Product Q&A

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!

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! 

We are looking for ways to organize both our personal inboxes and shared inboxes. We would like to be able to see unread messages first/at the top of the inbox. We also would like for shared inboxes to have send settings. We do not want emails to archive when we reply to them.  

Is there a way we can turn off the ‘conversation view’ setting so when replies to an e-blast come in, they’re not all grouped together under one thread? 

I am trying to create a rule that will follow up an archived email, in a specific mail box, after 7 days with a reminder to respond to a quote.  The rule runs but replies to me instead of the customer…. Anyone help?  

Receiving and sending the personal information of our customers is a critical part of our work and we’ve experienced challenges with encrypting both the body of the message as well as attachments.  How is everyone else achieving this?

Howdy, I am a new Front user and didn’t see where we can add Holidays to the Business hours rules.  Can someone please guide me where to go.  Thank you. 

Hello,Simple question that from what I see can not been done. In an accounts description can a star be added? We would like to include a 5 star rating system into our accounts descriptions. Maybe this is for the idea section or someone has figured out a way to enter something other than text into an account description.Thanks,Harry

My company is finding too much overlap between how Slack and Front are used, and would like to streamline everything into Front. Has anyone else done this? If you did, what were some of the ways you customized Front to allow for more casual type conversation that wasn’t about a specific customer or project? 

I'm here to share a bit of a frustration that seems to be growing more common. It feels like every software we subscribe to these days is trying to push their own AI services or tools on us, with no option to integrate the AI provider we already prefer.This feels eerily reminiscent of the smart home industry, where manufacturers have historically tried to lock you into their ecosystem. Thankfully, we're seeing progress there with the adoption of Matter.So the question is, when will we see a similar shift in the AI space? Front already integrates seamlessly with our existing email platforms. If my team uses Google Workspace and we're paying for Gemini, it would be fantastic if we could leverage Gemini's capabilities within Front as well.Let's be honest, most of us are already invested in AI tools from major providers. It would be a huge win for both users and software companies if we had the flexibility to choose our AI provider of choice.

Is there a way that if I (admin) can close one of my team’s emails (tickets), then that email can be removed from the team member’s inbox? I’ll try to help clean up their workloads and will close unnecessary tickets - but it stays in the team member’s inbox and has to archived by the team member. Is it possible to have Front automatically archive the email from the team member’s inbox when the ticket status is changed to “closed”? 

Hi there… The spell checker seems to of disappeared - incorrectly spelt words are no longer underlined in Red.Could you let me know if this can be fixed?  Thanks!Bradley

Hello dear Front Community,We have been testing around with the Knowledge Base and noticed that it seems to not be possible to search for keywords in an article (whether on the published page or in the plugin)! The option to search exists, but it will only bring up the article itself, not location of word in question. This definitely steals time in the workflow, which we’re trying to improve!Does anyone have a solution or workaround for this? :)

Hi,  I’m trying to find a workaround to move work personal emails username@domain.com as participants when a customer is adding them in TO/CC along with our main domain support@domain.comI may have found a way to spot they are in CC and add them as participants, but I cant find a way to remove them from CC when someone hits on Reply to allUnfortunately this is a habit for some of our customers, and as the team is starting to use Front they dont always check everyone is CC resulting in Adding these agents as contacts in the conversations (which I havent found a way to remove - if there is a solution here please share)  Adding emails in different inboxes (a same conversation is in 3 or 4 different inboxes in different workspaces) Any workaround?

I am cleaning up our Front rules, and we have a rule where one of the criteria is “SLA Applies (tag) is added”. We do not have a tag by that name. Is this a function in the background where the SLA Applies tag automatically exists if SLA rules are created? I cannot find any help articles indicating this, but I did find an article referencing how to search for conversations where that tag was removed. I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the correct resource.

Hi Front Community,I hope everyone is doing well! I’m looking for guidance on how to manage our holiday hours in a way that ensures our team’s response rate metrics and SLA calculations are not negatively impacted on days when we are out of the office.Is there currently a way to configure holiday hours or exceptions so that these days are excluded from the overall metrics and individual performance tracking? If not, are there any workarounds or best practices that others have implemented?

If I put a meeting on my calendar, is there a way to search for that meeting somehow? Since there’s no invitees because it’s a meeting for myself, there is no conversation to search. 

Has anyone found a workaround for how to bump up conversations or discussions that YOU have added a comment to? For example, I have a discussion with several colleagues, but every time I add a comment, it doesn’t bump it up to the top of my conversation list as unread. When they add a comment it does. I’ve been trying to find a workaround for this. Can’t quite do it with rules. 

My team has a shared inbox but we would like to sync our calendars for keeping updated on when clients are being assisted or onboarded? I have not been able to find a way to to that. Please help.Thank you

Hello I have several questions around UI and conversation behaviour when making changes:Conversation moving from one inbox to anotherI would like to ask for any good advice or work around to avoid the conversation to disappear from the page when making a change.i.e: I move a conversation from inbox A to inbox B - current behaviour. I stop seeing the conversation, as this one is moved from the inbox Im in.I’d like the conversation to remain on the page, as sometimes I need to add a comment, a tag, or simply review some informationMoving a conversation from one inbox to another (II)When a moving a conversation both status and assignee are changed. I have tried to create a rule to prevent these changes, however, something is failing -I have created a rule for Archived conversations to be moved but assignee and status remai

Hi team, Is there anyway to create a view that combines: Open email sent TO domain@domain.com & SENT emails from domain@domain.com? This view is for a team for them to help them understand what actions have already been taken and avoid duplicated work.Thanks Alex

When we receive incoming chats, the visitors get names like ‘Purple Lemur’, ‘Taupe Boa’,’Coral Lynx’ etc.I would like to upload our own ‘aliasses’ list, so I can change these names to more friendly names, or our products names for instance. 

When we have an incoming chat in say German, we would like to translate it to English. Then compose our reply in English, translate back to German.In the email channel this translate option is available, however not in chat. is this coming? We now need to copy paste in Google Translate multiple times..

I’m a delegate for my boss’s inbox and I’ve been asked to create rules and automations for it. I already know there are certain things I can’t do as a delegate, like send emails as the person, but it doesn’t seem like I can set rules for the delegated inbox either. Does this sound correct? The best solution I’ve come up with so far is to write the rules myself and set them up while I am in my boss’s actual inbox. I just want to make sure there’s not some workaround I can do before I let my boss know. Thanks for the help!

For our enterprise customers, we want to store information that can be easily referenced in Front. Sometimes it’s structured information like the main point of contact on the account or it’s just general notes about customers like “this customer uses teams vs zoom.” Does anyone have any examples of how they’ve set this up with Front? Whether it’s pulling from a 3rd party or stored in Front?