Front users

Hello,I like to think that I am pretty well versed in Front. But I was trying to create a message template for an email that I have to send out weekly/biweekly/etc and noticed that it has a subject option but does not allow you the option to preselect whom it goes to?I am kind of big into saving time. 😊Sometimes I send these emails to the same group of people and thought that if that wasn’t something that exists for message templates maybe it could be added?Thanks,Brandy Ferguson, CFEAn Veritas Accounting

I created 2 inboxes managed by 2 different teams. We are merging the teams, what is the best way to consolidate the inboxes moving forward while keeping the history separate?

Hey folks,  I used the tool of shifts in Front for my team, and I wanted to share with all of you that this has been a great way to know who is working at which time and to define the worktime for the team so everyone who is available or outline can be responsible for the correct tasks. How to make this? Defining their shifts is essential because that will help us determine the correct OOO times for the team. I love it! I can see the fluency of the team's work in the analytics session.

Hey team, I have learned about Front and the great tools we as a company have to make decisions most effortlessly as a team. What tips do you have to start using Front for a company? We already used Front and the essential tools, but not everything is organized correctly. So, what are the first steps you took to make Front the best thing for your company?  Thank you! 

I’m doing a name/email address change for one of my Microsoft 365 users.  They have a user mailbox in Exchange, but a shared mailbox in Front.  Should I… One, do the name/email address change in Microsoft 365 and hope everything syncs over to Front and hope for the best? Two, should I delete the Teammate, Inbox, Channel, and Rules associated with that user and start from scratch? Or three, is there something else I should be doing? Thanks!

One of many things I use Front for is to view my team members’ calendars to see when all parties are available to meet.  I am constantly scheduling in my line of work (consulting)… so I have to look at 3-4 peoples schedules within 1-2 weeks, find openings that we have in common, take note of those openings, then provide the client will all possible options.  Is there any scheduling assistant tool or integration that can help with this? To me this would be an amazing AI feature… not sure if that already exists as well.  I would love to select team members and get a “summary” of all of our availability so I can copy/paste that in an email to a client. Or even prompt AI to get this information for me using the Front calendars.  Does anybody have answers or ideas?  

Hi everyone!I have tags saved in sidebar for quick access to the list of emails per tags. However, i noticed that archived emails with tags are not showing up on those sidebar list. Is there a way to include Archived emails (with tags) in the sidebar?when i search for the tag in the search box [TAG: XXXX] it would show all the tags despite of being in Archived. Essentially i am wondering if the sidebar tags can work the same way.  

Given that fields like IP Address and Current Hour are available when building chatbot Dynamic Variables, you can utilize these to route visitors arbitrarily to one of a couple of paths. This example shows using the last part of a user’s IP address (a number from 0-255) to route the user through path A or B;Example of A/B testing chatbot pathsIf their IP ends in 128-255 - sent them through Path A, otherwise (0-127) it’s Path B - this gives us a ~50-50 split.Why do this?You might want to test a new iteration of a path and check it’s performance with a small group of visitors (maybe limit it to 10%) before rolling out the change more widely.

How do you typically use custom fields, and what use cases have been most valuable?

Hey team, we’re absolutely loving Front so far, but are having some pretty big adoption issues on the Calendar (getting people out of Outlook) due to the lack of the ability to forward an invite that isn’t created by the user. I know if the user owns the meeting they can edit details and add a participant, but often we forward external meetings and/or internal meetings that aren’t owned by the user. Has anyone figured out how to handle this use case? Or @Support can we prioritize please :)!!

Hello.  I am looking for any suggestions on how to use system variables in Connectors.  I have a moderate amount of comfort working with APIs.  I have a Connector set up and working - POST requests are working and creating records in our third party app without issue.I cannot seem to be able to figure out how to pass system variables through our POST request.  I can create dynamic variables in the Connectors, but these do not seem able to access basic system data.  I have tried every variation I can think of - {{user.name}}, user.name, etc. but all this does is pass {{user.name}}, user.name, etc.to the created record.  I’m hopeful system variables can be passed through the Connectors and I am just missing something very obvious.  Any input is welcomed and appreciated.  Thank you!

This is a mobile app only issue.After successfully signing in with MS Outlook on iPhone, I get the following error:You can’t get there from hereYou must use Microsoft Edge to access this resource.Since I am not about to install Microsoft Edge, I’d like to know if there are any other ways to log in. F.ex. by associating a Google Account with my Front App account? Note: I have no issues logging in with the Desktop App. Update: A quick work around is to use the email / password sign in.

We need assistance on how to  send "opt-in" messages to be able to message our customers either outside the 24-hr window or to initiate a message with a new contact/customer. Pls. advise. 

Currently when someone comments on our Facebook story with an emoji/reaction it gets picked up on our system and gets tagged as a “member problem”. We want our members to be able to message us with an issue and we’ve got trigger words that activate that. We can’t just turn off all Facebook messages/reactions as we need to reply to some of them. This is where it gets tricky. We also have a rule where if the “Conversation Subject doesn’t contain: mentioned you on an; Commented on your; “ then add Member problems. We found this stops comments on Facebook posts flooding our views.   What we’re finding is when we put a post up on our story and it gets a reaction really quick. People are messaging in and it just floods the “member problems” view with these messages. We then have to manually go through and add a tag to separate the different types of messages.  Is there a way to separate a reaction/emoji from a genuine message?Is there also

Hey team, we are in the process of rolling out Front for our company. We have some employees that have been users in the past. Currently, we are trying to decide if we should leverage workspaces, various inboxes, or rules for assignment. The employees that have used Front before used the same shared inbox with other distinct teams that are on the same client account. However, they mentioned the assigning can be quite burdensome. What would you recommend here?

In addition to the CSAT, which is great, is there a way to track or infer customer sentiment in a particular email?

I save Most of my files to my Company SharePoint Site,  and when I try to attach a File the only options are  from my Computer or Google.     Wonder if there is a way to select from the Company SharePoint site. 

Hey Front Community! 👋When rolling out tags in Front, did you take a phased approach—starting with a few and refining as you went? Or did you launch with a more defined set of tags from the beginning, knowing they might evolve over time?What worked best for your team? Any lessons learned or strategies you’d recommend?Thank you!

New user to Front and was wondering if anyone felt it more beneficial to archive in Microsoft Outlook before migrating over to Front?  Or doing it inside Front once setup?  Appreciate any suggestions!

I have a team workspace set up. One of the team members has all team emails set up to be forwarded to her personal inbox. She also has her settings set up to send& archive. After she responds to the email, it archives in the team’s inbox automatically, but not her inbox. Is there a way to get the email to automatically archive in both inboxes?

Hello,  Is there any way to embed in a knowledge base article other than the limited video/inline photo? Our Ops team has hundreds of “How-to’s” created using Scribe, and it appears that I will only be able to link it in the knowledge base article, not embed it. Is that true? If so, is there any ETA on when that may be possible (I know the KB is on the “newer” side)We would prefer to stay within Front and expand our users in the company to it but may be forced to buy an outside knowledge base depending on the capabilities.  Appreciate any help! 

Curious to hear from any previous Front implementors to see when they realized full value of all that Front has to offer.  In my early workings in Front, seems like there are some immediate wins that help streamline and create efficiencies within a company which is amazing!  Did you find to be shortly after adoption period? Three months in?  Six months in?  Would love to hear some of your experiences.