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Zendesk Make integrationAutomate Zendesk with Make.

Your help desk can take care of a good part of its own busywork. The Zendesk Make integration opens 55 modules, the bricks of a scenario, the automation Make runs for you. This page says what each one is for and walks you through the first one.

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What you can automate

What does the Zendesk Make integration actually do?

It links your Zendesk account to Make, the tool where you build scenarios: a chain of modules that runs on its own. One module watches the desk, the next one acts, in Zendesk or in another app. Nothing gets installed inside Zendesk, and nobody writes a line of code. The catalogue holds 55 modules, 13 of them triggers that start a scenario.

Three shapes come back all the time. The first one is the request that never waits in silence: Watch Tickets sees the ticket land, Create a Ticket Comment posts the message that tells the customer their case is open, and the agent picks it up with the ground already covered. Watch Tickets is a scheduled trigger, meaning Make goes and asks Zendesk what is new at the interval you set.

The second shape is the customer file that stays clean. Search Organizations and Search Users look up what the desk already knows, Create or Update an Organization and Create or Update a User write back what your billing tool holds, and the two sides stop drifting apart.

The third one is the help center that reports itself. Watch Articles and Watch Article Comments push new pages and reader questions into a scenario, which is enough to keep agents informed of what got published and what is still unclear. One trigger stands apart: Watch Events is instant, so Zendesk calls Make the moment an event you configured happens.

Two things are worth knowing before you start. Side conversation modules only answer if an administrator enabled that feature in your Zendesk account, and the Make documentation for Zendesk publishes no volume figure, so your own account is the measure. Whatever the 55 modules leave out goes through Make an API Call.

Zendesk also exists as an n8n node, and the same automation can be built there. The n8n vs Make comparison lays out the criteria, the Zendesk n8n integration page shows the other side, and Make training is the route if you would rather learn the editor than copy a recipe.

Connect

How do you connect Zendesk to Make?

  1. 01

    Add a Zendesk module and start the connection

    You need a Zendesk account, and that is the only prerequisite. Drop a Zendesk module into your scenario and click Create a connection. A connection is your account linked to Make once, then reused by every Zendesk module you add afterwards.

  2. 02

    Choose the connection type

    In the Connection type field, pick Zendesk. The Connection name field is optional, and filling it pays off the day you juggle several accounts: a name you recognize beats a line you have to open to identify.

  3. 03

    Enter your subdomain and save

    In the Subdomain field, type the subdomain you read in your browser address bar while you are in Zendesk, the one shaped like domain.zendesk.com. Click Save, then authenticate and confirm access if Zendesk asks for it.

First scenario

Your first scenario: a ticket that answers for itself

GoalWhen a new ticket lands in Zendesk, Make posts the first comment on it.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to place the first module. Search Zendesk by name in the list of apps, then pick Watch Tickets.

  2. 02

    Set the trigger

    Watch Tickets asks for a connection: create it as described above, or reuse the one already linked to your account. Fill the fields of the module, Make reads your desk and offers what it can see there.

  3. 03

    Add the action

    Click the + on the right of Watch Tickets and add Create a Ticket Comment. Map the data coming from the first module into the second one, so the comment lands on the ticket that just arrived and not somewhere else.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once, the button that runs the scenario a single time, then open a test ticket in Zendesk. Each module shows the bundles it received, a bundle being one item travelling from one module to the next.

  5. 05

    Schedule it and switch it on

    Set the clock on the first module. A new scenario runs every 15 minutes by default, which is also the shortest interval the Free plan allows. Switch the scenario on and it keeps working without you.

Triggers

What can start a Zendesk scenario?

13 modules start a scenario when something happens in Zendesk. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Zendesk as soon as it happens.

Zendesk1Watch Tickets

Watch Tickets

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new tickets were created.

Watch Tickets is where most Zendesk automations begin. It hands your scenario the requests created since the last run, one bundle per ticket, and everything after that is up to the modules you place behind it.

How it fires
scheduled, so Make asks Zendesk what is new each time the scenario runs, at the interval set on the clock of this module.
When to use it
a shared inbox where every request has to be logged somewhere else, in a spreadsheet or in the tool the team plans with.
Watch out
creation is all it sees, so a ticket that changes later calls for Watch Ticket Activity instead.
Zendesk2Watch Tickets in a View

Watch Tickets in a View

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new tickets were created in a view.

