Developer Q&A

Hey all,We thought we were utilizing all of Front’s features…. until today when we learned about dynamic objects - mind blown!  Since I am not a developer, we’re seeking any tips, tricks or help articles for how to configure a dynamic variable when the Target URL doesn’t include the “text pattern.” For example, I’d like to create a dynamic variable for our Order numbers, but our Salesforce link doesn’t actually ID the order number in the URL. Thanks for any advice!

Hi all,When a sender uses Front to compose an email in let’s say font Calibri size 14, then I receive it in Front in font Calibri size 11?What could be the reason for that and how do we fix it?Thanks in advance!

HiWe just plugged in Fivetran<> Front connector, and I'm checking out the schema.Not spotting any SLA data in the tables – kinda scratching my head here.I'm aiming to mirror that SLAs view in front analytics – , messages with SLAs, SLA breaches, % of SLA achievement, SLA breach time,Also would like to replicate those summary metrics for each conversation (interactions, messages sent, messages received, etc) but  can't seem to get convos to add up by conversation_ID using the messages table. Can u pls guide me here with these 2 points?Thanks!

So to start a new whatsapp conversation (to say, e.g., alert one of our customers about a status to their property which we service) we must send out an approved template. The front api for creating a message has no such template_id field. This should be okay, because you can `https://api2.frontapp.com/message_templates/{message_template_id}` to get the message template and then just use the body. except(1) this won’t fill in the tag fields automatically from the contact; and [more importantly](2) whatsapp rejects this message because it isn’t an approved template it seems if we use the same body it isn’t necessarily the same template. How can one use the api to send a template message to start a new whatsapp conversation?

I have created a draft using this endpoint: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/create-draftNow my draft is done and I want to send it using the api. How do I send my draft?

When I make a call to this endpoint: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/edit-draftI get the following error as a response from the frontapp api: `There is a new version of this draft`I don’t understand what is causing this error. What can I do? Just to clarify, the draft hasn’t been touched at all. In fact the update occur less than a second after the creation of the draft.

Two questions:1.-Ive completed the walk through for the Highway intergration. The issue i have is there are many different ways carriers, cusotmers, fastors, etc….use  MC. EXAMPLES: MC#123435, MC# 12345, MC12345, MC 123345, MC: 123445. Im catching very few MC’s because of this, Am i missing something?  I could create seperate objects, but that would consume a ton of time. (a copy or ability to use dyamic objects for other links, or an OR statement)  2.- Fraud detector, im getting multiple comments in conversations at times, i understood that the custom senders object was supposed to stop that part. Any help would be great.   

Has anyone (Front internal or external) explored using Microsoft Power Automate integration to connect / automate workflows with 3rd-party applications?  It looks like a Custom Connector would be possible. Build and certify custom connectors - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn 

I would like to send data to different third-party apps such as our CRM when certain actions happen in front. For example, every time a new contact has been created updated I would like to make a POST request to our CRM to keep the data in sync. I understand that I could use the front API to pull in new contacts from time to time from these third-party tools, but I would like to push instead of pool. is there a convenient way I can do this using front? 

Hello, I am implementing OAuth and I am having an error that I don’t understandHere is a record of the video showing the test  Here is the code use to send the request for getting access tokenexport const getFrontAccessToken = async (code: string, slug: string) => { const clientId = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_FRONT_CLIENT_ID; const clientSecret = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_FRONT_CLIENT_SECRET; const encodedAuth = btoa(`${clientId}:${clientSecret}`); console.log('getFrontAT ', clientId, clientSecret, encodedAuth); const response = await fetch('https://app.frontapp.com/oauth/token', { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify({ code, // redirect_uri: `http://localhost:3000/settings/${slug}/front`, grant_

Hello, I am trying to setup OAuth for my plugin but i am receiving this when sending request to https://app.frontapp.com/oauth/token{ error: 'invalid_client', error_description: 'Invalid OAuth Client' } What is the meaning of this response, please? 

Ive set this up, and was curious to get any feedback on other rules or automation to build on the rules, or any other feedback! 

I would love to know if/when NLP and LLMs will be available for dynamic object extraction. Currently the feature is pretty limited by the user providing an exact match, which isn’t great for a white glove customer experience.

