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This is a method for pulling Zendesk data from a view via the API into a Google Docs spreadsheet
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/* This function runs when the spreadsheet is opened and populates a menu option | |
labelled Zendesk that contains two options (7 days and 30 days) which are tied | |
to the listed functions | |
*/ | |
function onOpen() { | |
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
var entries = [{ | |
name : "Pull Satisfaction Data (last 7 days, rolling)", | |
functionName : "getSatisfactionDataLast7" | |
}, | |
{ | |
name : "Pull Satisfaction Data (last 30 days, rolling)", | |
functionName : "getSatisfactionDataLast30" | |
}]; | |
sheet.addMenu("Zendesk", entries); | |
}; | |
// This function GETs data from the Zendesk API using the parameters specified | |
function getAPIdata(apiAction, apiURL, apiAuth) { | |
// Grab our view data from the API via GET using the basic auth header from above | |
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(apiURL + apiAction, | |
{ | |
method: "get", | |
headers: {"Authorization": apiAuth} | |
}); | |
// Get our view data | |
var apiData = response.getContentText(); | |
// Convert that view data to a JSON object | |
var apiObject = Utilities.jsonParse(apiData); | |
return apiObject; | |
} | |
// This passes the ID number for a view containing tickets with bad satisfaction comments over the last 7 days to our function that grabs the satisfaction data and processes it | |
function getSatisfactionDataLast7() { | |
getSatisfactionData("31296638"); | |
} | |
// This passes the ID number for a view containing tickets with bad satisfaction comments over the last 30 days to our function that grabs the satisfaction data and processes it | |
function getSatisfactionDataLast30() { | |
getSatisfactionData("31483628"); | |
} | |
function getSatisfactionData(viewID) { | |
/* ======================================================================== | |
We need to manipulate our spreadsheets to create a new copy of the | |
spreadsheet where we'll write our data | |
======================================================================== */ | |
// Grab the active spreadsheet so we can write some data to it later | |
var satisfaction_spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
// Select the "Template" sheet and make it active | |
var template_sheet = satisfaction_spreadsheet.getSheetByName("Template"); | |
satisfaction_spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(template_sheet); | |
// Make a copy of the active sheet (which is our "Template" sheet) and make it active so we can write data to it later | |
var data_sheet = satisfaction_spreadsheet.duplicateActiveSheet(); | |
satisfaction_spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(data_sheet); | |
// Rename that sheet to the start date previously captured from the user | |
data_sheet.setName("New Data - " + Session.getActiveUser().getEmail()); | |
// Move that spreadsheet to before the "Template" sheet | |
satisfaction_spreadsheet.moveActiveSheet(template_sheet.getIndex()); | |
/* ======================================================================== | |
Now we're ready to start grabbing data from the API using the | |
function we previously created. | |
======================================================================== */ | |
// Setup basic authentication so we can get data via API. We'll pass this data to our API function | |
var unamepass = "YOUR_EMAIL@YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/token:YOUR_API_TOKEN"; | |
var digest = Utilities.base64Encode(unamepass); | |
var digestfull = "Basic "+digest; | |
var zendeskURL = "https://YOURSUBDOMAIN.zendesk.com"; | |
// Grab our data via the API | |
var viewObject = getAPIdata("/api/v2/views/" + viewID + "/execute.json", zendeskURL, digestfull); | |
// Isolate the users object so we can map assignee ID to assignee name | |
var viewUsersObject = viewObject.users; | |
// Iterate through each record in the users object and build a lookup object so we can map assignee ID to name | |
var userLookup = {}; | |
for (var j in viewUsersObject) { | |
userLookup[viewUsersObject[j].id] = viewUsersObject[j].name; | |
} | |
// Isolate the rows object | |
var viewTicketObject = viewObject.rows; | |
// Let's create an array which will contain all the data we're going to dump into the spreadsheet | |
var dataTable = new Array(); | |
// Iterate through each record in the API object and output select data to the logs | |
for (var i in viewTicketObject) { | |
// Get each of our properties for this ticket | |
var ticketID = viewTicketObject[i].ticket.id; | |
var ticketRequesterUpdate = viewTicketObject[i].requester_updated_at.replace("T", " ").replace("Z", " (UTC)"); | |
var ticketAssigneeID = viewTicketObject[i].assignee_id; | |
var ticketAssigneeName = userLookup[ticketAssigneeID]; | |
// Get the ticket data for each record via another API request | |
var realTicketObject = getAPIdata("/api/v2/tickets/" + ticketID + ".json", zendeskURL, digestfull); | |
// Grab the satisfaction comment for this ticket | |
var ticketSatisfactionComment = realTicketObject.ticket.satisfaction_rating.comment; | |
var ticketSubject = realTicketObject.ticket.subject; | |
// Construct the current row of data for this ticket as an array and then push to our parent array | |
var currentRow = [ticketRequesterUpdate, '=hyperlink("https://support.zendesk.com/tickets/' + ticketID + '", ' + ticketID + ")", ticketAssigneeName, ticketSubject, ticketSatisfactionComment]; | |
dataTable.push(currentRow); | |
} | |
/* ======================================================================== | |
With our data pulled and structured as an array, we begin pushing to | |
the spreadsheet. | |
======================================================================== */ | |
// Let's count the number of records in the table of data so we know how many rows to add | |
var number_of_records = dataTable.length; | |
// Now we append new rows to the data sheet for each record | |
Logger.log(number_of_records); | |
data_sheet.insertRowsAfter(2, number_of_records - 1); | |
// The code below will set the values for range A1:D2 to the values in an array. | |
data_sheet.getRange(2, 1, number_of_records, 5).setValues(dataTable); | |
} |
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