A view is a filtered list of tickets you already maintain in Zendesk, and this trigger reacts only to the ones that land in the view you point it at. The sorting work stays where your agents do it.

How it fires
scheduled, Make polls the view on the schedule of the scenario and picks up what appeared since the previous pass.
When to use it
a view that gathers the urgent cases, which deserve a treatment the rest of the queue does not get.
Watch out
it reports what enters the view, never what leaves it.
Zendesk3Watch Ticket Activity

Watch Ticket Activity

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether there are new audits (activity) on a ticket.

Every change written on a ticket leaves an audit entry in Zendesk, and this trigger brings those entries into the scenario as they show up. It is the one that follows a ticket through its life rather than at its birth.

How it fires
scheduled, Make checks the ticket on the rhythm of the scenario, not at the second the change is made.
When to use it
a case that must not go quiet, where any move on the ticket refreshes a board someone reads.
Watch out
activity is noisier than creation, and each entry handed over is one more bundle to process.
Zendesk4Watch Ticket's Comments

Watch Ticket's Comments

Scheduled trigger

In MakeTriggers when a new ticket's comment is created.

Comments added to a ticket, by the customer or by an agent, reach your scenario through this trigger, each one arriving as its own bundle. What you do with them is the interesting part: notify, log, answer.

How it fires
scheduled, which means Make looks for new comments when the scenario runs, not the second they are written.
When to use it
a customer who replies outside working hours, whose message should already be sorted when the desk opens.
Watch out
a scenario that writes a comment can wake itself up again, so make sure it never answers its own messages.
Zendesk5Watch Organizations

Watch Organizations

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new organizations were created.

Organizations group the people who belong to the same company in Zendesk. This trigger tells your scenario when a new one appears, with the company itself as the bundle that travels on.

How it fires
scheduled, Make queries Zendesk at the interval you choose on the first module of the scenario.
When to use it
a client company created on the desk, which has to exist in your billing tool before the first invoice goes out.
Watch out
creation is the only event here, so later changes to that company need another route.
Zendesk6Watch Groups

Watch Groups

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new groups were created.

Groups are the teams your agents belong to, and this trigger reports the ones that get created. Nothing more, which is exactly what makes it easy to reason about.

How it fires
scheduled, on the rhythm of the scenario, the clock on the first module deciding how often Make goes and asks.
When to use it
a company that opens a desk per country or per product line and wants the setup of a new team started on its own.
Watch out
teams are not created every day, so a scenario built on this trigger will sit idle for long stretches.
Zendesk7Watch Users

Watch Users

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new users were created.

Users are everyone Zendesk knows, customers and agents alike. This module passes the new ones to your scenario the next time it looks, ready for whatever welcome you have planned.

How it fires
scheduled, Make asks Zendesk for the people created since the previous run of the scenario.
When to use it
an onboarding where each new contact gets something, a message or an entry in the list your sales team works from.
Watch out
customers and agents both show up here, so the scenario should check who it is dealing with before acting.
Zendesk8Watch Articles

Watch Articles

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new articles were created.

New pages created in your help center reach the scenario through Watch Articles, one article per bundle. The editorial team keeps writing, the announcement takes care of itself.

How it fires
scheduled, Make looks for new articles at the interval the scenario is set to.
When to use it
a knowledge base that grows, where agents should hear about a page before a customer quotes it back to them.
Watch out
an article rewritten from top to bottom is not a new article, and this trigger stays quiet on it.
Zendesk9Watch Article Comments

Watch Article Comments

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new comments were added to an article.

Readers who comment under an article are usually telling you the page is not clear enough. This trigger collects those comments and drops them into your scenario, where they become something other than a line nobody reads.

How it fires
scheduled, the comments arrive at the next run of the scenario rather than the instant they are posted.
When to use it
a help center where a question left under a page has to turn into a real ticket instead of dying there.
Zendesk10Watch Forum Posts

Watch Forum Posts

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new forum posts were created.

Community posts are the public face of support, and this trigger hands each new one to your scenario as it is created. Whoever moderates the space stops having to refresh it.

How it fires
scheduled, Make checks the community on the schedule of the scenario.
When to use it
a product community where a question nobody picks up should reach the team through another channel.
Watch out
posts and articles sit in different parts of the help center and have their own triggers, so pick the one matching where your users actually write.
Zendesk11Watch Forum Post Comments

Watch Forum Post Comments

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new comments were added to a forum post.

