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Hi Folks,A question regarding your best practices - our team follows the follow-the-sun principle, meaning that we have members in most time zones and the conversation is passed from one to the other. Now, as we all know things such as SLAs or resolution times are calculated within business hours only. So do you know how Front calculates that given the principle I mentioned earlier? At the same time, I wanted to use shifts to understand who is available at the given moment. Finally, how do you handle holidays? Do you know of a way to exclude certain day from business days for given group of users? Tried using the Calendar feature, but couldn’t figure it out…Thanks!

Hi! We recently switched to Front and used to use the function in Microsoft Outlook a lot, where you can see other peoples shared calenders. Super handy of course. I couldn’t find this in Front however - is it possible to see your and your teammate’s calender next to each other to find a time slot? 

Updates to Electron v32.2.5 Fixes a crash when launching application on macOS Big Sur or older.

I have created a chatbot conversation flow using the "Branch by Visitor Data" blocks. However, the conditions "If Name exists" and "If Email exists" always evaluate as true, even when I initiate a conversation from an incognito window and no name and email are passed during the chat initialization. Additionally, in some cases, customer names are prefilled with a UUID string.This chat is running on top a Shopify store and no matter if a customer is logged in or not, the message in green is aways presented.How can I avoid that issue? 

Is it possible to take out the trash?  There seems to be no way to delete the emails in the trash bin or clean it up.Thanks,Harry

Hello everyone in the Front Community! I'm thrilled to share that I've completed the Front Certified Admin training courses and am eager to leverage Front's capabilities to enhance our customer communication, agent user experience, and detailed analytics reporting. Our company, a large entity with multiple communication platforms, aims to improve the onboarding process for our teams gradually. I'm curious to learn about the strategies you've found successful in transitioning your teams to Front. Thanks for any advice you can give!

About to order a Snapdragon powered surface laptop 7, Is the front Desktop app setup to natively run on ARM on windows? 

Hey everyone!I'm curious: What's your game-changing rule that you've implemented yourself, which genuinely adds value to your day-to-day operations? How did you come up with it, what problems does it solve, how does it support your mission, and what's the real impact of this rule?I'm asking because I believe sharing such best practices can help us all improve our workflows and achieve our goals more effectively. So, let's share experiences and learn from each other!Looking forward to hearing your insights and stories.

Hi, How can bot help in Front? Thank you,Sharifah

How (if possible at all) can I get a report for Conversations (live chat) by visitor source URL?

Dear Front Community, When I export the contact list from the “Customer satisfaction” tab on a desired period of time, the contact column displays a mix between names and email addresses. This is hard to filter and generate graphs.Do you know if there is a way to dislay ONLY email address in the contact column? Thank you very much for your help.Cheers,Ben

When an email in Front is moved to a different inbox and that new inbox replies to the original inbox it was moved from, that email does not make it to that original inbox. Instead, a copy of it comes back to the second inbox it was moved to. Other than forwarding as new conversation, is there a workaround?

Updates to Electron 32.2.3

     Hello everyone! Currently we have 1 main shared inbox, with rules that split the different emails between two teams. The main team is hourly and is consistently completing emails while in available status. Our second team is salary and takes care of specific types of emails and ones escalated by the first team. Each email that needs to be escalated (to the second team) goes to a specific “primary” person that is designated for that department’s emails. However we have noticed that when the primary person is out, it sits in their inbox, which causes a delay in response. We want to build an automation that will automatically reassign the email to a secondary person after a set amount of time. Is there a good way to do this with automations/macro buttons. Or should I set up a new inbox just for them? Will an SLA automation work when we already have one set up for the inbox? Sorry for such a long question. I appreciate the help!

Hi,Since my Front role shifted to Company Admin, I am not able to save a View in Analytics.I add a new View, and choose my filters, and click save View.Once I type in all the necessary information, the pop-up closes, and the View is not saved.If I want to go back to the Default view, it asks me if I want to save or discard changes.Log out and log in did not work.Does anybody have an idea, please?

Hi,Is there a way to save a View in Analytics and also have the date span fixed to this view?I would like to create Analytics views for quarter, monthly, weekly, and rolling 7 days, but I have not found any option to fix the date period.Thank you.

Hi Front Community! As someone who is new to using Front, I have seen that one of the primary benefits of using Front is that people have the option to link many different platforms that are used for customer service applications. As a result, is there any benefit for linking my personal inbox to Front. I do apologize if this is a stupid question, but am just looking to get some clarification on this topic. 

Hello! Just wondering if you are able to translate emails sent in another language with any feature already in Front and better yet if you are able to reply back and have it translate to whichever language the message was sent in? 

Hello, Currently we have a Microsoft form that submits a template into an email channel for our shared inboxes. For some reason any email sent into front with a CC, stops the SLA rule from starting(No timer shown). Wondering if anyone else has experienced this and/or has a solution? Thanks!

Hello.Is there a way to remove the unused, standard, fields when viewing contacts in Shared Contacts? For example, a clients X handle is not something we need to track and it pushes the Shared Contacts custom fields we do want to track lower or off scree entirely.Maybe being able to sort the order of all of the fields would work as well. Where we just move the fields we are not using to the end.Thank you!

I just finished setting up our front platform and hopefully it is set for launch date! Any advice on what’s the best CRM tool available as a plugin for us to use? 

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