Using CCs and followers


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This article describes an updated CCs and followers experience. If
your account was created before May 2019, your admin might need to migrate to this updated
experience.
You can add CCs and followers to tickets. You might do this if you want
someone else to be aware of a ticket or provide some feedback on it.
Depending on your plan and how your admin has configured your account, you can also CC and
BCC users in email side conversations.
This article includes these sections:

About CCs and followers
Adding CCs from the ticket interface and
ticket notifications
Adding CCs and BCCs in email side
conversations
Adding agents as followers from the ticket
interface

Related articles:
Understanding CCs and followers
CCs and followers resources




About CCs and followers



CCs allow you to include end users and agents on ticket
notifications. Internal and external users can add CCs (copied users) to
tickets. Agents who are added as CCs will have their email addresses visible
to all end users in the thread (agents are not copied separately). CCs can
respond to ticket notifications publicly, or they can remove the requester
from the notification to submit a private response. A ticket can have up to
48 email CCs.

Followers allow you to include additional internal users (agents or
administrators) on ticket notifications. Internal users can add followers to
tickets. Followers receive updates on the ticket without exposing their
identity to end users. There's no limit to the number of followers you can
include on a ticket.

It's important to understand what happens when different users (your end users,
agents, CCs, and followers) reply from email. See the following related articles
for more information:

Understanding when email replies become
public or private comments
Best practices for using email clients
with CCs and followers
Understanding suppression of CCs email
notifications
Using the Notify by > User email |
(requesters) action in ticket triggers




Adding CCs from the ticket interface and ticket notifications

You can copy users by adding them to the ticket from a public reply in the ticket interface
or from the ticket notification. To learn more about using CCs, see About copying internal and external users on
tickets.

Note: A ticket can have up to 48 email CCs. If you have an email notification that includes a
large number of users (for example, over 25), Zendesk may create multiple emails, split into
different batches of users, to send the notification.
To CC a user from the ticket interface

From Support, open the ticket in the agent interface.
In the comment stream, click Public reply.
Click CC on the right side of the comment header.
If there are already other users copied on the
ticket, you can click on the CC line to add additional CCs.

Begin entering the name or email address of the user you want to copy. Registered users’
names will appear as suggestions.
If you see the user you want to include, click their name; otherwise, click Add
user and enter the user’s email address. When the header is expanded to show CCs,
a warning icon appears next to any
users without email addresses.

Repeat as necessary.
Enter and submit your public comment (public reply). Copied users receive a notification
and are included in subsequent replies until they are removed from the CC line.

To CC a user from ticket notifications

From your email client, open the ticket notification.
Open the CC line, per your email provider’s instructions.
Add the name of the user you want to copy. Repeat as necessary.
Add your comment and send the email. Copied users will receive an email notification,
and will be included in subsequent replies, until they are removed from the CC line.




Adding CCs and BCCs in email side conversations


Note: You must be on a Suite Professional plan or above to use side conversations. Side
conversations are not available on Support only plans. See About side conversations.
You can CC and BCC both agents and end users in an email side conversation. Side
conversation CCs and BCCs differ from CCs on a ticket in some ways. For example, you can use
trigger conditions and actions to check for and/or add CCs to a ticket but can’t for side
conversations.
To add CCs or BCCs to existing email side conversations

In a ticket, click Side Conversations in the upper-left and select an existing
email side conversation. For more information about using side conversations, see Creating side conversations

Click Write a reply.
Click CC on the right side of the comment header.
The CC recipient field and the option to BCC users
appears.

Note: Adding a user as a CC or BCC on a side conversation doesn’t add them
as a CC on the ticket.


If you want to BCC a user instead of or in addition to copying a user, click
BCC. BCC recipients aren't visible to other recipients on the email, but are
visible to anyone who can view the side conversation within Support. See About BCCs in email side
conversations.

In the corresponding field, begin entering the name or email address of the end user or
agent you want to CC or BCC. Users who already exist in your account appear as
suggestions.

If you see the user you want to add, click their name; otherwise, type the email address
of the person you want to CC or BCC. Users you add by email automatically become end users in your account if they aren't
there already.

Click Send.



About BCCs in email side conversations

Similar to traditional email, when you add a recipient in the BCC field on an email side
conversation, the BCC’d recipient can see other recipients in the To and CC fields.
However, the BCC’d recipient won’t see that they were added to the BCC field.
When a BCC’d recipient replies to an email side conversation, their reply is threaded
into the side conversation. Other recipients won’t receive the BCC’d recipient’s
email.
If a BCC’d recipient replies via “reply all”, other visible recipients (that is,
recipients in the To and CC fields) are also included in their email. By using “reply
all”, the BCC’d recipient makes a public reply to the side conversation and is included in
all subsequent replies from the side conversation. You can remove them from the recipients
list if you don’t want them included in further replies.




Adding agents as followers from the ticket interface

Internal users (your company's agents and admins) can add followers from the Followers
field from the properties panel in the ticket interface. Followers receive email
notifications when a ticket is updated. To learn more about using followers, see About adding followers to tickets.

To add agents as followers from the ticket interface
Select a ticket from one of your views. The Followers field appears in the
ticket properties panel on the left side.

In the Followers field, enter a user's name, email domain, or organization name
and the relevant results appear. Internal users such as agents, light agents, and
administrators can be followers.
To quickly add yourself as a follower, click
follow.





To remove a follower from the ticket interface
Click the delete button (X) in the person's name box in the Followers
list
To quickly remove yourself as a follower, click
unfollow.



To add agents as followers from ticket notifications

From your email client, open the ticket notification.
Open the CC line, per your email provider’s instructions.
Add the name of the user you want to add as a follower. Repeat as necessary.
Add your comment and send the email. If you're an agent who is not already a
requester or assignee on the ticket, you're also added as a follower.




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