Managing groups and memberships

Plan requirement

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Keeping membership current. It goes stale after every team change, nothing announces it, and both ways of being wrong cost you something different.

Manage it

  1. Open the groups in Admin Center.
  2. Open a group and review its members.
  3. Add or remove people.
  4. Check each agent's default group is still right.

The two failure modes

Somebody left the team and is still a member. They keep seeing tickets they no longer work, and where access is group-based they keep the access too.

Somebody joined and was not added. They cannot see the work, and they usually assume that is how it is meant to be.

Removing somebody does not move their tickets

Open tickets assigned to them stay assigned. Reassign before removing, or those tickets sit in a group the assignee can no longer see.

Default group matters

It decides where tickets they create go. Somebody moved between teams with an old default quietly sends new work to the wrong queue.

Review it after every team change

A reorganisation, a new starter, somebody moving on. Those are the moments membership breaks, and they are exactly when nobody is thinking about Zendesk.

An empty group still receives

Routing rules keep sending tickets to a group with no members. They arrive, nobody sees them, and nothing flags it. Check that a group has people before leaving a rule pointed at it.

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