Answers written under a community post come back here, comment by comment, ready for whatever the scenario does next. It covers the conversation, not the post that started it.

How it fires
scheduled, each run collects the comments added since the previous one.
When to use it
a community you moderate, where a reply from someone outside the team deserves a quick read before it settles in for good.
Watch out
the post and its comments are two separate triggers, so following a whole thread means using both.
Zendesk12Watch Events

Watch Events

Instant trigger

In MakeWatches specific events configured by the user through Zendesk triggers or automations.

Watch Events is the one trigger that does not wait. You decide in Zendesk, through its own triggers and automations, which events deserve to reach Make, and they arrive as they happen.

How it fires
instant, Zendesk calls Make through a webhook as soon as the event you configured occurs.
When to use it
an escalation that cannot sit until the next run of a scheduled scenario, like a case your own rules have flagged.
Watch out
an instant module needs its webhook created before the connection, and nothing arrives until the matching rule exists on the Zendesk side.
Zendesk13Watch Views

Watch Views

Scheduled trigger

In MakeChecks whether new views were created.

Views themselves can be watched: when somebody builds a new one in Zendesk, this module reports it to your scenario. On a large desk, it is the quiet way to know what admins are adding.

How it fires
scheduled, Make asks Zendesk on the schedule of the scenario and passes on the views it had not seen before.
When to use it
an account where several people create views freely and someone has to keep an inventory.
Watch out
this reports the view, not the tickets inside it. Watch Tickets in a View is the one that reads the contents.
Modules

What Zendesk can do inside a scenario

Zendesk gives you 42 modules in 10 groups. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Triggers

10 modules
Zendesk1

List Tickets

Search

In MakeRetrieves all tickets (except for archived or soft deleted tickets).

List Tickets brings the queue into the scenario, one bundle per ticket, archived and soft deleted ones left aside. Each bundle costs an operation, and an operation is one run of one module on one item.

When to use it
a report that needs the full picture of what the desk is carrying, not only the latest arrival.
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Search Tickets

Search

In MakeSearches for a ticket that matches the specified criteria. Does not list soft deleted tickets.

Search Tickets takes the criteria you give it and returns what matches, which can be zero, one or several tickets.

When to use it
checking that a customer has no open request before the scenario opens a second one for the same problem.
Watch out
soft deleted tickets stay out of these results, and an empty answer is a normal answer your scenario has to handle.
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List Soft Deleted Tickets

Search

In MakeRetrieves tickets that were soft deleted.

Soft deleted tickets vanish from the usual lists, and this module is the one that shows them again inside a scenario.

When to use it
an agent removed the wrong request and nobody can lay hands on it from the interface any more.
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Get a Ticket

Action

In MakeRetrieves a ticket.

Aim Get a Ticket at a single request and it returns that request as it stands, ready to be read by the module that follows.

When to use it
a scenario that starts somewhere else, in a form or a chat tool, and needs the ticket itself before deciding anything.
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Create a Ticket

Action

In MakeCreates a ticket.

Create a Ticket opens a request in Zendesk from whatever the scenario is carrying, a failed order, a form answer, a line in a file.

When to use it
a payment that bounces on your store and should reach the desk before the customer writes in.
Watch out
every run that reaches this module opens a ticket, so the path leading to it needs a clear reason to exist.
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Update a Ticket

Action

In MakeUpdates a ticket. The update allows for adding a new comment too.

Update a Ticket writes on a request that already exists, and the same call can add a comment while it is at it.

When to use it
a delivery whose status changes in your logistics tool and should show up in the ticket the customer keeps reading.
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Merge Tickets

Action

In MakeMerges tickets into a single ticket.

When the same person writes twice about the same thing, Merge Tickets folds the duplicates into a single request and keeps the conversation in one place.

When to use it
a customer who answers by email, then opens a second ticket through the contact form an hour later.
Watch out
a merge is not something a scenario undoes, so keep it for duplicates your rule recognizes beyond doubt.
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Soft Delete a Ticket

Action

In MakeSoft deletes a ticket.

Soft Delete a Ticket takes a request out of the working lists without wiping it, which leaves a way back through List Soft Deleted Tickets.

