Zendesk

Google Sheets + Zendesk Integration

Query from Zendesk into Google Sheets or Post data from Google Sheets into Zendesk

What is Sheet Director?

Sheet Director is a Google Workspace add-on that helps to manage and control bi-directional data flow between Google Sheets and several other applications like Google Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Sheets, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Zoho, Zendesk, etc.


It is available in the Google Workspace Marketplace. Please check the Installation instructions to install the add-on.

What is Zendesk?

Zendesk is a suite of support apps that helps transform your customer service into agents for customer retention and lead source. ... Zendesk Support puts all customer interactions in one dynamic interface for an efficient, seamless process.

Zendesk to Google Sheets: Use Case(s)

> Pull data from Zendesk objects and store it into a spreadsheet - Query

> Push data from Google Sheets into Zendesk - Post

zendesk

Sheet Director

Google Sheets

Setting up Zendesk in Sheet Director

Choose App and Service:

  • Select Zendesk from the list of applications.

  • Select service


Zendesk Configuration

  • Enter Data Center

  • Enter your Client Id

  • Enter the Client Secret

  • Click on check

  • Click on connect to Zendesk to connect to Zendesk so that you can pull data.

What is Data Center ?

  • Data Center is the subdomain that you gave during login or your company url

https://{subdomain(datacenter)}.zendesk.com/agent//

How to get Client Id and Client Secret ?

  • On side bar click on admin -> channels - > API

  • Select OAuth clients

  • Enter the Client name

  • On redirect URI enter the following url

https://script.google.com/macros/d/1smgMnG4HJmeQFgnkeaP1xdidmh-Uvs0ri1MuWrjddCjj3CMUiXCVs9Zi/usercallback

  • Click on save

  • You will get Client Secret

  • If Zendesk is connected successfully the following screen appears.

  • Select the required entity.

  • Select the fields required.

  • Click on the "+" icon to add filters.


  • Select the required Field.

  • Select the operator.

  • Select the values

  • The Fields values are displayed.

  • Select any of the fields.

  • Select the operators required.

  • Select the values required.

  • Users can add one or more filters.

  • Select the Max Results required.

Destination Settings:

  • Configure the destination settings to save the executed data.

Scheduler Settings:

  • Switch on Run automatically to execute services automatically in background.

Notification Settings:

  • Configure the Notification settings to setup the email templates and add attachments.

  • Click on execute to pull the data into sheet.

  • Click save to save the service.

Sample Output

Google Sheet to Zendesk - Post

Entity

  • Select the entity object that you need to post to

  • Select Apply Template or Setup Mapping

  • Select Apply Template to add a default template.

  • Select Setup Manually to select manually.

Source Sheet

  • Choose the sheet that contains post records.

  • Enter the Start at cell value

(the default value is A1, if you change the value you need to refresh the header by clicking on refresh icon on side)


  • Select the Status column

  • If status column is not there, simply click the +button to add the status header on your sheet(A status column will be created in Spreadsheet)

  • Select the Result column

  • If result column is not there, simply click the +button to add the result header on your sheet(A result column will be created in Spreadsheet)



Mapping

  • After selecting the entity it will ask for intelligent mapping

  • If you need to do intelligent mapping click on yes

  • Intelligent mapping will map the matching fields automatically

  • You can do manual mapping by selecting Column drop down

  • You can delete the field by click on delete icon on top of each filed map

  • You can't delete mandatory* fields

  • Click on execute will ask for confirmation

  • Click save to save the service

  • It will show number of records ready to post.

  • Click post now to post the records on Zendesk.

Sample Output

It will show the count of number of records posted successfully and failed to post.