Managing groups


Groupsare collections of team members based on criteria those team members have in common.


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Location: Admin Center > People > Team >
Groups

Groups are collections of team members based
on criteria those team members have in common.
From the Groups page, you can view a group’s open tickets, edit your groups’ names, add
and remove team members from a group, delete groups, and change the default group for
your account.
This article covers the following topics:
Viewing a group's
tickets
Editing groups
Deleting groups




Viewing a group's tickets

You can view a group’s open tickets from the Groups page.
To view a group’s open tickets

In Admin Center, click
People in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
In the group’s row, click the Options menu ( ), then select View open tickets.
A new tab opens and lists the group's open
tickets.





Editing groups

Edit your existing groups from the Groups page.

To edit a group
In Admin Center, click
People in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
In the list of groups, find the group you want to edit and click its
name. Use the search bar to help find a group.

Make your changes. You can:
Search for and add team members to groups or remove team members
from groups (see Adding and removing team members
from a group).
Change the group name.
Note: Renaming a group has no effect on your
business rules. Your business rules (triggers, macros, and
automations) are automatically updated with the new name. See
Using groups. However,
renaming a group does impact Explore reports. If you filter a report by a
group name that is later changed, the report no longer returns
the expected results because the filter continues using the
previous group name. You must manually update report filters to
select the new group name.

Change or add a group description.
(Enterprise only) Click Make it private to make the group
private and convert all tickets assigned to the group to private.
This can't be undone. See About private ticket
groups.
Click Set as default to make this group the one that all new
agents are automatically added to.
Note: Your account’s default group
and a team member’s default group are two separate types of
defaults. To learn more about this distinction, see Changing the default group
for your account or team member.

Click the Actions menu to view all open tickets, remove all
team members from the group, or delete the group.

If an admin has turned on group level reassignment options, you can
change how a departing agent's solved tickets are reassigned. See
Setting reassignment options for
groups' solved tickets to learn more.


Click Save.





Deleting groups

You can delete groups you no longer need.
Before you delete a group, be sure to take the following actions, if necessary:

Reset the default group. If the group is set as the default group for
your account or as the default group for any team member, you need to change
the default group for the account and team members (see Changing the default group).

Reassign tickets assigned to the group. You should reassign any
tickets that are currently assigned to the group or to agents in that group
to a new group. You can do this in bulk by finding all the tickets using the
following search string:
status<closed group:"Group Name"



When you delete a group, any business rules you set up using the deleted group will
no longer function properly. If tickets are assigned to the group, the group is
removed from those tickets along with any team members in the group and the ticket
will return to unassigned. You can see these updates in the ticket events.

To delete a group
In Admin Center, click
People in the sidebar, then select Team > Groups.
In the list of groups, find the group you want to delete. You can use the
search bar to help find a group.
In the group’s row, click the Options menu ( ), then select Delete. Alternatively, you can
delete a group when you open it for editing by clicking the
Actions menu, then selecting Delete group.
A
message appears asking if you are sure you want to delete the
group.

Click Delete.




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