We are using Fivetran Connector to Sync Front account data with datawarehouse. But in this sync We are not able to fetch the data of any of the outbound talks with customers in the Database, we only see the internal conversations. Fivetran confirmed it’s a permissions issues, how can we permit data to be fetched by fivetran from Our Front Account ?

We are having an issue with our widget loading and not getting notifications when a chat messages is sent to the user.We are using the frontchat widget and we are loading through a script and accessing it through a custom react component. When the react component loads the “front-chat-iframe” isn’t loaded with it.Here is our code in the react component. if (window.FrontChat) { window.FrontChat('onUnreadChange', unreadCount => { this.updateNotificationCount(unreadCount); }); } this.openLauncher = this.openLauncher.bind(this); We get the following error.chat.bundle.js:2 Error: [FrontChat] Have not finished setting up FrontChatApp at T (chat.bundle.js:2:47077) at x (chat.bundle.js:2:46893) at window.FrontChat (chat.bundle.js:2:46488) at new FrontLauncher (w

Hello, I am creating a plugin that will suggest to the user a content to its reply based on the previous messages exchanged by the customerAfter some tests, I noticed that, using a pluginI am obliged to open the plugin (Sidebar or Composer) to see the draft created with the content suggestionNow here is what I noticed: User click on a conversation → User open the plugin → the plugin create a draft containing the suggested contentWhat I want: User click on the conversation → The plugin create a draft containing the suggested content Is not possible to run my plugin as soon as the user click on a conversation? Opening the plugin will be to access to additional features Regards,Mael FOSSO

Is there a decent way to bypass the sidebar cache when I release hotfixes to private plugins?I made a React app and it works fine for testing with our development server (Vite), but for production I precompile it to JavaScript and serve with Nginx. This works flawlessly, but when I make changes, Front doesn’t download the new code. I tried Front in a private tab and it worked fine, so as I recall I cleared the cache on my main tab and got it working there too. With the desktop client I wasn’t so lucky. Signing out or closing wasn’t enough to fix it, and I think I tried a few things in developer tools too. I had to open the hidden menu and choose Reset App Data to get it to clear. I can’t ask end users to do that whenever I make a breaking change to the backend API.Is there a way for me to do it as the developer / company admin, short of deleting the sidebar app and making a new one? I tried adding an extra parameter to the query string and that didn’t help. We are all

Hello all, Using the “Import message” event with a shared inbox. It fails because "Body did not satisfy requirements.” Any suggestions?  

When working with certain file names, I've noticed an issue with the 'Download attachment' endpoint. Specifically, when using this endpoint, the returned file has an incorrect name. For instance, if I send a message with the file name 'filename_MM/DD/YYYY.format' and then utilize the 'Download attachment' endpoint, the retrieved file is named 'YYYY.format' instead of the expected 'filename_MM/DD/YYYY.format'. Strangely, the file name appears correctly when using the 'Get message' endpoint to retrieve the attachment within the message.I would appreciate your guidance on identifying the cause of this discrepancy and suggestions on resolving the issue associated with the 'Download attachment' endpoint. Thank you.

Hello, We currently have a Front Integration using the Core APIs.  When creating drafts, we would like to use the default channel that the user is part of as per their preferences (see below screenshot)Is there an API to get this channel for a given teammate/user? Thanks!

Issue with the Load the web page through the iframe view and not update when changing the conversation in the sidebar app.

HI Guys,How I can find client_id and client_secrets. Is there a sandbox environment to test api’s.

Ive set up dynamic objects using a 3rd party API. Is it possible to use the same server and API to build a sidebar plugin? 

Hey if anyone knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate the help! I’m trying to automate our client onboarding process to create a Front inbox for each client we have. In Zapier (that’s where all of our automation/apis/onboarding stuff is stored) I am doing an API Request (Beta) in Front trying to create the inbox. Below is a screenshot of how it’s currently set up: When I run this I get back the following:{"_error":{"status":400,"title":"Bad request","message":"Body did not satisfy requirements","details":["body.name: missing"]}}Can anyone help me get this error resolved so that it recognizes the name I’m trying to give it? Thanks so much!

Hey, We have started using discussions for chat and office announcements. Is there an option to export discussions to a file? Sometimes we need to find an information in an older announcement but the search function doesn’t work as the history is not loaded. The only option is to scroll up but it takes a lot of time. Thanks,