Developer Q&A

Hello! I’ve recently ben working through the FCA certification, and I’m excited by all the different aspects of Front that are available. I’m the head of the B2B division of my company, and serve as the admin for our employees who use Front, primarily our sales and customer service teams.I’m wondering if there are any users who already use the same services that I use, and if you’ve figured out any clever context links that I could implement in my system. The most common services we receive communication from are Faire, QuickBooks, Asana, Shopify, and Dialpad Voice. If anyone has developed custom fields or context links for these services, I’d love to hear about it.Thanks in advance! 

Paginating over the events API is broken:I’m using the “list events” API. My first request is to https://api2.frontapp.com/events The response contains some events + _pagination.next = https://relayapp.api.frontapp.com/events?page_token=Token_1 When I use the next page URL, I get the following response: The exact same events as in my first request (I was expecting the next batch of events) As _pagination.next, I receive the exact same URL I’ve just requested (with page_token=Token_1) This makes this API unusable, since I don’t have a way to paginate and iterate over events.Note:This happens both with and without a query. So

I’d like to use the Core API to generate draft messages. In the docs, I notice that there are examples for use in JavaScript (including fetch and XHR APIs). When I tested this code in the browser console, the request was rejected due to cross-origin headers (specifically the requesting origin was not allowed by Access-Control-Allowed-Origins). Is calling the API from the browser supported? And if so, how would I go about configuring CORS headers?Thanks!

Instead of calling Webhook URL without any authentication , can Front consume an API with Basic Authentication and send the Event payload real-time rule based ?

Do you have recommendations on how one would integrate the following:  CRM Phone System Any advice here would be greatly appreciated! 

Hi all, I would love to get some advice on this requirement,When a Front conversation is tagged with a specific tag, I want to be able to fetch some information in my CRM and depending on the results, I want to choose if the link should be added or not.My initial idea was to do as following : The specific tag is added to the conversation A rule is triggered to add a comment with a specific format A Dynamic object (former context links) rule will be triggered based on the matching text in the comments A specific information is fetched from ou CRM Depending on the results, I choose to add the link or not (or alternatively I update a conversation custom field which will trigger a new rule...)It seems to me that we can’t add any conditions logic inside the dynamic object setup, would anyone have a workaround idea ?I also tried to update a conversation custom field from a dynamic obje

Hi guys, I am trying to fetch the average reply time between the dates Oct 29, 2023 and Nov 4, 2023 via API. I am using this Analytics API Endpoint “"https://api2.frontapp.com/analytics/reports"” to fetch the data point i.e. 4 h and 56 m (can be seen in the below attached image as well). I am using below python code to fetch data: import requestsimport time url = "https://api2.frontapp.com/analytics/reports" payload = {"filters": { "inbox_ids": ["<inbox ID>"]},"start": 1698519600000 / 1000,"end": 1699124399999 / 1000,"metrics": ["avg_response_time"] # 29 Oct to 4 Nov 2023 | 18963.617021276597 Seconds | 5 hrs 16 mins

I would like to know if I can have front to authenticate a user against a front plugin. The plugin does receive an auth_secret but it is a global value and can easily be traced in the http inspector.Is there an option to have an auth_secret per user that only that user can see?How secure is the `tea_XXXX` id I can find in `context.teammate.id`. I think that these don’t seem to be not visible / guessable on the front end?Basically, how sure can I be that in the context that my plugin receives, the teammate is actually the currently logged in front teammate and that the context has not been tampered with? Thanks,Tilmann

Based on rules and also the option to, for example, return the conversation stages as a 'tag' so that they are also visible, or as a view in Front.

I'm working on an integration project. In the initial phase of this integration, I aim to create a web application with a webhook feature. This allows clients to integrate the application into their front-end. When specific events occur, the requests will be forwarded to the application configured in the webhook.I'm seeking a method to distinguish which client is sending the request. Specifically, I'm exploring the possibility of configuring multiple API keys or OAuth tokens (one for each client) that can be included in the request payload.

Currently I’m adding webhook via Rules.I wanted to handle permanent deletion of conversation as well as merging conversations.However I don’t see any trigger in rules for merging.And after adding trigger “Conversation is deleted” it seems that event is not coming.Am I doing something wrong?

