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showTicket sometimes gets ticket by id instead of public_ticket_id?

  • 18 April 2024
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R

Hello,

I’ve been getting inconsistent behavior when using showTicket. It would sometimes open a ticket by it’s public id, and sometimes it would open a wrong ticket - by id instead. I am seeing this in my network requests:
When I call showTicket(999), I see this request

https://api-iam.intercom.io/messenger/web/tickets/999

Normally (and I believe this is the expected behavior) the response contains a ticket with public_ticket_id: 999, and this ticket is opened in the chat. However, sometimes I get a ticket with id: 999, and some older public_ticket_id. So while the newer ticket is created and can be seen there in the messenger home space and in tickets if I click back, another older ticket gets opened.

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Best answer by bernice 23 April 2024, 16:19

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bernice
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Hi @random_giraffe 👋🦒 You open tickets by their ID using the Intercom('showTicket', ticketId) JavaScript function - you’ll find a ticket’s ID on the ticket, highlighted below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also retrieve Ticket IDs via the REST API with the Retrieve a Ticket endpoint 📌

Bernice | Customer Support Engineer
R

Hi, thanks for your reply. I was using the method you linked. The problem seemed to be that when the ticket was created on backend (using your createTicket API), we should have been using id field of the ticket instead of ticket_id (this is sent to frontend which then uses the id to show the ticket)

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