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darrinRookie

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How can I update the external ID of a Front Account after it has been created?

I understand that the external ID can be set when creating an account, but I need to update the external ID after the account has been created. The documentation does not mention how to update an external ID. I attempted to patch the update using 'external_id', but this approach was unsuccessful. One possible workaround is to automate the process of deleting the account and recreating it with the correct external ID, although I would prefer to avoid this method.

5 hours ago

lifanConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

How to get tag id for a tag name

How can I get the tag id for a tag if I only know the tag name?Other than list all the tags with the API https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/list-tags and then search the tag name one by one, if there is any other way to do this?

15 hours ago

helpdeskdummy1

asked in Developer Q&A

Sort conversations in Search endpoint

Hi! I'm currently working on a use case within my company where we need to list conversations of a specific recipient, sorted by creation date. While the Search conversations endpoint seems promising and returns the created_at field, the conversations aren't sorted accordingly. Is there a way to sort conversations by created_at field in Search conversations endpoint? I'm unable to use the List conversations endpoint due to the need to filter conversations by recipient. Any insights or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

15 hours ago

timkralConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Body Did Not Satisfy Requirements -- Incoming Messages on Custom Channel

I’m trying to receive incoming messages over a custom channel. I created the custom channel in my Front instance and copied the channel id from the Incoming API Endpoint. In order to test, I added the necessary values on the API docs page and gave it a try:➜ ~ curl --request POST \ --url https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_g65ng/incoming_messages \ --header 'accept: application/json' \ --header 'authorization: Bearer XXXXX' \ --header 'content-type: application/json' \ --data '{ "subject": "Sample Subject", "body": "Sample Body"}'{"_error":{"status":400,"title":"Bad request","message":"Body did not satisfy requirements","details":["body.sender: missing"]}}I tried a couple of modifications hoping to back into a solution, but still the same general error:➜ ~ curl --request POST \ --url https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_g65ng/incoming_messages \ --header 'accept: application/json' \ --header 'authorization: Bearer XXXXX' \ --header 'content-

3 days ago

paulConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Add tag via link? (Kind of RSVP)

Hi there!I’m looking for a smart way how to catch-up again with customers later - if they would love to.We frequently get request from customers e.g. where they can buy our products (if out of stock).Out team replies that the given product is currently out of stock but will be available again soon.We would love to give the customer the choice:"If you would like to be notified as soon as the product is available, click this LINK."Kind of RSVP. If the customer clicks the link, Front should somehow add a dedicated TAG to the conversation (or put the customer contact to a list or anything else). Our goal is that we can easily find, follow up and inform those customers later. I can imagine of a lot of similar scenarios for this: feature requests, keep-me-posted on delays, RSVP, etc.How can this be solved best?ThanksPaul

6 days ago

MathewConversationalist

posted in Developer discussion

NetSuite

I’ll be working on NetSuite > Front.Just starting up the post, here!

7 days ago

kuldeep_41Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

I need scope in OAuth token to get private resources

‘A future update to Front's OAuth implementation will allow you to specify the permissions scopes that you need’I need scope in OAuth token to get private resourcesCan you confirm how to add scope for private in OAuth

7 days ago

sharad52Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Associate custom channel Notes logs/Phone Calls log to the contact number

Hi,I have organized my call/voicemail logs into the custom channel and it is showing as expected. i want to associate those logs in respective contacts too. is there a way to organize custom channel message to the contacts object ?

7 days ago

benh21Enthusiast

asked in Developer Q&A

Open API core-api.json does not build valid java

I’m trying to use this Open API json file to generate Java client code to call Front’s API. I’m using maven and the openapi-generator-maven-plugin version 6.2.1.The first time I tried to do this, it failed with this message:-attribute components.schemas.KnowledgeBaseArticleResponse.items is missingI fixed this by adding"items": { "type": "string"},to line 2590.Then I tried again. It failed because the Java code is not valid. There's errors in a number of files, like EventResponseSourceData. Has anyone had success generating Java client code using the above mentioned file?

7 days ago

jduffEnthusiast

asked in Developer Q&A

Sidebar plugin: add allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox to iframe sandbox

With the current sandboxing rules if you have a link that opens in a new window (which is allowed) using `target=”_blank”` the window opens but it is restricted to the same sandbox as the original iFrame. Adding `allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox` should allow that new window to break out of the sandbox. This is useful because once you are out of the sidebar iframe allowing confirm and alert pop ups no longer has the risk that they will be confused with popups from the container page. Allowing these as well as downloading etc on the new page would be useful in a number of cases. I understand that you should be able to use the SDK and the `openUrl` function that should function similarly, but depending on the application and use case updating the `target` on urls could be simpler solution. I can add this to the ideas board as well, but this seems like more of a bug or oversight since the sandbox already includes `allow-popups`.

10 days ago

wayfinder_engConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Cc recipients limit at 21 when cerating draft with Front API

When using the API to POST a new email draft, I receive the following error if the recipient list is longer than 21 addresses:{ "_error": { "status": 400, "title": "Bad request", "message": "Body did not satisfy requirements", "details": [ "body.cc: should be an array" ] }} Does anyone know why this is the case?Thank you.