Are you guys considering an integration with Playvox?  They are the Work force management partners for dialpad.  https://www.playvox.com/integrations/

My organization receives communication in multiple forms , Email / voicemail etc . I was wondering if there was any way to combine or flag communications coming from the same person even if the message itself is not exactly the same?

Can't download my FCA cert, website is buggy, the overlay on the academy site prevents downloading and sharing:   

Is it possible to build User to User chat with Front? Or is it only for customer support? 

Regularly when typing compound words like doesnt and couldnt I leave out the apostrophe.  When I’m reviewing my email before sending, it is underlined in red.  In most applications, when I right click, it offers the most likely suggestion.  In front’s case, it does not.  It suggested “couldn’t’ve” and did not suggest “couldn’t”.  Not sure what spellcheck API y’all are using or if it’s something y’all developed, but the suggestions are not ideal.  While typing this I accidentally typed “msot” instead of “most” and it did not offer “most” as a suggestion.  My suggestion is to update the spellcheck suggestions.

Hello,We are moving Front messages to our data warehouse using FiveTran, we are experiencing error while fetching the data via API. I initially contacted FiveTran, but they told me the error is coming from Front side and contact you guys.  Below is the error message. {"_error": {"message": "Plan exceeded.","status": 403,"title": "Forbidden","type": "resource_unavailable"}}

I’m trying to use the Add conversation link endpoint but after every attempt with various conversation ids I am getting from the UI, I get a 404 error:{"_error":{"status":404,"title":"Not found","message":"Invalid id"}}I’ve confirmed I’m using valid conversation ids because the Get conversation endpoint works fine with the same ids.Below is an example curl request I’m performing, generated and copied from the docs:Any ideas what could be going on?curl --request POST \ --url https://api2.frontapp.com/conversations/cnv_14lrv1os/links \ --header 'authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXXX' \ --header 'content-type: applica

Heya. Some of our customers are using the Front App to read our html emails, however we’ve received some complaints about email formatting. It looks like our paragraph <p> tags are not being treat the same as in for eg Gmail, specifically the padding/spacing between tags.Front:vs Gmail:Our raw html looks like this <p>We just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for your recent order.</p> <p>We’ve been building ___ for almost 30 years now, relying on personal recommendations and word of mouth to grow organically and slowly, rather than on flashy advertising with big budgets we don’t have.</p>

Now we are using Twilio/Front integration as our WhatsApp channel. Is there a reason to switch to direct Front/WhatsApp integration? 

We are using Authorize.net for billing.Is there a way to integrate Front with Authorize.net?

I’m successfully creating new conversations by posting `/inboxes/inb_1234/imported_messages` endpont.  it returns something like:{ conversation_reference: '...', message_uid: 'abcdefg88fbc88046053ecd6e319', status: 'accepted' } I want the conversation id from that so I can add links etc.   So I’m passing the message_uid to messages as so:curl --request GET \ --url https://api2.frontapp.com/messages/alt:uid:abcdefg88fbc88046053ecd6e319 \ --header 'accept: application/json' \ --header 'authorization: Bearer <token>but that returns: { "_error": { "status": 404, "title": "Not found" }} What am I doing wrong?

My sidebar plugin has some interactions that invoke confirmations via `window.confirm()`, e.g. deleting a line item pops up “Are you sure?” type messages.These currently don’t work when viewing app in Front’s iframe sidebar, and I believe it’s because the “allow-modals” permission is not set on the iFrame sandbox.Can this be added?

I have been dabbling with Front’s Analytics via the API. One thing I cannot seem to find is what interval is being used for the time based metrics. My assumption is that these are seconds and that each of them is in the same interval but that is not specified in any of the documentation. Could someone help clear this up for me?

Hello everyone!I am trying to execute the process of custom SMTP channels creation, using the API. I am having trouble trying to setup a custom smtp channel that is validated and is properly configured (smtp server, port,...).With api2.frontapp.com/inboxes/XXXX/channels I manage to create an smtp channel, but it’s not valid, and the SMTP settings I send in the JSON body are not set up (although they are taken by the request).With api2.frontapp.com/channels/XXXX/validate I am able to validate that newly created channel according to the response, but in Front’s UI I am still required to send the validation test email.Trying to use PATCH api2.frontapp.com/channels/XXXX is not valid, since I cannot setup the custom SMTP settings for the channel that way (only a handful of settings that I don’t need).Am I doing something wrong here, or is the process I’m trying to do not possible to execute via the API?