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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
posted in Welcome
Meet the Community | Introduce Yourself!

Howdy all! My name is Javier and I lead the Developer Relations team at Front. Super excited to learn about everyone’s experience building integrations on Front, and to see how we can take the Front Platform to a better place together. In my spare time, I enjoy travel, motor racing, and cooking. We’d love for you to introduce yourselves in the comments below!Welcome to our community 

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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
published in Welcome
Welcome to the Front Developer Community

    console.log(‘Hello Front developers!!!’);We’re excited to see what integrations you will build. We hope that this community will help you get up and running with the Front Platform as quickly as possible. Use it to get the help you need, share your ideas with us, and connect with your peers.Mission StatementEnable developers to happily build successful integrations on the Front Platform. Step 1: Take a quick tour through our community Got a technical question?Make use of our awesome search function 🔎 You can find it at the top of every page. Still not finding what you need? Post a question to our Developer Q&A.Have API feedback?Let us know how we can improve our APIs.Want to know what we’ve been working on?Subscribe to our News & Updates section to get the latest news about the Front APIs and SDKs, including deprecations that may impact your integrations.Have something interesting to share or discuss?Create a new topic in our Developer Discussion space. Step 2: Customize y

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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
published in Developer discussion
Share integration ideas, tips & tricks, and API workflow wins

Want to talk about the Front APIs? This is your space!  If you have a technical question to ask, please use our Developer Q&A, but if you have ideas to bounce off other developers, or workflow wins you’ve accomplished through integrations that you’d like to share, everyone would love to hear about it.This space is ideal for sharing your best Front Platform hacks or any code you’re proud of that you’d like others to benefit from. At Front we believe there’s always something to learn, and we expect we’ll be learning quite a lot from our community of outstanding developers.  In addition, please let us know in this space about any documentation, tools, sample applications, or other resources that we could add to make your development easier on the Front Platform.Happy coding, happy sharing, and happy chatting!

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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
published in Developer Q&A
When to post in this forum versus contacting Support

This forum is the primary way to receive API assistance. Post questions about our APIs and SDKs in this forum. Posting questions in our Developer Q&A allows other developers to learn from your question and allows the broader developer community to suggest innovative solutions or respond with follow-up questions of their own. However, there are times when you should contact Front Support instead. These include:Reporting bugs or performance issues When you need changes made to your Front account When you need to share private information to troubleshoot a problem  If your issue does not fall into one of those categories, then please post in this forum. Rest assured our Support Engineers and community gurus will see your question and respond before you know it!

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twilanswer
twilanswerConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
Is there a way to link to compose an SMS?

I’m looking for a way to include a link that users can click on to compose a new Twilio SMS in Front. Ideally it would work similar to clicking the phone number on a contact record (where it opens a compose window with the To: field already pointing to the phone number.  Is this possible today? It would be great if it was possible to just have a link like app.front.com/compose?type=sms&to=1234567891 but I’m also open to using the core API to create a new conversation and then link to that conversation.  

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zqushHelper
posted in Developer discussion
Is anyone working on creating an MCP server for FrontApp?

It appears like Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the protocol that everyone is moving towards as it puts the burden of keeping everything “tidy” on the service provider rather than the client.  There are already many official MCP servers available and more on the way. There are also community developed ones. Is anyone else exploring this?Cheers!

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s5der_clothing
s5der_clothingConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
Hide chat button on init and every time on close widget

I want to have my own button placed on page, on click it opens chat widget. And when chat is closed, again set iframe to 1px height and width. I didnt find any events for this.var chatFrontLoaded = false; let chatBtnFront = document.querySelector(".spider-front-chat-btn"); chatBtnFront.addEventListener("click", function(e) { e.preventDefault(); if(!chatFrontLoaded) return; window.FrontChat("show"); }); setTimeout(()=>{ window.FrontChat("init", {chatId: "",shouldHideExpandButton:true, useDefaultLauncher: true, onInitCompleted: () => { chatFrontLoaded = true; window.FrontChat("hide"); const chatIframe = document.querySelector("#front-chat-iframe"); chatIframe.style.height = "1px"; chatIframe.style.width = "1px"; }}); if(chatFrontLoaded) { } }, 1500);It is also very sad that I need wrap it all in setTimeout, because window.FrontChat returns error. 

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guillaume
guillaumeHelper
asked in Developer Q&A
Conversation assigned to an API key

I created an API key: https://app.frontapp.com/settings/developers/tokensI use that API key to create an emailSometime that email is assigned to that API key like it’s a teammate, but sometime it doesn’t. I didn’t even knew that we could assign a conversation to an API key.I expect that email to be assigned to no one.

