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Connecting Zendesk

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Connecting Zendesk

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Zendesk is cloud-based customer relationship management and customer support platform that provides tools for tracking, prioritizing, and solving customer support tickets. The Zendesk connector provided with Workplace Search automatically captures, syncs and indexes the following items:

Tickets

ID, ticket content, tags, status, priority, user data and timestamps

Known issues

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As a result of an undocumented breaking change in the Zendesk OAuth API, no new Zendesk content sources can be created in Workplace Search. Connections will fail with the following error message: Invalid Authorization Request.

Existing Zendesk content sources will break if they need to re-authenticate using the OAuth workflow in the future. It will be impossible to connect a Zendesk instance to Workplace Search until the issue is resolved.

A future version of Enterprise Search will be updated to address this Zendesk OAuth issue.

Configuring the Zendesk Connector

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Configuring the Zendesk connector is the first step prior to connecting the Zendesk service to Workplace Search, and requires that you create an OAuth App from the Zendesk platform. To get started, first log in to Zendesk and access your administrative dashboard:

Step 1. Locate the Zendesk Admin interface (gear icon in the sidebar). Select API under Channels:

Figure 115. Connecting Zendesk

Step 2. Make sure to agree to the Terms of Service. Navigate over to the OAuth Clients tab and click the + button on the right-hand side:

Figure 116. Connecting Zendesk

Step 3. Time to fill out some information:

Client Name: You’ll use this to identify the OAuth application.
Description: Also used for identification, use at your own discretion.
Company: Elastic makes Workplace Search. You can use that, or your own – whatever works.
Logo: Optional, will be displayed during the Connection process.
Unique Identifier: elastic_enterprise_search – this is required and must be as is.
Redirect URLs: Add the Workplace Search OAuth redirect URL for your deployment.

Step 4. Upon saving, a secret token will be generated. Keep it safe and handy, as we’ll require it in just a few moments.

Step 5. From the Workplace Search administrative dashboard’s Sources area, locate Zendesk and provide both the Client ID (elastic_enterprise_search) and the Client Secret (the secret token previously generated). Voilà! The Zendesk connector is now configured, and ready to be used to synchronize content. In order to capture data, you must now connect a Zendesk instance with the adequate authentication credentials.

Connecting Zendesk to Workplace Search

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Once the Zendesk connector has been configured, you may connect a Zendesk instance to your organization.

Step 1. Head to your organization’s Workplace Search administrative dashboard, and locate the Sources tab.

Step 2. Click Add a new source.

Step 3. Select Zendesk in the Configured Sources list, and follow the Zendesk authentication flow as presented.

Step 4. Upon the successful authentication flow, you will be redirected to Workplace Search, and your organization’s Zendesk content will now be captured and will be ready for search gradually as it is synced. Once successfully configured and connected, the Zendesk synchronization automatically occurs every 2 hours.

Synchronized fields

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The following table lists the fields synchronized from the connected source to Workplace Search. The attributes in the table apply to the default search application, as follows:

Display name - The label used when displayed in the UI
Field name - The name of the underlying field attribute
Faceted filter - whether the field is a faceted filter by default, or can be enabled (see also: Customizing filters)
Automatic query refinement preceding phrases - The default list of phrases that must precede a value of this field in a search query in order to automatically trigger query refinement. If "None," a value from this field may trigger refinement regardless of where it is found in the query string. If '', a value from this field must be the first token(s) in the query string. If N.A., automatic query refinement is not available for this field by default. All fields that have a faceted filter (default or configurable) can also be configured for automatic query refinement; see also Update a content source, Get a content source’s automatic query refinement details and Customizing filters.

Display name	Field name	Faceted filter	Automatic query refinement preceding phrases
Id	`id`	No	N.A.
URL	`url`	No	N.A.
Title	`title`	No	N.A.
Type	`type`	No	None
Body	`body`	No	N.A.
Created at	`created_at`	No	N.A.
Updated at	`updated_at`	No	N.A.
Last updated	`last_updated`	No	N.A.
Channel	`channel`	Configurable	N.A.
Status	`status`	Configurable	[`with status`, `status is`, `in state`, `''`]
Tags	`tags`	Configurable	[`with tag`, `tagged`, `tagged with`]
Priority	`priority`	Configurable	[`with priority`, `priority is`]
Ticket type	`ticket_type`	Configurable	N.A.
Assigned to	`assigned_to`	Configurable	[`assigned to`]
Created by	`created_by`	Configurable	[`creator is`, `created by`, `edited by`, `modified by`]

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