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Listening to outgoing emails

I am currently using the Front API to track conversations, but I am having difficulty finding a way to track outgoing emails. Could I get help getting all the details of an email that gets sent by our team?

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Increasing API rate limit

What is the process for requesting an API rate limit increase?We run a job every evening to sync external contacts to Front, but that process is hitting the Front API rate limit.I'd love to discuss ways to work around that 🙂

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Support on q parameter API usage

I'm developing an integration for one of our clients. I'm having trouble in regards with the query parameters to filter the results by date on the contacts endpoint:https://api2.frontapp.com/contactsHow I'm supposed to use the query parameter?

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Chat widget question

Hi! I would like to setup an initial message from the user/customer when they open the chat. Is it possible?

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Analytics report metrics

I’m trying to extract CSAT information on a daily basis but it seems I’m being forced to hit the API many times to get this information. First of all, I'm trying this endpoint: https://api2.frontapp.com/conversations/search/commenter%3Atea_12345%20after%3AstartDate%20before%3AendDate where startDate and endDate are variables to iterate through days. Then, for each conversation, I request the comments endpoint and filter the one that is emitted by the user front_csat. I understand that are a lot of requests at the same time, but it was the only way we found to have a dataset with this data: Conversation ID CSAT Followers Conversation DateMaybe you know another way, or you can give me an advice.

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Error running analytics/export API

I have been running into some issues while trying to get the results of analytics/exports. Whenever I try and execute the request I get 0 progress and an error message(below). Error Message: {"_error":{"status":401,"title":"Unauthenticated","message":"JSON Web Token error"}}Here is all the code if it helps:import requestsurl = "https://api2.frontapp.com/analytics/exports"payload = { "start": 0, "end": 1652970430, "type": "messages"}headers = { "Accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json", "Authorization": "Bearer MY_TOKEN_VALUE"}response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)print(response.text)

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Get analytics on messages per rep / teammate via API

We would like to extract some Front data and combine it with system data to get a more holistic view of workloads per rep. This data will ultimately be stored in our data warehouse to be combined with other datasets. What is the best way to get:Total Messages (By Rep, Timeframe, account) Number of messages to resolve

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Front conversation IDs

We are improving our integration with Front and will store a reference to Front's conversation ID. Are Front's conversation IDs unique over multiple Front accounts or are they unique on a per-account basis? In more detail, if we have 2 Front accounts, Accounts and AccountB, is it possible that both accounts have a conversation with the same ID (for example cnv_123456?

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API Create conversation with attachments

HelloI am trying to create a conversation with an attachment via API Create conversation (frontapp.com)Currently, I am receiving new messages but without attachments. My code looks like this:$headers=@{}$headers.Add("Accept", "application/json")$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")$headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer [my code]")$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_XXX/messages' -Method POST -Headers $headers -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{"to":["securitydesk@example.com"],"options":{"archive":false},"attachments":["data:text/plain;name=test.txt;base64,aBcDeF=="],"body":"test"}'

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Can link names be searchable in conversations?

Can Link Names be searchable in front, or at the very least is it possible to create a rule to insert Link names (the ones made in the add tag section) into the conversation to make it searchable. We use a ticketing system and we create a links with the ticket number to link back to that specific ticket in our system, but we have no way of searching conversations for the ticket number. There might already be a workaround here that I'm unaware of but there don't seem to be many ways to incorporate the link names in custom rules.

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How to best get message analytics into an external system

We’re looking to get the Front data into SQL so we can incorporate into our current internal productivity and profitability dashboards. We would use the email metrics (received/sent) to help improve our visibility into the reporting of productivity of reps and then the tagging of clients to identify the amount of work a client requires which helps calculate overall profitability of our relationship.Any suggestions for how to do this?

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Invalid data for multipart attachments / arrays

We are trying to attach 25 attachment to https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_123/messages and get a 400 response. When we attach less (21 of the 25 attachments) everything goes through fine.

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Assistance with creating a draft with attachments in C#

We are trying use the API to create a draft email with attachments, then a pop up for our users to modify the draft body and send the message. We are trying to integrate this into our TMS and keep having issues with posting a multipart-form in C# that would get this to function correctly. Can you please assist with an example or suggestions? We have reviewed the API guide as well as: https://gist.github.com/hdornier/e04d04921032e98271f46ff8a539a4cb, but have not been successful yet.

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Differentiating between teams and team inboxes from an Event message?

How do we tell what are the Teams and Team Inboxes related to an incoming email Event message? Or for a conversation? From the examples, I guess the inboxes part would be it and the is_private boolean would be false for Team Inboxes?