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kap
kapFronteer
published in API news & updates
Introducing application triggers!PLATFORM UPDATE

Application triggers allow you to execute workflows in Front in response to events that occur in external systems. For example, you might want to re-open conversations in Front anytime an order changes status. When the event occurs in your order management system, you send Front an event payload identifying the trigger for the change of order status. The event payload would also identify an application object, likely through the link to the order in your management system. Once the trigger is received, any conversations that have a related application object attached for the order would reopen based on a rule. Your rule could also pull additional properties from the trigger's event payload, such as the new status, and make that available through a dynamic variable. The additional data from the property could apply a comment or tag or other action in Front based on the new status. To learn how to use application triggers, refer to our Developer Portal:Application triggers topic Trigger

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Javier - Developer Relations
Juan
JuanHelper
asked in Developer Q&A
Unable to change draft's body from composer plugin

Hello, I'm developing a plugin for composer mode and I need to edit the current draft.As I understand from looking at the documentation, I need to make an API call with the message id of the draft in the url which is "msg_" but from the context in composer mode what I get is a draft id like "dra:***".I thought about making an API call first to list the messages of a conversation since I do get the conversation id from the context and from there extract the msg_ of the message if it has a draft. The problem I find is when there are several active drafts in a conversation since I only want to edit the draft of the user who is using the plugin.Is there any way to get the msg_ of the current draft through the context in composer mode?Thanks very much in advance.

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maxgordon
maxgordonFronteer
published in API news & updates
Open a sidebar plugin from a URLPLUGIN SDK UPDATE

You can now open a sidebar plugin from URLs found in Front messages or comments. The format for doing so is:Syntaxhttps://<Front base domain>/open-sidebar-plugin/<App UID>Examplehttps://app.frontapp.com/open-sidebar-plugin/40a4eae201a760d1 Pass custom properties to your pluginYou can pass custom properties in the URL as query string parameters, which will then become available to your plugin’s context in the EntryPoint object.https://app.frontapp.com/open-sidebar-plugin/40a4eae201a760d1?propertyA=DoubleR&propertyB=true&propertyC=777 Read more on our Developer Portal!

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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
published in API news & updates
Front will begin disabling application webhooks that do not respond successfullyIMPORTANT

Going forward, Front will disable application webhooks that do not respond successfully. After three failed attempts, the webhook will be disabled and Front will stop sending events to your URL. We expect this change will mostly impact webhooks set up during development that are no longer used. However, if an active webhook experiences downtime and is disabled, you can go to the Webhook feature of your developer app and click Update to re-verify and re-enable it.

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ragonzalez
ragonzalezConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
Custom Headers

Hello there! Is it possible to include custom headers in the message when a draft is created?We are trying to uniquely identify messages and conversations across multiple applications when a draft is created and when we receive a response.We tried embedding a hidden tag in the body, but the tag can be removed.Also, the company does not want to utilize Front Tags since those are application-specific. Thanks in advance,Raul 

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exploitation
exploitationConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
NEW BUG : Create message creates draft instead of message

We have been using this endpoint for creating & sending messages via Front for a year now :https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/{channel_id}/messagesAll our messages created via this end point yesterday were created as Draft instead of sending. We have not made any changes.Could you please investigate ? Our token access scope is Shared resources

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wesley_harding_conveyor
wesley_harding_conveyorConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
How to get API inbox ID from URL Inbox ID

We’re building an integration that makes use of Application Webhooks and would like to configure some logic based on the originating inbox. We’re running into a challenge getting inbox IDs. Notably, the UI and API use different, incompatible IDs. UI ID: 30231326 API ID: inb_123In particular, we’d like to be able to use the UI ids to configure these filters since it’s what our customers are familiar with (or they can simply drop a link that we pull the ID out of). Problem is we can’t figure out a way to match up a UI ID with the API ID.Alternative, we considered building some sort of “Inbox Picker” in our app, but want to avoid this for several reasons: Two Inbox can have the same name, so we need a means of disambiguating inboxes.  Further, the API response is pretty limited so we’re not sure how we’d even help users understand the difference. Building a UI “Picker” component is a lot more work.  In our other integrations (non-Front integrations), it’s not uncommon for customers to se

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maxgordon
maxgordonFronteer
published in API news & updates
Merged conversations now return a 301 responseCORE API UPDATE

Hello Front developers, If you retrieve a conversation through the API, the response will now return a 301 redirect if that conversation has been merged into another one. Previously, the API returned a 404. This change makes it easier to keep track of conversations after they have been merged. The change applies to any API endpoint that interacts with a specific conversation:Get conversation Update conversation Update conversation assignee List conversation events List conversation followers Add conversation followers Delete conversation followers List conversation inboxes Add conversation link Remove conversation links List conversation messages Update conversation reminders Add conversation tag Remove conversation tag List conversation drafts Create draft reply List conversation comments Add comment Create message reply 

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wesley_harding_conveyor
wesley_harding_conveyorConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
What's the recommended approach for developing Application Requests?

