Using the notifications list to manage conversations


This article describes how to use your notifications list to manage your social and web messaging conversations in the Zendesk Agent Workspace. To use this feature, an administrator must havesocial messaging channelsorweb messaging channelsenabled on your account.


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This article describes how to use your notifications list to manage your social and web messaging
conversations in the Zendesk Agent Workspace. To use this feature, an administrator must have
social messaging channels or web messaging channels enabled on your account.
This article includes the following sections:

About the notifications list
Opening the notifications list


Related articles
Documentation resources for the Zendesk Agent Workspace
About the Zendesk Agent Workspace




About the notifications list

As a busy agent using the Zendesk Agent Workspace, you may have to manage multiple
conversations at the same time. Because customers expect faster responses on messaging
channels vs. email, the agent workspace includes a notification list to keep you
on-track with your customers. Used in conjunction with ticket tabs, the notifications list is a valuable tool to help you
manage your messaging conversations and quickly reply to requests.
The notifications list is updated whenever a new customer message comes in to one of your
messaging tickets, but you don't have the ticket open in the workspace. The list keeps you
up-to-date on new conversation assignments, new replies from end users, and @mentions from
other agents.
The notifications list includes these features:

Notifications appear in chronological order and include time-based list
dividers
Read and unread status indicators
A toggle to show unread events only
A button to mark all notifications as read
Aggregated updates related to the same ticket

Examples of events that cause updates to the notifications list
include:


A ticket is assigned to you by another agent.​
A visitor (end user) replies to a ticket you are currently assigned.​
Another agent replies to a ticket you are currently assigned.​
Another agent @-mentions you in another ticket.​
A visitor replies to a ticket you are following (but not necessarily assigned).​
Another agent replies to a ticket you are following.​



Note: Notifications for a ticket will no longer be sent after the messaging session has ended.



Opening the notifications list

When one of your assigned messaging tickets receives a new message from an end user, you'll
see a notification at the top of the workspace and the notifications icon is updated to show
your count of unread messaging tickets. For example, if you have 10 unread messages spread
across three tickets, the count shows as 3.

To open the notifications list

Click the notifications icon ( ). A list of notifications appears.

You can quickly see
which messages are unread. Notifications in the list include an icon to show the
messaging channel, the name (or ID) of the user sending the message, the time the
message was sent, and the first line of the message.
This list also shows you
ticket assignments. For example:


Click a notification to open the ticket, view message details, and reply. Once you
click a notification and open the ticket, it's removed from the list.

To close the list, click the notifications icon ( ) again.



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