinar
- New Release of GoodData for Zendesk
- Salesforce + Zendesk Integration Webinar
- SurveyGizmo + Zendesk Integration Webinar
- Sweeten your help desk with an integration to SugarCRM
- Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most Out of Zendesk
- Zendesk for iPad
- What’s New?
- Zendesk for Seesmic Desktop
- Zendesk for Twitter 2.0
- Zendesk New Community Features Webinar
- Zenfession: BigTent
- Zenfession: Postbox
- Ifbyphone for Zendesk Integration
- Customer Stories
- API
- Documentation
- Partners
- Newsletter
Mail API
Rest API
- Introduction
- Organizations
- Groups
- Tickets
- Attachments
- Users
- Tags
- Forums
- Entries
- Search
- Ticket Fields
- Macros
Widgets
Remote Authentication
Targets
Widgets: Widget Text Placeholders
You can use text placeholder in your widgets to include information about the selected objects in your help desk pages. If you wanted to insert the name of the user who is logged in to the system you could insert {{current_user.name}}.
Examples
Hello user
Hi {{current_user.name}}
Depending on what page a wizard is displayed on it has access to different text placeholders
The current_user Text Placeholders
All pages have access to the current_user placeholders if a user is logged in.
{{current_user.name}}- The name of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.first_name}}- The first name of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.email}}- The email address of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.organization.name}}- The organization of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.external_id}}- The external id of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.phone}}- The phone number of the user logged in to your help desk.
{{current_user.id}}- The id of the user logged in to your help desk.
The ticket Text Placeholders
Pages where you are viewing a ticket have access to the ticket placeholders.
{{ticket.title}}- Ticket subject.
{{ticket.description}}- Ticket description.
{{ticket.url}}- Full URL path to ticket (excluding “https://”).
{{ticket.id}}- Unique ticket ID.
{{ticket.status}}- Ticket status.
{{ticket.priority}}- Ticket priority.
{{ticket.ticket_type}}- Ticket type.
{{ticket.index}}- Attention score.
{{ticket.group}}- Ticket group.
{{ticket.due_date}}- Ticket due date (relevant for tickets of type Task).
{{ticket.latest_comment_formatted}}- Latest comment.
{{ticket.latest_public_comment_formatted}}- Latest public comment.
{{ticket.all_comments_formatted}}- All comments, latest first.
{{ticket.account}}- Help desk name.
{{ticket.assignee.name}}- Ticket assignee full name (if any).
{{ticket.assignee.first_name}}- Ticket assignee first name (if any).
{{ticket.assignee.last_name}}- Ticket assignee last name (if any).
{{ticket.requester.name}}- Ticket requester full name.
{{ticket.requester.first_name}}- Ticket requester first name.
{{ticket.requester.last_name}}- Ticket requester last name.
{{ticket.organization.name}}- Ticket requester organization.
{{ticket.current_collaborators}}- Ticket Cc’s.
{{ticket.ticket_field_ID}}- Ticket custom field. E.g, {{ticket.ticket_field_123}}.
The requester Text Placeholders
Pages where you are viewing a ticket have access to the requester placeholders.
{{requester.name}}- The name of the user who requested the ticket.
{{requester.first_name}}- The first name of the user who requested the ticket.
{{requester.email}}- The email address of the user who requested the ticket.
{{requester.organization}}- The organization of the user who requested the ticket.
{{requester.external_id}}- The external id of the user who requested the ticket.
{{requester.phone}}- The phone number of the user who requested the ticket.
The user text place holders
Pages where you are viewing a user have access to the user placeholders.
{{user.name}}- The name of the user.
{{user.first_name}}- The first name of the user.
{{user.email}}- The email address of the user.
{{user.organization}}- The organization of the user.
{{user.external_id}}- The external id of the user.
{{user.phone}}- The phone number of the user.