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Hi,I’m currently trying to build a set of templates for my team to use. One of the templates asks for a response by a date 3 days in the future. I’m currently struggling to find a way for that date to auto populate when the template is loaded up. Is this something that is possible, either through Front itself, or by pulling from another source, such as Excel.Many thanks

Hi, Do you know how I can export my message templates in a .csv file ? Or any other way to export our templates ?Thanks for your help !

Hello everyone,We are using Front in a B2B context with multiple clients who operate in the same B2C market. As a result, some of their end customers are shared and have the same phone numbers and/or email addresses.Our issue is that when importing contacts, these shared customers are automatically merged by Front, even though they belong to different accounts and are technically distinct customers. Has anyone encountered a similar situation, and how did you manage this to avoid unwanted contact merges?Thanks in advance for your advice!

Hello, I am assessing whether Front will work for my business use case. I need to use a number of Twilio WhatsApp channels for my clients all of which are Business accounts. Business accounts have some limitations around messaging and messaging windows and as a result need to use pre-cleared message templates when sending messages to users outside of a conversation window. Does Front support sending Twilio message templates via the Front API?Additionally does Front support web hooks for listening to messages (both inbound and outbound messages to the channels?Thanks!

In a dynamic variable for a rule, I’m looking for a way to filter a group by another group, and I’m struggling to figure out how to do this with the existing options.Essentially, I have two groups of teammates: Group A (specific teammate group) and Group B (participants).  I want a new group that is everyone in Group A that is NOT in Group B.The goal is to limit duplicate notifications for a single conversation by notifying only the members of the specific teammate group who are not already subscribed.  Mobile notifications can become very noisy when a team member is already subscribed to a conversation and then receives further notifications for the same message because of triggered rules.

Team is receiving a draft failure unknown email error when trying to send emails?

I am looking to setup on Front to allow agents to view conversations happening in WhatsApp Business accounts that I manage as well as handle quick questions with my API so that agents do not need to handle those types of questions. I have already added the channel but am confused as to how to send messages to users via Front or if I should be sending messages via the Twilio SDK and Front will just sync with Twilio through the channel. Usually platforms like Front have a webhook that I have to plugin to my WhatsApp sender in twilio but that documentation/requirement does not seem to be present for Front? 

I have found document on how to share your calendar with others in order to also see them in Front. However, does Front offer calendar delegation and if so what types of delegation does Front offer (full access, invite only, etc.)?

I am looking to retrieve the First Reply Time for messages via the Analytics API. Maybe I am missing something, but this doesn’t seem to be available in the .csv downloaded. Is there a way to pull this metric via the API?

I created a Telegram bot, linked to my inboxes, and I’m developping a custom integration to send advanced Telegram messages, how can I get the chat_id of this conversation (Telegram-one), so my integrated plugin can retreive it on the current/opened conversation?I managed to get the @username, I have my Telegram bot tokens, but no way to get the chat_id.

Hi, We use Numbers for our whatsapp communication and some of our clients use a emoji on a question or even sends only an emoji as a responds. This only shows blank on FrontSimilar, when a client send or forwards a previous message in the same chat this just shows as a blank. Is there a way to show the emoji’ responses or the forwarded messages?   

I want to send an email using the frontapp api. When the recipient of that email reply to that email, I want him to send that reply email to someone else. How to I set that Reply-to property when I create an email in front? This is the email header I want to set a value for: https://www.getresponse.com/help/reply-to-field.html

Love all the new chatbot features - but when using chatbot a message is automatically hovering over the chat widget - is there a way not to have that and only have the chatbot start when a user actually opens the chat? It is quite annoying for customers to have a big bubble showing if they have no intention of chatting.  

I need a way to reduce the amount of messages sent to our customer support team. For that, I want to create a quiz on my website, that answers user questions before they are able to contact me with a contact form. Only when a certain path thru the quiz is taken, a contact form becomes visible that submits tickets to our Front Inbox.  Do you know a solution for that? 

We want our application to be used as public. That's why we filled out your form and sent it, but we haven't received a response from you for a long time. https://app.frontapp.com/oauth/authorizeWe do not want to receive this warning during authorize. We would be happy if you could help us. 

I’m currently using the custom channel API to send messages into a channel. When replies are made, we get a call on the outbound endpoint. I would like further clarification on what the recipients array is supposed to represent in the payload of that outbound call. It looks like there can be two recipients, with roles “from” and “to”. If I want the user handle of the original message that started the conversation, is it reliable to pull the recipient with role = “to”? Or is that meant to represent something else? Thanks!Kevin 

Hi! My name is Libby and I work for a property management company. We are diving into utilizing Front as a communication solution for our Owner Liaison team (aka client relations team), who work directly with the home owners for our rental properties. We currently operate using individual cell phones and personal phone numbers. While this works just fine for us in the day-to-day, it creates challenges when a team member leaves or a home is assigned to another team mate. We want to incorporate a platform that will sync with Front for calling and texting with owners, so we have a reference record of those communications as well.We are looking into Dialpad, but that seems to require all of the team to change their phone numbers or go through a lengthy porting process.Does anyone use a program that allows you to use an existing phone number for this purpose?

Good morning,When using front’s chat widget, the size of the close button is very small making it difficult to close when on mobile. This is particularly bad because if you miss the `x` button it opens up front chat.Is it possible to change the size, maybe by passing an option to `window.FrontChat("init", { … }` or by styling with css? Thanks,Scott attached below - a screenshot of the small `x`: 

Hi there, We’re super happy with the ability to be able to set business hours and have SLAs/automations (like auto repliers) work based on them. The only thing we’re running into now is there’s no way to account for special days or holidays when configuring our business hours. Google solves for this by adding the ability to configure one-off day schedules (see below). Is there any way or plans to support special hours?  

If we’re using api tokens, what’s the preferred way to handle different environments like staging and production? I would want to ideally create separate tokens based on what data they can access, but it looks like access control is not that granular. If I create a token with “shared resources” access, it basically gives access to everything that is shared. Should we be creating a different workspace instead?

We currently using Front for e-mail communications.  We have received calls from clients indicating that they have sent e-mails to us, and we do not receive them. To confirm, we go into Outlook and there are e-mails from our clients that have not been pushed to Front.  Has anyone else experienced this? We are trying to only use Front for both internal and external communications, but if certain e-mails are not coming through, we will be forced to check Outlook periodically as well and that is inefficient.  If anyone has had this issue, what did you to resolve it?  We need help.  

Hello, I want to download a message (email) as msg file-type via Core API. It’s possible?

Hi All!Is it possible to stop front unassigning a conversation when it is moved from one shared inbox to another? We use inboxes to track workflow so it is confusing those on the team when they move their conversation to the next step in the flow (the next inbox) and it unassigns itself from them.Thanks in advance! 

Hi all!I’ve noticed that, when I reply to a new message in a Front thread, it clears any draft I currently had (i.e, if a new response comes in while I am drafting an email). Is there a way to undo when a draft is cleared or a way for this to not happen at all?Thanks! 

Hi! I have a few questions/comments: Is there a way to export Front contacts just from individual Lists or Accounts, rather than the entire contact list only?  Can Front’s AI suggest changes to contact details, such as:When the contact name format is "Last name, First name" and switch them around Suggest the job title in a signature as their description Suggest the phone number in a signature as phone (and allow extensions)From Front’s API, getting contact details returns "handles" which is a list of all emails and phone numbers in one field. It would be great to get emails and phone numbers separately—even better if there was a "primary" email address.Thanks for the help!