Question
When I use a custom date field as a trigger condition, what doIs within the previousandIs within the nextdo?
Answer
Is within the previousandIs within the nexttake an integer number of days, which on the back end is translated into multiples of 24 hours.
For example,Custom date field | Is within the next | 3means the condition will evaluate as true when the timestamp of the custom date field is within the next 72 hours.
The timestamps for date fields are a more complicated issue since they’re not exposed anywhere in the UI or the API. In general, the hidden timestamp related to a custom dateuses 00:00 to 23:59. When a trigger uses the conditionIs within next | 1 day,the trigger would be expected to run at 00:01 onwards.
For more information about creating triggers, see the article:Trigger conditions and actions reference.
19 Comments
We wanted to move away from requiring every single ticket to be a task since it is the only way Due Dates work. Unfortunately, the custom date option doesn't work either because there is still no way to trigger to open on the day that it is due. We created a complex workaround, but now have an issue with everything being based on GMT so it is still causing issues because things are opening the night before. We are now scrapping the whole concept and going back to making every single ticket a task. We would love if we can have a custom field that either works like Due Dates or just expand on the functionality of Due Dates and stop limiting them to only Tasks. We would prefer to be able to tie individual problems to incidences and still have the tickets function the way we need. Zendesk is severely limiting it's users by not doing something that has been requested since before I started using the product. I have come across multiple discussions and found references to parts of the support site that have been cleared out. It would also help foster a sense of real community if coming across questions posted that are listed as answered had answers that were serious considerations of user needs and not just a blatant disregard of the user needs. Also, since I'm on about it, a time option would be great too. Most of our users are working only out of Zendesk and even if they do have Outlook, don't want to set up a calendar event to work a ticket.
@...That does sound frustrating, I'm sorry to hear it. I wonder if this (paid) app might be of use?
Deadline
We are trying to do the same with a "follow-up-date"
Basically a date that the agent defines when he has to re-check that specific case.
The solution with the tags only works onces per case.
如果代理放一个新的“后续的日期”will not run the automation anymore because the tag has been removed...
I was thinking to clean "The follow-up-date" but this isn't something that zendesk can handle...
Any solution by someone?
>> Maybe found a solution: I put the date on 1990-09-01 and adapted the trigger to not give a tag if that date is present
Just like Peter mentioned above, we are looking for the exact same solution....
All I want is my custom date field to activate an automation saying "Follow-up date has arrived" and send out an email.
Has anyone found a reliable way to implement this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi All,
Need a hand with the custom date setting.
We have new businesses that sign up, and I'd like for a trigger to only fire once for their very first ticket and take into account the custom date. For example, if a business signed up a week ago, but has never written to us, and this is their first time, I want to add a tag, so I can add it to a view and add an internal comment on steps / processes for agents. If the trigger has fired before - and the business writes again, we don't want to have that trigger fire again. What's the best solution around this?
Thanks
嗨！我怎么能运行一个触发器的朋友吗ite: "is NOT within the previous" or "is NOT within the next"?
Hello Mattia,
May I know what exactly are you trying to achieve with the opposite of "is NOT within the previous" or "is NOT within the next"?
You may check out some of the Trigger actions and conditions here for more guidance about it:Trigger conditions and actions reference
Clifford James Lacson|Customer Advocate
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Hi Clifford!
We have a custom date field associated to our users called that indicates when the user published a listing on our marketplace. We have a trigger that does the following:
We use the tag to group all tickets that need onboarding in a view.We need to create a trigger that removes that tag if the listing is older than 3 days.
Hello Mattia,
Apologies for the late response as I was on leave last week :(
I will be creating a ticket for this so we can continue our discussion there.
Look for an email from me shortly!
Hi, I've got another tangent altogether. I would like to utilize the date field but as per business day. I.e. If I'm setting the date value 10 days from now, it should not count the holidays in between. Any idea. Thanks
John BrunkerHi, You can set up the automation to fire 0 (zero) days to the value of date field.
ThanksRaman Kalia. I tried this also but nothing is firing when I have this setting. I wonder if there is some other attribute that would need to change from the recipe above.
Hi all,
Has anyone figured out how to achieve what's described in this thread? I have:
- Custom Date 1 -> put manually by agent
I need to set up a text notification for the particular group of people IF the date put by the agent is later than 24h from the time the date was entered. Example:
Scenario1:
- today is 08/11/22
- agent puts in a date of 15/11/22 --> text notification sent as the date is more than 24h
Scenario 2:
- today is 08/11/22
- agent puts in a date of 09/11/22 --> text notification not sent as it's within 24h
I do understand whatMattia Tostiwas referring to, it looks like you can only put number of days in "is within the next/previous", but we would need is "is NOT within the next/previous".
Thanks
Hi there,
I also have a specific use-case for this field in a Zendesk View that I'm trying to work out, and wondering if someone can help.
Our business is events, and I'd like to be able to create a View using the Date field that only shows tickets where Date = Today, so that we can prioritize getting back to people who have an event that day.
I've tried setting 'Is within the next' = 1 but that's only showing me tickets where the date is tomorrow. Using = 0 shows no results. Any ideas?
I'm also having the same issue as Kalyn.
When I use within the next 1 day, today's date is not taken into account.
How can I take today's date in triggers ?
Example :
If date is today's date then priority = urgent
Thanks for your help
I have tried to use "is within the previous = 1" and the trigger fired for the same day that was indicated on the Date custom field. More informationhere.
Hi Dane!
Unfortunately that is still not working. When I select "is within the previous=1" it still notifies me the day before instead of the day of. Any reason this might be?
This is for an automation and not a trigger.
The reason that the notifications are firing the day before when using "within the previous" criteria is due to timezones.
The automation is using UTC time and does not account for local timezones. Here in US Central time, our automation opens tickets at 6pm on the day before our custom field (which is midnight UTC). From the support agent in my recent inquiry:
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