When to use it
spam landing on the desk and cluttering the queue your agents look at all day.
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Permanently Delete a Ticket

Action

In MakeDeletes a ticket permanently.

Permanently Delete a Ticket removes the request for good. Nothing lists it afterwards, not even the module built for soft deleted ones.

When to use it
an erasure request from a customer that your own policy says must leave no trace on the desk.
Watch out
there is no second chance, so give the scenario a strict condition before this module ever runs.
Zendesk10

Upload Attachments

Action

In MakeUploads attachments for future use in a ticket.

Upload Attachments sends files to Zendesk and keeps them waiting for the ticket that will carry them.

When to use it
a signed document produced by another app, which belongs in the customer conversation rather than in an inbox.
Watch out
the Free plan moves files up to 5 MB, and a heavier document will not travel through the scenario.

Ticket Comments

2 modules
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List Ticket's Comments

Search

In MakeRetrieves comments on a ticket.

The whole comment history of one ticket comes back through this module, each comment as its own bundle.

When to use it
an export of a closed conversation into the customer file your sales team keeps.
Watch out
a long thread returns many bundles at once, and the modules behind it will run on every single one.
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Create a Ticket Comment

Action

In MakeCreates a ticket comment.

Create a Ticket Comment posts a message on an existing ticket, which is how a scenario speaks to the customer or leaves a note for the agent.

When to use it
the acknowledgment that goes out on its own, so nobody stays without an answer while the queue is long.

Ticket Custom Fields

3 modules
Zendesk13

List Ticket Custom Field Options

Search

In MakeLists the options of a ticket custom field.

Custom fields built as drop-downs carry a list of options, and this module reads that list into your scenario.

When to use it
a form on your site that must offer exactly the same choices as the ones your agents see on the desk.
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Create or Update a Ticket Field Option

Action

In MakeCreates or updates a drop-down ticket field option.

This one adds a choice to a drop-down field, or changes it when it is already there, with nobody opening the Zendesk settings.

When to use it
a catalogue that keeps growing, where every new product line has to become an option agents can pick.
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Remove a Ticket Field Option

Action

In MakeRemoves a dropdown ticket field option.

Taking a choice off a drop-down field is the whole job of this module, and it does only that.

When to use it
a product you stopped selling that still sits in the list agents scroll through.
Watch out
the option goes away for everybody, so run it from a scenario you control rather than from a quick test.

Side Conversations

6 modules
Zendesk16

List Side Conversations

Search

In MakeRetrieves a list of side conversations on the given ticket. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

Side conversations are the side threads attached to a ticket, and this module lists the ones a given ticket holds.

When to use it
a check before closing a case, to see whether a thread opened with a supplier is still running.
Watch out
an administrator has to enable the feature in your Zendesk account first, otherwise nothing comes back.
Zendesk17

List Side Conversation Events

Search

In MakeRetrieves a list of side conversation events on the side conversation by its ID and the ticket ID. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

Each side thread keeps a record of what happened in it, and this module reads those records for one conversation on one ticket.

When to use it
an audit of how a supplier exchange went, rebuilt from what the thread lived through rather than from memory.
Zendesk18

Create a Side Conversation

Action

In MakeCreates a new side conversation by the ticket ID. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

Starting a new side thread on a ticket is this module's whole job, which lets a scenario bring a third party into a case without mixing them into the customer conversation.

When to use it
a warranty claim where the manufacturer has to be asked something before the customer gets an answer.
Watch out
with the feature switched off on the account, the module has nothing to create.
Zendesk19

Get a Side Conversation

Action

In MakeRetrieves the details of a side conversation by its ID and the ticket ID. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

Get a Side Conversation returns one thread, identified by the ticket it hangs from, with its current details.

When to use it
a scenario that picks a case back up and needs to know where the side thread stands before doing anything else.
Zendesk20

Update a Side Conversation

Action

In MakeUpdates the state or subject of the side conversation by its ID and the ticket ID. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

The state or the subject of a side thread can be changed from a scenario, and this is the module that does it.

When to use it
a thread closed once the supplier has answered, so the agent opening the ticket sees the case is complete.
Zendesk21

Reply to a Side Conversation

Action

In MakeReplies a side conversation by its ID and the ticket ID. This feature is only available if it has been enabled by the administrator.

