Product Q&A

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 continuously update on our website):We’ve had a 97% CSAT rating over the last 3 months, but this stat has been consistent over time, with many 💯 CSAT months (we wrote all about it here) Our email response time is 2h 9m 18s Our live chat response time is

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!

Is it useful to use multiple areas to manage 160 users divided across multiple operating units?

With dynamic objects can I link an ID that is not part of the link?

How can I move a rule from Area A to Area B?

Hello! Has anyone been using the Monday.com integration in your sidebar? Are you finding it useful? Time saver? How are your teams using this feature as it relates to Front? Some of our teams are heavy Monday.com users and some moderate users. Some of our team does not use this at all, they have no need and no access. So given all the levels our team experiences, I am trying to find the best uses for this across the board. 

For instance all emails from the same sender, or all emails tagged with the same tag. Is there a way to export all of this content from Front? Our team’s idea here is that they want to be able to use ChatGPT/AI to extract info in bulk or summarize content.Thanks!

Hello, community! You might already know that we recently launched Front Knowledge Base, a tool for you to centralize all your internal info for your team and/or external info for customers, which you can manage and access right within Front — reducing both your content and software sprawl. We use it ourselves to host our Help Center.If there’s anything you want to know about this new feature, you’ve come to the right place! We’re excited to answer your questions and get you started, with the help of Front’s two knowledge base experts:Anisha: Our internal PM for Knowledge Base who can answer anything related to its features, roadmap, workflows, and tips. Karen: Front’s own Help Center queen who runs our help center and can answer questions about migrating to Front Knowledge Base, how Front uses Knowledge Base, and general help center processes. You don’t need to direct your question to any specific person, as they’ll naturally answer the ones in their domain. Please submit as many ques

Is there any way to see non-Front users calendars in our workspace in Front? I can see them when I go to view calendars and enter their email in there but it does not auto-populate when generating meetings. Any workarounds anyone is aware of?

Is there a way to switch our users preferences to French?For scheduling meetings, the default information is in English.Thanks 

I have been able to connect to Microsoft but cannot save the credentials in Front.  I keep getting an error message.  I know the email address and password are correct as I am able to log into the account directly.I’ve reached out for help but haven’t gotten a response.Any ideas on how to fix this?

We’re very interested in leveraging the Dynamic Objects feature!  The issue I’m running into is that our strings don’t have a static component like the ones shown in all examples.To better clarify our instance, we use booking IDs that are composed of (currently) 6 digits (for example 123456). Booking IDs are assigned to bookings on an increasing basis (so the subsequent 2 bookings received would have IDs 123457 and 123458 respectively). I see also that strings cannot include spaces (so we wouldn’t be able to recognize strings from messages containing for example “I am asking about Booking 123456”). Occasionally, a customer may say “I am asking about Booking #123456”, in which case the static component of the string could be the #, however this would miss the vast majority of instances where the Dynamic Object could be applied. Are there any solutions to this?Thanks!

Hello! I Can't Share my Front Certified admin Cert on Linkedin beause the website is a bit buggy. Can anyone help here?