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Published inJan 2017
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Cedric F. Jacob
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Cedric F. Jacob, before starting his own business as a customer service consultant, writer, and Zendesk admin for international companies, began his career as a customer service representative, from where he progressed to senior, team leader, and management roles. Working for clients such as Runtastic and Lovoo, he focuses on creating highly customized, scalable structures, utilizing his acquired customer service experience and broader passion for IT, which ranges from software and game development all the way to cyber security and hardware.
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JIRA integration


Integrating JIRA is not as simple as installing an app from the Marketplace. In order to understand the whole process, you should have some experience with JIRA or (and this is how I prefer to do it) work together with someone in charge of the JIRA setup.

Integration preparations

Before we can start, we need to make sure that a few conditions are met:

  • You must have admin rights in both Zendesk and JIRA

  • The JIRA account is both in the jira-administrators and the jira-software-users group

  • The reporter field has to be present on the Create Issue screen

  • Third-party cookies are enabled in your browser

  • Atlassian add-ons need the permission to access JIRA projects

The first condition is a no-brainer. Without having the admin permissions, we simply cannot make the necessary changes for this to work. It might be noteworthy though that it is recommended that you use an actual administrative Zendesk account rather than using just any agent with admin permissions.

Why?

When escalating a JIRA...

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Cedric F. Jacob

Cedric F. Jacob, before starting his own business as a customer service consultant, writer, and Zendesk admin for international companies, began his career as a customer service representative, from where he progressed to senior, team leader, and management roles. Working for clients such as Runtastic and Lovoo, he focuses on creating highly customized, scalable structures, utilizing his acquired customer service experience and broader passion for IT, which ranges from software and game development all the way to cyber security and hardware.
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