Replying inside an existing side thread happens here, so the exchange stays in one place instead of starting over somewhere else.

When to use it
a follow up to a supplier who has gone quiet, written by the scenario rather than by an agent.
Watch out
like every side conversation module, it depends on the feature being enabled by an administrator.

Organizations

6 modules
Zendesk22

List Organizations

Search

In MakeRetrieves all organizations.

Every organization in the account comes back through List Organizations, one company per bundle.

When to use it
checking your client list against the one your accounting tool keeps.
Watch out
a long client list arrives as many bundles at once, so send them somewhere able to take the whole batch.
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Search Organizations

Search

In MakeSearches for an organization that matches the specified criteria.

Search Organizations looks for the companies matching your criteria and hands back what it finds, which may be nothing at all.

When to use it
finding out whether a company already exists before a scenario creates a twin under a slightly different name.
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Get an Organization

Action

In MakeRetrieves an organization.

One company, read in full: Get an Organization returns the record your scenario points at. It reads and never writes, so it is safe to drop anywhere in a flow.

When to use it
a ticket arriving from a client whose company details have to travel with it into your CRM.
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Create or Update an Organization

Action

In MakeCreates or updates an organization.

Create or Update an Organization writes the company into Zendesk, creating it when it is missing and refreshing it when it is already there.

When to use it
a client that sales just signed in your CRM, who now has to exist on the support desk before their very first request ever comes in.
Zendesk26

Update an Organization

Action

In MakeUpdates an organization.

Update an Organization touches companies that already exist and nothing else, which makes it the safer pick when a creation by mistake would be a problem.

When to use it
a company that moves or changes name, kept aligned from the tool where the change was recorded.
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Delete an Organization

Action

In MakeDeletes an organization.

Deleting a company from the desk is what this module does, and the scenario around it carries the responsibility.

When to use it
a client who leaves and whose record your retention rules say has to go.
Watch out
place it at the end of the flow, once every module that needed the company has already read it.

Groups

5 modules
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List Groups

Search

In MakeRetrieves all groups.

List Groups returns the teams of your Zendesk account, one group per bundle.

When to use it
building a menu of teams somewhere else, in an internal form for instance, from the list the desk actually holds.
Watch out
it returns the teams themselves, not the agents inside them. Narrowing people down to one group is the job of List Users.
Zendesk29

Get a Group

Action

In MakeRetrieves a group.

Details of a single team come back with Get a Group, when the scenario already knows which one it means. Short module, handy glue.

When to use it
an internal report that names the team handling a case instead of showing a reference nobody can read.
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Create a Group

Action

In MakeCreates a group.

Create a Group opens a new team on the desk from a scenario, without a trip through the admin screens.

When to use it
a new site or a new product line that gets its own team the day it goes live.
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Update a Group

Action

In MakeUpdates a group.

An existing team can be modified here, which is often enough to keep naming consistent on a desk that keeps growing.

When to use it
a reorganization where the teams keep working but stop being called what they used to be called.
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Delete a Group

Action

In MakeDeletes a group.

Delete a Group takes a team off the desk. Short module, long consequences for the people who were working in it.

When to use it
a temporary team, created for a launch, with no reason to stay once the launch is behind you.

Users

7 modules
Zendesk33

List Users

Search

In MakeRetrieves all users or a group's users or an organization's users.

List Users hands over the people Zendesk knows, and the list can be narrowed to one group or to one organization.

When to use it
a contact list for a single client company, built from the desk rather than typed out by hand.
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Search Users

Search

In MakeSearches for a user that matches the specified criteria.

Looking somebody up by your own criteria is the job of Search Users, which returns zero, one or several people.

When to use it
a form filled by an existing customer, where the scenario needs the person the desk already knows.
Zendesk35

Get a User

Action

In MakeRetrieves a user.

Get a User returns one person, the one your scenario points at, with what Zendesk holds about them.

When to use it
a request that has to be handled differently depending on who sent it.
Watch out
the scenario has to know which person it means, so a search module usually comes first in the flow.
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Get User Related Information

Action

In MakeRetrieves information related to a user's ticket, topics, subscriptions, etc.

This module goes past the identity card and returns what is attached to a person: their tickets, their topics, their subscriptions.

When to use it
preparing a call with a customer, with the history gathered before the agent picks up the phone.
Zendesk37

Create or Update a User

Action

In MakeCreates a user.