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Importing Messages into a Custom Channel with thread_refs

Hi, I'm looking to figure out how to import an outbound message created by our automation into our custom channel for viewing in Front. I currently have this api call: await axios.post( 'https://api2.frontapp.com/inboxes/inb_xxx/imported_messages', { body_format: 'markdown', body: 'test', subject: `Test Chat with ${to.first_name} (${to.type === UserType.Owner ? 'Owner' : 'Renter'})`, sender: { name: 'Test Operator', handle: 'test_operator', }, to: [ `test_user_id:${to.id}`, ], metadata: { thread_ref: `support_chat_user_id:${to.id}`, is_inbound: false, should_skip_rules: false, }, external_id: `test_message_id:1234`, created_at: Date.now() / 1000, type: 'custom', }, { headers: { Accept: 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Bearer ' + frontappApiKey, }

Front DeveloperFronteer

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SDK - openUrlInPopup

Quick question / clarification. What value are do you expect in the property "url" for "openUrlInPopup"? Could you give an example? Thank you

Front DeveloperFronteer

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Query contacts by handle

I'd like to find a more efficient way to look up a specific contact in front when I don't have the contact id or the conversation id. Ideally I could query the contacts by the phone number but I can't find a way to do that without paginating through all the contacts. Am I missing something or is this intentional?

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How to update a contact's phone number

Hope you’re good. Please can you advise how I can change a phone number via the API? I have been able to change all the other fields with the below JSON example but phone doesn’t seem to work. Example JSON body:{ "name": "Dale Cooper", "phone": 5125555555, "custom_fields" : { "ContactID": 12345, "AccountNumber": "P1234", "CustomerGrade": "CC2", "EnhancedGrade": " ", "BranchName": "Acme Services", "County": "Leicestershire", "OuterPostcode": "LE" }} Also tried this separately within the contact object: { "handles": [ { "source": "phone", "handle": "5125555555" } ]} Thanks

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List Events q parameter

Can you please provide some examples of working list events queries using the q parameter. I am particularly interested in making use of the types filter. https://api2.frontapp.com/events?q=<help> All my attempts at using that parameter have either returned an error or had no effect and I was unable to find any examples in the documentation.

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Team Member ID

Our team leverages Zapier for a number of automations. One of the fields that we utilize is the Assignee field. This requires that we input a User ID (for example, the teammate ID’s in the form of tea_XXX) to assign the conversation to a team member. While I am able to find this ID within Zapier, it can be rather cumbersome to search for each user individually.Question:Where can I find the User ID for each of my teammates (or myself) within Front?Thank you in advance

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Detecting inboxes and identifying the owner

We are writing an app that processes message body and attachments in an inbox. As you know, an inbox can have multiple channels. When a rule files on arrival of a new message in the inbox and Front sends a notification to our webhook, we want to be able to identify which inbox this message is from and whether that inbox has a subscription with us. One way that we thought we could identify inboxes was using the Inbox Id that is in the JSON payload. To use this, we’d need the user to provide the identifier (id) of the inboxes that they want to be supported to the app. I am wondering whether the Inbox ID is accessible somewhere in the Front Admin UI we cannot find the client admin users can find them and enter them into a configuration page on the app side (we could not find them in an initial look)? If this is not the best way to identify inboxes and inbox owners, based on the message payload that Front sends, do you have any alternative suggestions?

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Problems showing the Chat JS widget

Hi, We're using the JS Chat Widget API. I found an issue when using the `show` command. If the 'show' command is run too soon after the 'init' command, it has no effect. Delaying the 'show' command by using setTimeout seems to work around the problem. Is this a bug? There doesn't appear to be a way to tell if the chat is ready to be shown or not. Thanks for your help

Front DeveloperFronteer

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Forwarding email via API

Hi guys,How can I forward an email using the Front API? I don't see a method for that, although the Forward button exists in UI.Any suggestions?

Front DeveloperFronteer

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Get Channels API filtering - Locate inbox ID for a contact

Our use case is that we want to automate the process of adding a new Twilio phone number to an existing inbox. So that the agent can continue to receive sms responses from both numbers (old plus new one). Since each inbox was created manually on the Front website, we can't locate the inbox id for a specific agent. Want to know if the Front team can support filtering on the Get channels endpoint?

Front DeveloperFronteer

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Chat icon is not showing

We were showing front chat app icon on FE to communicate with our support team, everything was working fine from the past years, recently the icon is not showing anymore, We have initialised FCSP token and frontChat too. But we don't know how suddenly this stops working.Is there any expiry date in token?Or is there any change is script to integrate front chat?<script src="https://chat-assets.frontapp.com/v1/chat.bundle.js"></script><script> window.FCSP = 'xxx';</script>

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