Product Q&A

Hi! When someone sends me an email with an .ics file attached, Front shows the the event above the email message with a calendar icon. But as far as I can see, there is no way to have Front add the event to my calendar. Do I have to do it manually? 

When do “Launched” Ideas become 'Already Available?'I received an email from Front, regarding the status of an Idea that had its status changed to ‘Launched.’ (See Below)  The status ‘Launched’ does not appear in the list of “what each idea status means.”When do “Launched” ideas become available in our Front instance?  Do we have access to a calendar of upcoming releases?  it would be helpful to know in advance of new features going live, so that Administrators could become familiar with them and appropriate training be made available/created for end users.  

I am working to try and improve search functionality for my teammates. One of the continuous complaints is that some of our group reporting crowds our search results when looking for previous conversations. We tag these reports which allows us to archive them and keep our inbox clean, but if you search using the order number then all of those reports appear in the search. When trying to filter these out I do not see an inverse filter, as in filter by tags that do not equal “Reports”. Anyone had any luck with inverse filtering? 

Hi, I’m receiving a error saying “Draft Failure Mail Server rejected a command”. Can you help me please? 

***This beta group is now closed and archived.***We are looking for Scale customers with a multi-language knowledge base use case (bonus points if your Support team is interested in this feature) to test our upcoming offering. We will be running the beta for approximately two weeks in early December, and will look for your feedback during that period. To be considered for the beta, request to join the multi-language knowledge base group. The beta will be limited to 5 customers. 

IP RestrictionsThey use IP restrictions to prevent unauthorized users from accessing their emails. The office IP address is included in the allowed list.However, this option doesn't work for the mobile app because the phone's IP address isn't static. Is there a solution for this?A potential fix could be allowing access based on the MAC address.

This idea composer is quite neat. It provides the abilityto add and edit tables to use more than a fixed number of RGB colors to format a high value message.Can this be added to the Front composer?this is neat table editing in the  composer                  

It would be nice to be able to implement a rule for a ‘Subscribe to’ event.In this manner,  a user would be able to subscribe to a wider conversation than simply the immediate thread.

Presently there are three topic ‘areas’ in the plugin About Contacts ConversationsCan the Contact/Account plugin be extended to facilitate a url linking area? The area could be expandable and when selected render the detail from the link?See below.   

Hi, I’ve noticed that if I receive an email in my personal inbox, and I then move that to a team inbox, I am unable to move it back to my personal inbox. What is the reason for this?  

Is there a way to have the Time off auto-responder not mark emails as “read” when responding? And further, is there a way to have it not respond to automated emails? 

My personal email account is an O365 account, and my main calendar is added to Front. However, I would like to access a secondary calendar as well, that is created in Outlook under “My calendars”. Is there a way to add this to Front?I have read this article about getting access to a shared calendar, but this is my own personal, secondary calendar, not one that has been shared by someone else. 

Has anyone seen any information that may give a time frame when AI responses will be available for other channels/inboxes other than email?   I know you can use templated responses and chatbot responses for web chat, but would be interested to see how an AI generated response to an SMS or Instagram message for example.  

Hello,Has anyone had any success in setting up an autoresponse message to a Facebook comment that comes into connect?  To prevent back and forth on a company FB page, I have tried to set up and auto-response which Front allows be to do, however it does not auto-respond back the FB acct? Thanks.

Inbound emails are showing as delayed from minutes to hours. Customer support via email has been unresponsive.  

Challenge:  We have imported a list of TMS customers.  Unfortunately, some of those customers did not have domains.  Having a domain associated with a customer is obviously vital to utilize Tagging & Rules in Front.  We want to be able to easily Sort & Export contacts, based on the data in a given field (domain) in Front.  This functionality would be extremely helpful as we work towards Front being a ‘Single Source of Truth’ and fully useable for our use case.Question:  How do we Sort and Export contacts easily (non-API) from Front?  Note:  This is a feature found in other CMS products we’ve evaluated.  Export options should include CSV & Excel

Challenge:  We need to be able to move people in and out of groups, to support dynamic work assignments, that can change daily / by shift.Question:  Is there a way to provide a more granular level of ‘Company Administrator’ access?Related Question:  Could this be solved via the use of Custom Fields?

When I use the search function, it seems not to display results from discussions or comments within threads. Is anyone else experiencing this? Wondering if this is a issue on my end or an intentional design choice for Front?

Challenge:  When addressing an email or attempting to add an internal (Front) user, they do NOT appear in lookup results.  Adding them via their complete email address work.Question:  Is there a configuration setting, either personal, company or workgroup that would cause this behavior?  What should be done to troubleshoot this? 

We have recently started using Front for our Sales team, and we’re trying to only use discussions for internal communication. However, people tend to forget, and still send email internally. I seem to remember that there used to be a little message popping up in the composer when an internal email address was added saying something like “try @mentioning your teammate instead”. Some kind of warning here would be great, is this still available?

We’re back with another exciting AMA, this time with Front’s Head of Customer Support, @Kenji Hayward! We know many of you run your support teams on Front, so we’ve invited Kenji to answer all your questions about how we’re able to run an award-winning, yet very lean, support team fully using the power of Front. You might’ve even written in to our support team yourself and experienced the fantastic service they provide! Fun fact: I was the second hire on our support team years ago, and have worked with every person on the team since then, so I know first-hand how great they are — I will always have a special place in my heart for support 😃 But don’t just take my word for it — here are a few stats about our support team (which we also

I have tried to find this, I am sure it is easy I just can’t find it.We have a shared Team inbox, its for our emails, we actually have one for our messaging too.  Now here is the problem. Say I am in the inbox I respond to customer and archive.  Our other users still see it as open in the inboxI have looked up and down for settings I can’t figure out how to change this behavior.When we archive from the shared inbox we need it archived from there across all agents, I am sure I am missing it and it is super simple :) 

The Frontapp workspace rules action currently has Forward To as a valid selectable action. This action is intended to forward the conversation to a configured email address. However, if the source of the conversation is not of type email, the action is skipped. There is currently no hints, documentation, logs, or indication that this action is not supported or that the action only works when the source of the conversation is email. The user interface presents itself as a included feature and silently fails.  

Could we get dark mode on the calendar and settings? It’s hard on the eyes when switching off the main view.

Hello! I am getting started on creating an internal knowledge base (and an external one later). Both our staff and customers are dominantly either French or English speaking, is there a way to make the content of a knowledge base accommodate different languages without manually creating the same content in both French and English? Thank you for any help!