View Sections and View Sharing

A View Section is a collapsable group that contains zero or more views.

How it works

Here's a quick introduction!

On top of the view sections, the navigation bar is also organized in 3 sections:

Chats section which includes all open chats assigned to you
Shared views section which includes all shared & public views
Private views section which includes all private views

Lead Agents and Admin agent roles (see User Permissions) will have access to all shared views regardless or not if they were added to the visibility settings. This will enable them to keep oversight of shared views created to prevent clutter.

Anyone can use the search function, regardless of their role, and access all of the tickets within the search results. This is especially important if you have view sharing setup, because searching will not prevent any agents from finding tickets in private views.

Setup instructions

View sections

Here's how to create a new view section and add views to it:

In the left sidebar, hover over one of the sections, click on the '+' icon and select 'Create section'.

In the small pop-up window, set a name for your section and choose an emoji (optional). Once you're satisfied, click 'Create'.

To add views to your section, simply drag & drop an existing view from outside the section to inside the section:

That's it, your view section is all set!

Note that default views such as Spam or Trash cannot be added to sections. If you trying adding them in a section you should see a warning sign.

Only Lead Agents and Admins can create view sections in the shared views area. Other agents can of course organize their private views are as they see fit.

Organizing view sections

Similar to views, you can simply reorganize the list of views and section by drag & dropping them. A slight blue line will appear to display the target location of where the item will be dropped.

Lead agents and admins can drag & drop shared, private views and view sections to re-order them. Changes in the order of views and view sections are visible to all.
Private views and view section cannot be dragged into the Share view area, and vice versa.
Agents can drag & drop private views and section to re-order them.

All sections can also be expanded or collapsed. Note that as opposed to the order, only the current user sees which sections are expanded or collapsed.

Note that re-ordering views & sections by drag & dropping them is sensitive to internet connection speed. If you are making changing rapidly, you might experience a slight delay. Wait a few seconds to see if the changes were captured and if not, retry.

View sections are now available on the mobile app too!

Renaming and deleting sections

Hover over the view section you would like to edit and click on the ⠇icon:

When you click on 'Rename', you will be prompted to simply update the name and emoji of the view section:

When you 'Delete' a view section that contains views, you will be notified that by doing so all the contained views will be moved back under the containing section:

You don't have to clutter your dashboard with views that you won't be using anyway. This is where our view sharing feature comes in handy.

Views have different visibility settings:

Public Views are shared with all agents.
Shared Views are shared with specific agents or teams only.
Private Views are only accessible to a single agent.

However, Lead Agents and Admins see all of the shared views (whether they have been added to the sharing list or not), so that they can always have an overview of the helpdesk.

To change the visibility settings of a view, follow the steps below:

Click on the name of the view.
On the top right of your screen, click on 'Sharing'
Switch the view to 'public' (shared with everyone), 'shared' (shared with specific teams/users) or 'private' (belongs to only one user).

Please just keep in mind that the total of public and shared views is limited to 500 per account. The total of private views is limited to 20 per agent.

Example Scenario

Let's assume your helpdesk as the following view configuration:

We are logged in as the admin as the account.
Most views are Public (from Open Tickets to My Chat).
The admin has created 3 Shared views: Teo's Chat, Gleb's Chat and Phil's Chat. These views are Shared between the individual agents and the admin.
The admin created his own Private view to keep track of tickets that they have found particularly funny or random. In this case, other admins or lead agents can actually see these views even if they are private.
There are 2 hidden views Positive Tickets and Negative Tickets that were hidden by the admin, maybe because they were duplicated.

In this example, we can highlight a couple of behaviors:

All the Public & Shared views were moved to the Shared Views area.
All the Private views were moved to the Private Views area. In this case, these 2 views are no longer visible by other admins or lead agents.
All the 2 hidden views are no longer hidden and are now visible in the Shared Views area.

To clean up the admin would want to take the following steps:

Remove the duplicate views Positive Tickets and Negative Tickets by either updating their visibility settings or deleting them.
Remove all Shared views which are no longer useful. Give lead agent rights to Teo, Gleb or Phil so they can migrate their own Chat views to the Private view area. Alternatively they can also recreate new views with the same filters.
Note that you might be tempted to move the My Tickets and My Chat views in the Private views area but actually these are already filtered to the active agent signed-in to the helpdesk. It is useful to keep those in the Shared Views as it creates a default set-up for all agents. What you might want to do is on the contrary create a new view section called "My Views" will all views filtered on the active agents as follow: