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Hello, Some of our associates prefer having their monitor set up vertically for the monitor they have email open on. In Outlook, you can change the reading pane to be on the bottom instead of the right, making it easier to read. Is there any way to change the orientation of things in Front?

Hey, we’re trying to integrate our analytics platform using OAuth.We’ve created an app and copied correctly the client_id, added the redirect urls in the Oauth page as specified and followed the docs but in the Request authorization step we get: “403: Unauthorized client”What is the meaning of this response, please?

What are the benefits of using Dialpad with Front? I’m mostly looking for a feature we can enable for SMS messages, but am interested in learning other possibilities. Is there an article I can read more about this?

Greetings, I understand that Front supports the integration of app objects with TMS software. However, I would like to inquire if it is specifically compatible with McLeod TMS for our company's use. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards,  Marcus

Hello, We are currently having a downtime and need to send the same message to everyone who has contacted us. Is there a way to send a bulk message in Front?

I’m trying to get a support team to follow the best practice of “if it’s a new query, move it to a new conversation”. However, when they do this, a reply time SLA is not triggered, which I would expect to happen as a new message has been received, and a new conversation created (manually). Is this a gap in functionality or an error? Thanks!

Hello everyone, I am a bit confused by the pricing of WhatsApp. The comparative table states that WhatsApp is available on all plans with third-party integration (I understand this refers to Twilio). However, there are no comparisons showing how to have the Front version. Only at checkout I find out I need the growth plan and additionally to buy 70 USD worth of credits. Are these credits on top of 1000 monthly free credits that WhatsApp provides ? Thank you for your time.George 

Hello everyone, Is it possible to receive and send voice messages in the Front App on mobile when using the WhatsApp channel ? Thank you. George

I’m trying to send a SMS message on a Twilio channel using the API and Postman with a contact card / vcard and it doesn’t appear to play well with attachment files. Or maybe something is missing in the documentation.I get a success response, and the sms comes through with the attachment, however the attachment doesn’t use the name or the file type so the user can’t just tap the attachment to add to contacts.It does show up correctly in the Front UI.From API Response:"attachments": [ { "id": "fil_231iuypv", "url": "https://equipmentshare-com.api.frontapp.com/download/fil_231iuypv", "filename": "vcard.vcf", "content_type": "text/x-vcard", "size": 2238, "metadata": { "is_inline": false } } ], How the message comes through. It shows as a plain text file that you have to download, then rename to open. It should use the name provided from Postman. 

Hello,I’ve noticed that the “compose with AI” spelling and grammar tool offered in Front is very inconsistent. It generally catches spelling errors, but the grammar and punctuation check leaves a lot to be desired. When it isn’t functioning, sometimes it will work if you highlight the content and then do the spell check. Though, sometimes even this trick doesn’t work.With Grammarly no longer supporting Front integration, is there any advice out there? My work solely relies on the app and not web browsers for their emails. It would be awesome if Front were working to improve this.

Hi all, How are linked conversations represented in the API? Specifically about talking the new feature from this past November:  There’s a notion of Links in the API, and an ability to connect them to conversations, but that seems to be primarily for external links. Are linked conversations treated as Links in this way, just that they’re internal ones? Would they have a guaranteed/stable “type” field? Or are they accessible/editable in some other way? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, I have just started using a chatbot and I am loving it but I am stuck on one part.  I want to authorise a user based on their email address they submit.  I have created an Open Ended Question “To see if you qualify for support, please enter your email address?” once they enter i cannot see how using ‘Branch by visitor data’ or ‘Branch by keywords’ how to take this input, check if the user already exists.I mistakenly tried to use ‘Collect contact details’ first but realised that this actually creates the contacts.If anyone has any ideas about this or smarter ways of doing authentication against contacts then i would love to hear your ideas.Keep up the good work, the chatbot will be a gamechanger for us and allow us to move away from email support.Chris

Is it possible to implement a “time to first response” SLA that only looks at the time between the first message and the subsequent reply? Use case: Implement a Time to First Response SLA which measures the time from the very first message received in a conversation, to the very first reply sent. I’ve tried implementing the rule with a “when” condition of “doesn’t have tag ‘First Reply Sent’”, which is added by another rule when the first reply is sent. However, this seems to do weird things with reporting, as the analytics can see that an SLA breach tag is added when the SLA is breached, then removed when the reply is sent, but seems to think that the SLA no longer applies because the First Reply Sent tag has been added, so it doesn’t show the conversation in the “SLA breaches” stats. Note that it does show the conversation in the “SLA breach time (avg)” stat, which is a little confusing If there’s another way to implement this, please let me know!

I was thinking of creating shifts for when we have people coming in to work on the weekends they can be temporarily added to the weekend shift. That way others could see who else was working. Is there a better way to handle this? If not, how do you create a shift without having someone assigned to it?

Is there a Teams plugin in available or any plans to integrate it in the future?

Front does not support a development sandbox, so we setup a separate Front instance to build our app integration. We are hitting the 2 channel limit on the free plan, so we are not able to test all 3 channels that we support: chat, SMS, and email. Is there a way to get our staging instance upgraded at no cost? Or is there some other way to configure our paid Front instance for use in a staging/development environment?

Hello Everyone,  Just wanted to check in if anyone has had experience with connecting MS Forms as a channel.We are exploring the possibility of having Form based data coming in from our users, and since MS Forms is part of our M365 suite, wanted to check if it is recommended, if not, we will explore 3rd party forms to connect instead. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Hey everyone, I am in need of some assistance.I am currently working on a feature where once an email is sent, we want to assign a specific user to the conversation and also immediately snooze.The good thing, is that both assignment and snoozing works just fine, but… for some weird reason, the newly snoozed email stays in the ‘Open’ tab of my inbox rather than moving into ‘Snoozed’.  When I scroll to the bottom of the conversation, I can also see an orange notification bubble which does confirm that it has been snoozed ⬇️ Is anyone able to help me with this?Kind Regards,Gabor

Hello! I’m currently trying to configure the AI portion of my chatbot. I have set up an external facing knowledge base for the Chatbot to pull from. I have also editing my flow code to incorporate the AI answer feature after open-ended questions as well. However, every time I go to test the feature within the “Preview Mode” the AI Chatbot never produces any answers to my question. Based on this I had a couple of questions: Does the AI feature only work on the User End? Is there another method of testing the AI Chatbot? I would like to see if my knowledge base needs to be updated before making the feature live to my users. 

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to send one of the preconfigured WhatsApp template messages through the mobile App ?I can do this through the web UI but can not seem to find the equivalent on the mobile App. Thank you in advance.George

Hello everyone, In this thread it states that it is not possible to reply to WhatsApp threads with a mimicked template body:  I was wondering what happens in the following scenarios:   a. If I have pre-approved templates for WhatsApp that I can trigger from the UI. Is there a way to trigger them from the API ?   b. If yes, is there a way to reply with one these templates as a follow up to the users answer through the API ? Thank you for your time. - George  

Hi - As of now, we have a Customer Account plugin (which pulls all the info from our database) which can be accessed via the Side Panel but we’re finding we consistently need to navigate further into the Customer Account in order to action a very common request from our Customers. I would like to know if Front is able to accommodate a custom dashboard plugin that displays the necessary tools to action these very common requests from our Customers. Thank you.

Hi Team, I have somebody who's primarily in a different email that is not part of Front and they want to be notified at that different email when something happens regarding them in Front so that they can log in their Front account and address the notification. What is the best setting approach you recommend?  I am looking forward to your response.

We have an app added to Front, and many Front clients can install and start using it. I have set up Application Webhooks for this app. For the app to function properly, our clients need to contact us to set up a corresponding account in our system. As part of the setup process, the user would authorize us through the OAuth flow. When we publish the app, we have a concern that a random user might install the app and, because the app has webhooks enabled, we may start receiving events. In the Front documentation, we have seen the following section in the Webhooks chapter:“OAuth is required for published appsIf your webhook is part of an app that you are publishing on our App Store, you must add OAuth to the app so that customers can authorize that Front events be sent to your webhook from their instance.” We want to make sure we understand correctly that only those instances which have authorized the app through OAuth will send events via webhook.Thank you for your assistance. Best regar

Hey team, How can I use front API to reply to emails using templates which I created in Front ?