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Hi,Our team recently started using Front to help triage incoming emails within a shared inbox. We have a set portfolio of customers, and created rules to automatically assign emails to individuals based on the customer name and the @ domain of the originating email. However, there are some customers and business partners that use the same @ domain in their email address so the rules are assigning to the wrong employee or not assigning at all.Has anyone else run into this issue, or know of any additional rules we could put in place to separate multiple accounts that use the same email address? 

Hey my goal is to save the attachment in the inbound message and save it in my google drive.When I am using the link “https://api2.frontapp.com/download/fil_2lrutl53”, it’s giving error: {"_error":{"status":401,"title":"Unauthenticated","message":"JSON Web Token error"}}To solve this I am using this API endpoint:https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/download-attachment I am getting below response:  Is there anything I am doing incorrectly. Also if there is any other alternate approach to achieve my goal please do let me know. Thanks

I am encountering an issue while testing Webhook integration. Despite following the related documentation, I am unable to successfully create a webhook.To facilitate local testing, I am using ngrok. I have set up a path to receive payloads from the webhook and configured it to return the x_front_challenge, 200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"} as suggested in the documentation. However, I still receive a "Webhook verification failed" error.Here is the relevant portion of my code:I am not encountering any errors within the function itself, so I suspect the issue may be related to the return statement. Any assistance in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.(I am working on Odoo/Python btw)Thank you. 

Hello everyone!     Our team uses front as an internal ticketing system between contact center agents and us. This could be requests from attendance to volunteer time off. We have the CSAT form implemented in the signature of all our replies. But rarely get responses. Any ideas to improve the use of CSAT surveys from our contact center agents?  Thanks!

Hello everyone!     We have been using front for over a year now, and just realized it had a knowledge base function! We have added multiple types of information and are happy with the finished product. But I am interested in the functionality of the “Knowledge” icon on the plugin bar. Once clicked I see that no KB has been published for our company yet. What is the best way to publish our existing KB, so end users can view content while responding to messages. Do I just have the knowledge base published for only our workspace?  I appreciate the help!

Hello there, I’m not sure if the exposed API has a route that triggers the typing indicator animation seen when typing a messaging in the Chat UI. I’ve seen requests made to `precog/continue/message` that trigger the rendering of the indicator, but I’m not 100% sure. Would love to know if anyone has run into this and how you’ve worked around it. Thanks!

Hello Everyone,There’s been a recent happening in Front, not sure if it’s a bug. We have two customers emails coming through to Front under the same email thread. Has anyone experienced this before and what’s the fix for it? Thank you.

Hello there!Is there any other solution, except for Rules, to update contact custom fields after Form* submission? I need to pass the form’s Extra Fields values to a contact. * - https://help.front.com/en/articles/2024  

When we get a new email with an account we have never seen before and then create the account using the API, why are the contacts not automatically added to this account? We thought that front would sync these automatically based on the email domain? I can see that the account is created and when I select “New Account” I can see the account we created via the API but the contact is not synced. Then in other cases it sometimes works...

Trying to upsert a front account using the sdk. Its (like most of the API I have to say extremely cumbersome). This is my code snippet: async function upsertFrontAccount(validatedAddress: any): Promise<any> {try {return await sdk.createAccount({name: validatedAddress.company || "Unknown Company",domains: [validatedAddress.emailDomain],custom_fields: {Adresse: validatedAddress.address,PLZ: validatedAddress.zip,Stadt: validatedAddress.city,Land: validatedAddress.country || "Germany",Umsatzsteuernummer: validatedAddress.vatId,Website: validatedAddress.url,},});} catch (error) {console.log("ERROR ON UPDATE", error.res);if (error.status === 409) {try {await sdk.updateAccount({account_id: `alt:domain:${validatedAddress.emailDomain}`,},{name: validatedAddress.company || "Unknown Company",domains: [validatedAddress.emailDomain],custom_fields: {Adresse: validatedAddress.address,PLZ: validatedAddress.zip,Stadt: validatedAddress.city,Land: validatedAddress.country || "Germany",Umsatzsteuern

Hi! Does anyone have any information on how the auto-tagging works? What is it looking for? We just set Front up and it’s pulling in newsletters under the Sales Response tag.

Would be wonderful if we can track AI usage in the analytics ? We pay for this feature and we have no idea how our colleagues use this new crazy feature. Are you planning this in the roadmap for the coming weeks ?  

Hi everyone,I'm encountering a problem with how Front handles new email addresses from our clients in conjunction with Salesforce.Here’s our setup:We use Salesforce to store all our contacts. These contacts are then imported into Front as shared contacts.The issue arises when:A new client emails us, or an existing client emails from a new email address.Front auto-creates a new contact for this email address.When we update Salesforce with the new email address, it does not merge with the existing shared contact in Front. Instead, it remains as a separate contact.This results in duplicated contacts and can cause confusion within our team.Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, how did you resolve it? Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!Thank you!

