Turning on and configuring AI-generated ticket summaries

AI-generated ticket summaries help you quickly understand a ticket by recapping public comments and optional internal notes. This feature highlights key issues, customer requests, actions taken, and outcomes. You can turn summaries on or off and choose to include internal notes for more context. Summaries are stored in ticket fields, usable in reports, views, placeholders, and accessible via the API.




AI-generated ticket summaries recap the public comments that have been added to a ticket
so far, helping agents get up to speed and respond to customers more quickly. Internal
notes can optionally be included in ticket summaries as well so that critical internal
context is provided to your agents.
This article contains the following topics:

About ticket summarization
Turning ticket summaries off or on
Including internal notes in ticket summaries

Related articles:

Summarizing ticket comments using generative
AI



About ticket summarization

Ticket summaries are a concise recap of all the public comments and internal notes
that have been added to a ticket so far. Summaries may contain up to 100 words and
highlight a ticket's main problem, customer requests or expectations, actions taken,
outcomes, current status, and any explicitly stated next steps. Ticket summaries
also include critical details such as root cause, business impact, deadlines,
customer sentiment, or important internal insights related to resolution if they are
essential for clarity.
Agents can quickly get up to speed with a ticket by viewing a ticket's summary.
Summaries may also include the conversation the user had with the conversation bot
before being transferred to an agent. Side conversations aren't included in the
summary.
By default, the ticket summarization feature includes all of a ticket's public
comments. You can also include internal notes in summaries so that agents can view a
single, coherent summary of a ticket and are informed of internal details, such as
troubleshooting steps taken and messages to peers.
For messaging and chat tickets, the summarize feature works only after the transcript
has been added to the ticket, which happens when the conversation ends or becomes inactive.
You can find information about supported languages for the ticket
summarization feature in the Zendesk language support article.


About ticket summary fields

AI-generated ticket summaries are stored in ticket fields when an agent manually updates the summary by
refreshing it. The ticket summary field stores the latest summary
generated by the agent in the language in which it was created. To learn more
about ticket summary fields, see About additional ticket fields for the
Copilot add-on.
Ticket summary fields can be used in the following ways:

Reports: Include ticket summaries as an attribute in your reports and
dashboards. Ticket summary fields are available across all
Support datasets.

Views: Add ticket summaries as columns in your views.

Placeholders: Use ticket summaries as placeholders in your business rules
and macros with the syntax
{{ticket.ticket_field_<field ID>}}. For
example, {{ticket.ticket_field_93959395943}}. To use
a ticket summary as a placeholder, you need the Summary field ID,
which you can find in Admin
Center.


API: Retrieve ticket summaries via the API by accessing the Ticket Fields API and mapping
the ticket summary fields.






Turning ticket summaries off or on

The ticket summarization feature is turned on by default. You can turn ticket
summaries off or on in Admin Center.
To turn ticket summaries off or on


In Admin
Center,
click
AI in the sidebar, then select Agent copilot >
Translations.
Under Ticket context, select or deselect Summarize
conversations.

Click Save.





Including internal notes in ticket summaries

You can configure the ticket summarization feature to include internal notes in
addition to public comments.
Key ticket information is often shared in internal notes. For example,
troubleshooting details, messages to peers, escalation updates, investigation
actions, blockers, and more. Including internal notes allows ticket summarization to
provide more comprehensive summaries and reduces the risk of agents missing
important details.
To include internal notes in ticket summaries


In Admin
Center,
click
AI in the sidebar, then select Agent copilot >
Translations.
Under Ticket context, make sure Summarize conversations is turned
on.

Select Include internal notes in summary.
Click Save.