--- title: "Connect Zendesk Messaging to Arcgis Online - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Conversation Message\" fires in Zendesk Messaging, your agent runs \"Add item\" in Arcgis Online." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-arcgis-online" --- # Connect Zendesk Messaging to Arcgis Online When **New Conversation Message** fires in [Zendesk Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/zendesk-messaging), your agent runs **Add item** in [Arcgis Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Zendesk Messaging **1** trigger Zendesk Messaging **3** actions Arcgis Online **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Zendesk Messaging and Arcgis Online to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Zendesk Messaging can start in Arcgis Online - When **New Conversation Message** in Zendesk Messaging then **Add item** in Arcgis Online - When **New Conversation Message** in Zendesk Messaging then **Update item** in Arcgis Online Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Zendesk Messaging and Arcgis Online ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 17 actions - Trigger **New Conversation Message** Triggers instantly on every new message in a Zendesk messaging conversation, from the customer or from your business. Check "author_type": it is "user" for the customer's messages, so an automation that replies should only act on those. - Action **Find Conversation** Finds a customer's messaging conversation from their messaging ID. - Action **Get Conversation Messages** Returns the most recent messages in a messaging conversation, from both the customer and the business. - Action **Send Message** Sends a reply into a customer's messaging conversation as your business. - Action **Add features** Adds one or more features (or table records) to an ArcGIS feature layer and returns the result for each added feature. - Action **Add folder** Creates a folder in a user's ArcGIS Online content space for organizing items. - Action **Add group** Creates a new group in your ArcGIS Online organization. You become the group's owner. - Action **Add item** Adds a new item (a URL, web map, app or JSON text content) to an ArcGIS Online user's content. - Action **Delete features** Deletes features from an ArcGIS feature layer or table, selected by object IDs, a where clause, or a spatial filter. - Action **Delete item** Deletes an item from a user's ArcGIS Online content, moving it to the recycle bin where supported or deleting it permanently. - Action **Find features** Finds features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer that match a where clause, object IDs or a spatial filter, and returns them with their attributes and geometry. - Action **Find items** Searches ArcGIS Online for content items you can access, by keyword, bounding box, filter or category, and returns the matching items. - Action **Get item** Returns the details of an ArcGIS Online item, such as its title, type, owner, tags and sharing access. - Action **Get user** Returns an ArcGIS Online user's profile, including email, role, privileges, and the groups they belong to. - Action **List folders** Returns the folders in an ArcGIS Online user's content, with each folder's id and title. - Action **Share item** Shares an item you own with the public, your organization, and/or specific groups. - Action **Update features** Updates existing features or table records in an ArcGIS feature layer, returning a success result for each feature. - Action **Update item** Updates an existing ArcGIS Online item's details, such as its title, description, tags, URL or text content. Only the values you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Zendesk Messaging** Read and reply to customer conversations from Zendesk messaging (the Web Widget, mobile SDK and social...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zendesk-messaging) - [ **Arcgis Online** Cloud GIS platform for mapping, geocoding, routing, and spatial data hosting and analysis.](https://apiant.ai/connections/arcgis-online) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Zendesk Messaging - [ **Zendesk Messaging to Base64 Encoder/Decoder** Easily convert any file type to a Base64 encoded string and vice versa using our free online converter.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-base64-encoder-decoder) - [ **Zendesk Messaging to Microsoft Learn Catalog** Catalog API for Microsoft Learn training content, listing learning paths, modules, and certification exams.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-microsoft-learn-catalog) - [ **Zendesk Messaging to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-zoom) - [ **Zendesk Messaging to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-linkedin) - [ **Zendesk Messaging to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-facebook) - [ **Zendesk Messaging to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-messaging-to-anthropic) ## More into Arcgis Online - [ **HubSpot to Arcgis Online** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-arcgis-online) - [ **Salesforce to Arcgis Online** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-arcgis-online) - [ **Slack to Arcgis Online** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Arcgis Online when something happens in Zendesk Messaging? Any of Arcgis Online's 14 actions, including Update features, Update item, Add features and Add folder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Arcgis Online to Zendesk Messaging? Arcgis Online has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Zendesk Messaging. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Arcgis Online's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Zendesk Messaging or Arcgis Online? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Zendesk Messaging and Arcgis Online without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.