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The longer your help desk operations are, the more likely it is to accumulate tickets that are no longer relevant. For example, ticket records from a year ago are typically less relevant than currently open tickets. Such old tickets may eventually lead to performance issues by consuming system resources and slowing down the loading time of your Ticket Views. Archiving historical ticket data will improve the overall application performance while ensuring data retention.

What is archiving tickets? 
Archiving is the process of moving tickets that have been marked as Closed and are inactive for 120 days to separate storage, where it is retained indefinitely. For example, a ticket is in a closed-mapped status for 119 days. This ticket is archived the next day because tickets in the closed state will be archived.

How to access archived tickets?
Archived tickets are moved to the Archived Tickets view, which you can access under the Views section of the Tickets module. You do not have to worry about losing any tickets because archiving only moves tickets to this dedicated view.

How should I archive tickets?
You cannot manually archive tickets, as this is an auto-archiving feature. However, you can unarchive a ticket from the Archived Tickets view. Tickets will also be unarchived when they receive a new conversation or on changing any of their properties. For example, a ticket will be unarchived when you modify their task or move it to a different department.

You can expect this feature to begin rolling out on Friday, August 27, 2021. To know more about how archiving works with sample use cases, refer to this help guide.

Happy Ticketing!

Cheers, 
Team Zoho Desk 

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"The only workaround we could recommend is to use the API with the Archived Views ID, which would list the archived tickets"

The views API (GET /api/v1/views) does not even bring up an "Archived Views", how I am supposed to know the ID for that view?

This is really upsetting and disappointing. Everything was working perfectly until you guys decided to add a feature that no one asked for and now I can't rely on the API for my integrations.

I really hope this gets fixed soon.

  • 3 years ago

I shall touch base with you shortly via email, Rodrigo.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

This also completely ruins my workflow with zoho desk.

>> there isn't an option to disable automatic archiving

totally unacceptable. We will have to move away from zoho if this cannot be changed.

  • 3 years ago

I'd suggest writing to us elaborating your concerns at support@zohodesk.com so we can help you in the best possible way, Michael. Looking forward.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

Hi Ash

-- The views API (GET /api/v1/views) does not even bring up an "Archived Views", how I am supposed to know the ID for that view? --

Our team needs this information to asap.

  • 3 years ago

Drop us a line at support@zohodesk.com so that we can help you with the pertinent API, Elizabeth. Hope this points you in the right direction.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

  • 3 years ago

Hi Siddharth,

Are the archived tickets being reflected in ticket reports? I guess that they are still being counted for in reports alongside the "active" (open or closed) tickets or are they not being counted in such reports?

I'm having a hard time understanding what the effect of an archived ticket is (except it is not appearing in any of the actively used "views")?

  • 3 years ago

The Archived tickets functionality is implemented to enhance the performance by archiving the old tickets, Deniz. It would certainly be available in the Reports and Analytics sections of Zoho Desk.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

  • 3 years ago

We are trying to understand the logic behind this "Archiving" mechanism because our agents are not used to seeing a red ribbon with the text "Archived" on the tickets and it confuses them when they encounter it.

We still encounter old tickets which are in the "Closed" state and haven't been touched for more than 18 months. Some of them are tagged with the red colored "Archived" ribbon and some of them are tagged with the standard green colored "Closed" ribbon.

Are there some other rules which mandate this system action on the tickets?





  • 3 years ago

Ideally, the tickets inactive for 120 days would be moved to the archived view, Deniz. If there are any exceptional cases, drop us a note at support@zohodesk.com with the problematic ticket numbers so we can scrutinise the cause and help you understand the working.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

  • 2 years ago

This feature has massively complicated our Analytics, auto archived tickets are showing as Open tickets in Zoho Analytics and the desk import has no column that we can use to identify archived tickets that I can see so I am having to go into each ticket and closed it again. Please confirm how we can avoid this??

  • 2 years ago

The closed tickets shouldn't be displayed as open tickets, which isn't the expected behaviour. If there is any anomaly, drop us a line at support@zohodesk.com with the sample ticket numbers for further scrutiny.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

This feature seems to benefit Zoho and not it's customers - well done Zoho.

  • 2 years ago

This would also enhance the performance of the product for customers, Natalie. 


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

What REALLY annoys me is the standard strategy of Zoho support to answer questions with the reply "write to us a private email, then we will give you the answer". The solutions to questions are NEVER public: how does this ever build a community of Zoho users? Or does Zoho want to pretend that the product is perfect and if there is an issue, it must be the user's fault?

  • 2 years ago

We would honestly agree if there is any issue or limitation with the product, @Arose_Unity. However, in certain cases, we might have to adhere to a few workarounds that would require high efforts and might be applicable to all users. Should you have any concern regarding the Zoho Desk product, feel free to write it here. 


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

Let me be more specific, the concern I have is about the way this forum works: several users have raised the question how you can see the archived tickets through the API. I see answers here that don't make any sense or are just plainly wrong, e.g. the replies to posts from
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 The next step then is (like it always is) to write something like "Drop us a line at support@zohodesk.com so that we can help you with the pertinent API, Elizabeth. Hope this points you in the right direction." 
By doing so, no other user can learn from this feedback and then has to waste time in asking again exactly the same question to support@zohodesk.com
So in order to be helpful to the whole community, let me share what I learned in such a 'private' answer to the same question: 
Since Archived tickets won't be listed in "All Views", our support team has recommended you to use the below API.
https://desk.zoho.com/DeskAPIDocument#Tickets#Tickets_GetArchivedTicketList (sent by Raja Subramanian S | Zoho Pre-Sales Support)

  • 2 years ago

I see there is a miscommunication since the case was handled by different teams, @Arose_Unity. I shall investigate the case and get back to you shortly.


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

  • 2 years ago

Hi, everyone. 

Let me post a response and keep things transparent here. There isn't any way we can disable the Ticket Archiving functionality for any portal. In case you would like to view the Archived tickets, I'd suggest using the below API. 

/api/v1/tickets/archivedTickets?departmentId<depId>&limit=50&from=1&include=contacts,assignee,departments,team,isRead"

include - Additional information related to the tickets. Values allowed are: contactsproductsdepartmentsteamisRead and assignee. You can pass multiple values by separating them with commas in the API request.

departmentId - Long (mandatory) - ID of the department from which the tickets must be fetched

from - Integer(optional) - Index number, starting from which the tickets must be fetched


limit - Integer(optional)(1-100) - Number of tickets to fetch. "defautl value 20"

Should you have any further queries, hit us up at support@zohodesk.com


Regards,
Ash | Zoho Desk

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