Create or Update a User puts a person into Zendesk, or refreshes the record when that person is already known to the desk.

When to use it
a sign up on your product that should reach support before the person ever needs help.
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Update a User

Action

In MakeUpdates a user.

Update a User changes somebody who already exists, and nothing else: no record appears by accident with this one.

When to use it
a contact who changes role at a client company, updated from the tool where that change was entered.
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Delete a User

Action

In MakeDeletes a user.

Delete a User removes a person from Zendesk. Run it knowingly, because no scenario puts the record back afterwards.

When to use it
an erasure request handled by your privacy process, with the desk as one of the systems to clear.

Items

1 module
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Search Anything

Search

In MakeRetrieves any kind of object matching your query.

Search Anything casts a wider net than the other search modules: tickets, users, organizations, whatever matches the query comes back.

When to use it
a support bot handed a reference by a customer, with no idea yet what kind of object it points to.
Watch out
a broad query returns a mixed bag, so the scenario has to sort out what it got before acting on it.

Tags

1 module
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Add, Replace or Remove Tags

Action

In MakeAdds tags or replaces existing tags of a ticket, user or organization.

A tag costs nothing and makes a record easy to find later. Add, Replace or Remove Tags puts them on a ticket, a user or an organization from inside the scenario. Adding keeps what is there, replacing swaps the whole set for what you send.

When to use it
a paying customer opens a ticket and it should carry vip before the queue picks it up.
Watch out
replace drops the tags already on the record, so pick add when you only want one more.

Other

1 module
Zendesk42

Make an API Call

Action

In MakePerforms an arbitrary authorized API call.

When none of the 55 modules covers what you need, Make an API Call sends a request you write yourself to the Zendesk API, over the connection you already created, and passes the answer to the next module.

When to use it
a part of Zendesk that has no module of its own, reached without leaving the scenario.
Watch out
you have to know which endpoint to call, so keep the named modules for everything they already cover.
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FAQ

Questions people ask next

01Is the Zendesk Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side, because Zendesk is a standard app and every plan can use it, the Free plan included. What the Free plan limits is the running: two active scenarios, 15 minutes minimum between two scheduled runs, five minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of transfer. Paid plans bring the interval down to one minute, lift the number of active scenarios and count usage in operations, one operation being one module running on one item. Your Zendesk subscription is a separate matter and has nothing to do with Make.
02What do you need to connect Zendesk to Make?
A Zendesk account and its subdomain, nothing more. The connection gets built inside the scenario: add a Zendesk module, click Create a connection, pick Zendesk in the Connection type field, give the connection a name if you want to recognize it later, then type your subdomain in the Subdomain field. That subdomain is the one you read in your browser address bar while you are in Zendesk. Click Save, then authenticate and confirm access if Zendesk asks for it. One connection then serves every Zendesk module you add, in that scenario and in the next ones.
03Does the Zendesk trigger react in real time?
It depends which one you pick. Twelve of the thirteen triggers are scheduled: Make goes and asks Zendesk what is new each time the scenario runs, and the pace is the one set on the clock of the first module, every 15 minutes by default and 15 minutes minimum on the Free plan. One trigger works the other way round. Watch Events is instant: Zendesk calls Make through a webhook as soon as an event you configured through its own triggers and automations happens. So it is scheduled for tickets, users, organizations, articles and forum posts, and instant for the events you set up yourself.
04What if a module is missing or a limit gets in the way?
Make an API Call covers what the 55 listed modules leave out. It runs on the same connection and reaches any endpoint of the Zendesk API, the door Zendesk opens for other programs, so a scenario is never stuck at the edge of the catalogue. Two other points are worth knowing. Side conversation modules only answer if an administrator enabled that feature in your Zendesk account. And a search module can come back with nothing at all, so decide what your scenario does with an empty result instead of assuming an item will always be there.
05Make or n8n for Zendesk?
It depends, and rarely on the app itself, since Zendesk exists on both sides. Look at who will keep the scenario alive once it is built, at the tool the people around you already know, and at the way each editor lays out a flow, because that is what you will be staring at the day something breaks. Make gives you the modules listed on this page and a canvas where you drop them one after another, with the first scenario reachable in an afternoon. The comparison page goes through the criteria one by one, and the Zendesk page for n8n shows the same job done with the other tool.
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