I’m in the process of building an integration for our application. We’re not Front customers, but our customers are Front customers.I setup a trial account, but I’m running into issues with many development workflows - key integration features are gated behind paywalls. I’ve built a bunch of integrations lately. It’s not uncommon to have premium features gated, but this is the first time I’ve run into basic integration functionality being gated for developers. Generally, companies are limiting abuse by keeping developer accounts to, say, 3 or less users. but generally allow most of the features to be available.Further, I don’t have a simple way to simply sign up for a paid account. Once the credit card comes out, the vendor review process comes out. I’d really like to avoid that.Here’s my use case:We have an AI tool that we integrate into our customer’s ticketing environments. We need inbound webhooks when tickets are created or comments are added to tickets _on specific inboxes_ While

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wesley_harding_conveyor
wesley_harding_conveyorConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
How long does the "Partnering With Front" process take?

We're in the process of building out a Front integration and trying to set expectations with customers of when it will be ready. Specifically, we want to get this in the hands of customers quickly. We’re trying to decide if we should have them setup “internal” OAuth clients while we wait for the partner review process to finish.I’m curious if you could provide a ballpark estimate of how long it will take to review and approve an app once I submit it for review?  Days, weeks, months? 

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Javier - Developer Relations
SpidersnetSupport
SpidersnetSupportRookie
asked in Developer Q&A
Email links within mail content

We have a saved Message Template for logins to our system that we send out frequently, we have noticed that when we paste in the username to the template within the body of the email it is changing the link behind it to an old customers email address. Any ideas why this might be happening or how we can stop it..  We paste in the new customer email address on the line Your Username is .. (eg email@email.co.uk) it shows the correct email address but on sending, it is changing the mailto link behind it to another email address beginning with info@. So when the end user then copies the email their side if tells them the credentials are wrong because it copies the info@ email address.Any suggestions gratefully received. 

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GlentkConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
Chat history showing string HTML

Hi TeamWe are integrating front chat to our website. So for its good but we are facing 2 problems that we are trying to fix.First one is related to showing the previous chats we have built flows and for some flows we have been seeing escaped html spans in the chat history. Please see the screenshot attached. From what I understand this happens when we usually follow multi choice question with a message and it shows span in the conversation historySecond issue we are facing is that sometimes when we look at the conversations page. It doesn’t show the last message in the conversation instead it shows first message or second last in the conversation which might confuse the users.Looking forward to hear from you,Thanks and RegardsGlen 

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Brilliantcreature
BrilliantcreatureRookie
asked in Developer Q&A
docosaurus

Hi, I wasn’t able to add this as idea, so asking here. If you are planning to add article import to knowledge base from docosaurus? Maybe there is some API that we can use to add articles from docosaurus? Thanks 

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twilanswer
twilanswerConversationalist
asked in Developer Q&A
Can I package Application Object Rules into a published application?

I’m trying to add application objects to my published application. I need users from other companies who install my application to be able to set it up with as little configuration steps as possible.  I was trying to follow the Logistics TMS Guide, and I was able to set up Application Objects, but I found that I had to create a rule to trigger the App Object whenever a new message came in.  Does that mean that my users would have to manually create the rule for the Application Object to be added to incoming messages? Is there any way to build this logic into my published application so it automatically gets set up when the app is installed? 

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Javier - Developer Relations
Javier - Developer RelationsCommunity Manager
published in API news & updates
Introducing connectors, the evolution of dynamic objectsCONNECTORS

Connectors provide a no-code means of making API calls to external systems and can also transform URLs or strings found in comments or messages into structured objects that are easy to access from a conversation in Front. Connectors come in two flavors:Application objects (previously known as “dynamic objects”)—these connectors identify matching patterns (such as order IDs) in Front conversations or comments and automatically attach a structured object to the conversation that contains information about and a link to the external resource. Application requests—these connectors make API calls to external systems to provide a no-code method for building integrations. These requests can also be leveraged in rules and macros. Currently, only GET requests are supported, but additional methods will be available soon to allow you to push data to external systems.  If you are currently using dynamic objects, they will be migrated to application objects in the coming days without any impact or

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roe_he_silk
roe_he_silkRookie
asked in Developer Q&A
I have a problem using the front-chat-sdk

I have a problem using the fron-chat-sdk

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ruturaj
ruturajFronteer
published in API news & updates
The Front Chat Android SDK is now available!FRONT CHAT

Front has just released an official Front Chat Android SDK that makes it easier than ever to install Front Chat in your native Android apps. Visit our Developer Portal to learn how to install and use the SDK. The setup guide includes a link to the SDK’s GitHub repo.

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