12 days ago

guillaumeHelper

asked in Developer Q&A

Rule that trigger when email attachment is too heavy

I want to create rule that trigger when there is a failure to deliver an email. One of those case is when we send an email with attachment heavier than 20Mo.I created those rules, but they don’t trigger when I send an email with an attachment heavier than 20Mo. Any idea why?

12 days ago

sharad52Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Custom channel denied (couldn't authorize channel)

Hi,I have created custom channel to route my all call/voicemail/Notes logs from my application (integration application) to front.While setting up channel i got following error and couldn’t even reauthorize(not clickable)Anyone can help me here.

13 days ago

sharad52Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

PhoneCall and voicemail data logging in Front using API

hello community, I have been gone through all possible ways to create call and voicemail logging in front but couldn’t find relevant way, In conversation i couldn’t find comment object. For Other api i couldn’t log my entire data.Is there anyone who can guide me through ? i want to synchronization all the calls and voicemails log to the existing number in front.

13 days ago

josulaConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Google Sign In in Front App

We Are trying to implement a Plugin using the Google Sign Button. The problem is however that the sign does not work because Google is trying to open a new window. That of course doesn't work in the plug-in within the Front app. Hence, my question is if anyone else has built such an integration and how did they manage to integrate Google sign in within the Front app plugin?

19 days ago

sofianConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Looking for a front expert to set up our front app

Hello we’ve just started using front and we don’t have the time to figure out what we don’t know what we don’t know. Is there a partner directory or anyone who’s doing consulting paid consulting?We’re an IT business and have no issues spending cash on software implementation but Front doesn’t seem to be offering this service. Please help it’s a fantastic tool I’m sure but oh boy it takes a while to figure things out!

19 days ago

support.tai-softwareConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Updating Messages/Conversations

We’ve recently implemented an incoming message webhook. We’re able to authenticate and consume the messages with no issues. One thing we’d like our application to do is to update the message (or conversation) in Front so that it appears to have been read, archived, or deleted based on the users settings in our application. We’re currently attempting to do this using the “Update Conversation” endpoint. Here is an example.url: “"https://api2.frontapp.com/conversations/cnv_19jthp3g"body: {"assignee_id":"tea_6a2to","status":"archived"} We’ve also tried this using a body like this:{"assignee_id":"tea_6a2to","inbox_id":"inb_ak1l8","status":"archived","tag_ids":[],"custom_fields":[]} We are using PATCH and getting a response of 204 - NoContent but we are not seeing any changes to the message or conversation in Front. We’re hoping for some direction on what we may be doing wrong. Is there a better approach to updating the message directly instead of the conversation or are we missing some oth

24 days ago

sharad52Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Getting Author_id using api call.

Greetings community, After scrutinizing the each Front Apis in dev documentation, i wonder how to get front user email. As i didn’t found any relevant way to fetch this. Also ho can i get author_id using the OAuth token (access_token)?

24 days ago

mattmillerConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

How to understand created_at vs. waiting_since

Hi folks,I’m new to the Front API and am trying to understand how to use the two conversation date fields created_at and waiting_since. I recently pulled a conversation from Front in which there are four messages sent between 16:53:05 and 17:04:14 on March 28, 2022. As expected, waiting_since is equal to 1648487054, i.e., Mon Mar 28 2022 17:04:14 GMT+0000, which does correspond to the “oldest unreplied message”. But created_at has the value of 1706893362.369 – Fri Feb 02 2024 17:02:42 GMT+0000. That doesn’t make sense to me. Am I missing something? Is there a field that stores the true created_at value, or do we just need to pull the timestamp of the first message? Cheers,Matt

26 days ago

sbeitelRookie

asked in Developer Q&A

File Download from Front Plugin

Hi all!We’ve built a sidebar plugin that serves up relevant information to our users about the email that they’re viewing.One of the things we’d like to do is allow them to download documents related to the email.We have an API that we’re reaching out to that returns the file in base-64. We’ve been unable to serve the file up to the user to download as the iframe the plugin is in doesn’t allow popups or downloads.We’ve considered temporarily saving the file to blob storage and then using the openUrl function to access it but that seems like an expensive solution.Any insight would be appreciated!

26 days ago

jamesaiConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

FrontApp LiveChat integration in android - Webview not get hide as per guide

Hello Front Support. Can anybody answer my Questionhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/78108047/frontapp-livechat-integration-in-android-webview-not-get-hide-as-per-guide

1 month ago

hector_rojoConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

peteRookie

asked in Developer Q&A

Reduce the amount of spurious warnings from Front Chat

I installed Front Chat on my website today, which is great so far, except that it’s exceptionally noisy in the developer console. It announces itself, it announces it’s using something called bugsnap, it spews out a load of SameSite and Partitioned cookie warnings, a few debugging messages from Ably, tells me about “frontChatChannelToken”.All of this makes real warnings a lot harder to see. What’s going on here? Can I switch off the non-cookie debug messages at all? Is there a “I’m in Production, WTF” flag I can switch on?

1 month ago

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