Hello, we’d like to learn when the best time is to send emails to various people that we’ve communicated with before. Does anyone have tips or scripts on how to do that?All I can think of is to do the following; any other suggestions?Search for all messages for each email address Iterate through each message: “Get message seen status” (which seems to show only the first seen - not sure if there’s any way to see every time it was seen?) Get the message created_at (date at which the message as been sent or received) Compare “seen” and “created_at” to address Apple mail and similar proxy views (i.e. “seen” within 1 minute of open) Disregard or weigh those lower. Then finally process all that info to somehow figure out the best send time by somehow weighting “first seen” in relation to day/time and frequency across all messages with a person.  Not sure best way to “math that out” so to speak? Does that sound about right or is there any better way to do it, or somehow involve AI if

As an admin, can I connect O365 email channels (private inboxes, shared inboxes, and distro lists alike) to Front programmatically through the API without touching the Front UI at all?Use case: a customer is migrating from Gmail to Outlook and making a domain change to all their email addresses, and they’re looking for the best way to reconnect all these channels to Front. If it’s not possible to do this programmatically, will they have to re-connect each channel by hand?

I am constantly asked to stop sending my messages at night.I can choose for each and every message a ‘send later’. But I would like to be able to have a global rule to ask to stop sending messages until xx:xx am. Tt would be possible to bypass this rule for specific messages.  

{{recipient.first_name}} Pulling Entire Name IssuesSpacing them evening Have tried using dashes, parentheses, quotes, etc. When a recipient has a longer name that includes details we like to track, the {{recipient.first_name}} variable ends up pulling the entire contact name, not just their first name. Then, if I remove the full name and have it just First + Last name, {{recipient.first_name}} behaves correctly again.In the example below, the contact details, the first name, and initials show up just fine next to the account details. This glitch only affects about 20 out of our 100+ contacts that we are doing this for, but it makes our automated messages look super robotic.Any ideas on how we can fix this?Example is using this template:“Hi {{recipient.first_name}}, great news! We’ve received your signed contract and are excited to start working with you :)” With just first + last name:One first + last name, still using {{recipient.first_name}}--------------With First + Last Name + Titl

What happens when a customer engages with AI Answers and the answer is somewhat off, but the customer either self-selected that the answer was helpful, or they dropped off so it was counted as a resolution? Will that skew future AI Answers for similar questions? My worry is that if an answer is logged as a “resolution” (even when the answer is not ideal) then AI Answers will continue to use that answer in the future. My hope is that the Knowledge Base is the only source of truth and AI Answers always scans the Knowledge Base for a fresh answer, and does not leverage prior answers that it has sent in the past. When I’ve found answers that were slightly off but counted as resolutions, I’ve made updates to our Knowledge Base, and I’m hoping that was all that is needed to give AI Answers a better shot of answering more correctly next time!

Hello Team, We are currently implementing the OAuth flow in our application to support multiple Front users. Our application uses a common redirect URL to receive the OAuth token after the user grants permission. However, we are facing a challenge in identifying to which user's request the token was sent. Could you please advise on how to correctly identify the user associated with each token received through the common redirect URL?Thank you for your assistance. Regards,Karthik Vishwambarkvishwambar@amgine.ai

Hello,I am looking to perform a migration between Front and HubSpot, and I am trying to retrieve the attachments from a conversation. I have not been able to find the ID of the attachments in order to then make a GET request and download them.Here is the endpoint provide by front to download attachment : https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/download-attachment Could someone provide me with information on this?Best regards

As an admin, it will be very usefull to have a way to investigate where a message is. Sometimes agent applies macro that will move messages to another box with restricted access and users can’t understand. As an admin, I wish to be able to past the message ID to retrieve where it is and give to informations to my team 

Hey everyone! After a user approves Front for OAuth with our app, is there a way to get:The individual user ID who actually did the OAuth? Access to the individual inbox itself?Thank you!

‘A future update to Front's OAuth implementation will allow you to specify the permissions scopes that you need’I need scope in OAuth token to get private resourcesCan you confirm how to add scope for private in OAuth

Hello, I need to write a script that will download attachments (specifically Excel spreadsheets) from Front shared inboxes. I have the API key/ InboxID however AI isn’t much help on the actual process of it. If anyone could point me to some resources I would appreciate it, thank you.

We uploaded our custom fonts to our knowledge base, but it affects ALL the text, which makes the body text harder to read. It would be nice for either the uploaded custom text to only affect the header text or for us to be able to choose.