Agent permission only to comment internally on ticket

  1. What is your original issue/pain point you want to solve?

We have “two-tiered” agents there some “low-level” agents are able to comment on a ticket but only internally. This is due to the fact, that the company has strict regulations/best practices for communicating with public (this is a municipality). Currently there is no way (afaik) to prevent an agent to respond to customer AND be able to discuss the ticket internally.

  1. Which are one or two concrete situations where this problem hurts the most?

This is a no-go for some customers (municipalities) which want to prevent some internal users to communicate with customers.

  1. Why is it not solvable with the Zammad standard?

No, not that I am aware of.

  1. What is your expectation/what do you want to achieve?

Adding a more granular control to group permissions would probably solve this. E.g. internal agent that is only allowed to comment with internal notes on a ticket. Group Permissions — Zammad Admin Documentation documentation

Zammad environment:

  • Average concurrent agent count: 10-100
  • Average tickets a day: expected 100+
  • What roles/people are involved: civic servants, public relations, customers (=citizens)
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This is exactly it, but from the discussion it seems like its a deeper problem that needs to be thought through. Group Permissions: Limit users to posting interally by tyler-wright · Pull Request #5058 · zammad/zammad · GitHub