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Hi there! I’ve been tasked with pulling data from a few different inboxes starting from a certain time.I’m trying to use the `q[after]` parameter, but it doesn’t seem to work- it just gets ignored completely. My request is as follows: /inboxes/<inboxid>/conversations?after=1715382074&limit=10&q[after]=1715382074&q[types][]=assigned&q[types][]=unassigned&q[types][]=archived&q[types][]=deleted&sort_by=date&sort_order=ascWhich, more legibly, looks like this:/inboxes/<inboxid>/conversations{ after: 1715382074, limit: 10, sort_by: date, sort_order: asc, q: { after: 1715382074, types: [assigned, unassigned, archived, deleted] },}As you see, the `after` parameter is included in both the top level params and nested under the `q` param. We’ve tried both ways and they are both ignored.Because we’re trying to iterate through this chronologically, we have the `sort` to asc, but that’s causing our earliest conversations to be returned. The tim

Hey Fronteers!When we’re mentioned on Instagram, is there a way to click on the mention from Front and get redirected to Instagram rather than going to Instagram to view the story?Thanks. 

Hi! I am trying to re-create metrics for our own reporting in Tableau but I have a hard time with new and archived conversations. I went through the documentation, and timezone differences are excluded as an error too.New conversations: (https://help.front.com/en/articles/2310)I set new_conversation attribute to true (I assume it’s a flag) and excluded conversations without message_idI still get less than in the front overview reportArchived conversation: https://help.front.com/en/articles/2396For this, I couldn’t find a flag, so I wrote a query in Snowflake. If the last ‘type’ is archived or snoozed, then I counted the conversation ID.max_message_date = message_date and type in (‘archived’,’snoozed’)Here, first i used a timestamp but then used a date instead.I can’t match the values, so any help is appreciated. I can’t 100% match the time metrics either; I get slightly less, especially if I add the business hours flag. (But it’s minor compared to the above.)Thank you!

I currently have a rule to move certain messages with the same subject into a new conversation, in the same inbox.This is a specific type of transactional message that’s received when customer’s complete a form. We don’t have control over the subject line, which is always the same, so they stack up in a single thread otherwise.The rule is successfully splitting up these messages. However, tagging does not seem to work.The first message of the day for this type does get tagged per what I have setup in the rule, but subsequent messages do not.I’m not sure if there’s a specific order of operations that should happen, if a separate rule can catch these “Move message to new conversation” actions, or if this is a limitation of the rule action itself.Curious to know if anyone else has run into this or if there’s a solution.

Hey there!Is there a way to enable font dialog box on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook channel in Front, just like it is on the Email channel?  

Hi, I’ve built a front sidebar plugin a couple of years ago and I was using the auth_secret to authenticate the users from front to my app, before I was doing something like:export function getInstallationInformation(callback) { callback = once(callback); Front.contextUpdates.subscribe(context => { callback({authSecret: context.preferences.authSecret}); });}Now I’m refactoring the plugin, and I noticed that in the docs it says that the auth_secret is going to be sent in the URL.Does front still support the the context.preferences ?Thank you!

I’m attempting to sync messages by consuming the `events` api. However, what I’m noticing is that in some cases, there is no event for a given inbound message. Is this expected behaviour? For example, here is an events call I’m making:https://myorg.api.frontapp.com/events?q[after]=1706030839&q[types]=message_bounce_error&q[types]=inbound&q[types]=outbound&q[types]=out_reply&q[types]=sending_error&q[types]=forward While there are many inbound message events, I do not get all of them. For example, if I use the conversations/{id}/message endpoint with some conversation IDs, I can see messages received shortly after 1706030839, but there is no corresponding event.

I’m trying to send a WhatsApp mesaage to around 200 contacts but I get this error “This channel is limited to 5 recipients per message”How can I change this limit? 

Currently Front is asking users who need to log email to salesforce to send the email and then seek out the sent item and log it manually as a second step.  This is not productive and difficult to get user buy in for.When will Front have a send & log feature to automate the look up to the contact and opportunity record to have a single step to log the email activity?Right now Front is sending all sent email at the account level which is creating noise and reporting difficulty and none of that mail is related to the opportunity record.

I am looking for Audit logs for users added recently on Front. Is there any specific place i can go to extract this information.

I used to receive email notification of changes to the API functionality.I recently found that the maximum limit parameter for an event fetch has been reduced from 100 eventsto 15 events, but I had not received an email relating to this.Do such changes still get announced to an email distribution ?

Hi, I have a rule setup that says when an individual gets an email it should be moved to a shared inbox. I want to set the rule that says not to move calendar invites sent to the individual. I have tried a rule to say if the header contains Exchange-Calendar then to notify the inbox owner and stop processing any other rules. I had this set up as rule number 1 but it still went to rule number 2 and sent to the shared mailbox.  I am probably looking at the wrong header section but is there a better or correct way to set a rule against a calendar invite?

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Currently for sales users who need to log email to a salesforce opporutnity need to first send the message and then go back to sent items to add the email. Or Front is recommending that you turn on the Bcc feature in salesforce to accomplish this.  Will there be a "send & log" feature out outgoing messages using Front & Salesforce

Hi Everyone!We have been using Front in conjunction with Twilio and Courier to send WhatsApp messages to our users. Using all three platforms is a long and tedious process. We use Twilio to approve WhatsApp marketing templates and add buttons, then we copy that template to a Courier template and add our list of users we want to send the WhatsApp message to and then send the template to the users on Courier and then we respond to user replies on Front. My question is can we do all of this just on Front? If so please let me know how or how to simplify this process.  

When I’m viewing Message Templates, I’d like to be able to see the Date Last Modified. Right now, the view only shows “Date created.”  There’s plenty of screen real estate to do so.  

I have setup a simple chatbot that collects a device brand, and the repair that is needed for the device. Ideally after collecting these two pieces of information, the chatbot would use the connected Knowledge Base to find the article with pricing and provide the repair price back. Right now, the chatbot asks the question “How can I assist you with the *device model*? Is it possible to skip this question either through a setting or by providing more information prior to the AI Answers module? For further clarification, I’ve attached a screenshot below. 

I have a question regarding how the frontChatChannel cookie is associated with previous session. Let me describe the weird behavior of Front’s chat bot on our website. See the steps described below. I navigate our webapp’s /login url as a logged out user, then locate frontChatChannel cookie and remove it for the domain.  I assume since there’s now no cookie/token, there’s also no association with prior user session, so the Front chat bot won’t recognize my user’s identity.  Now, I click the chat’s icon, and observe that there are some options to pick from before getting to the text input.  I clicked “Login & Access” option, and saw “How can we help” question with a text area. Observe that no email is being asked.  My message was received via Slack notification and Frontapp as well, and I’ve got this auto-generated name: Salmon BoaCan we change this anywhere so the generated names for anonymous users aren’t such as Salmon Boa, Navy Antelope, Coral Alligator, etc? We see these a lot

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Hello,When using the Core API to create a new conversation and signature has dynamic variables such as {{user.name}}, it appears that it does not populate with the user name and just sends exactly that text {{user.name}}Is this a bug?If yes do you have some time line then it will be fixed?

Hi there! We are looking to transition another team over to Front. They currently operate using Google Groups instead of a Google Email Account. There is not a way “on the Google side” to transition a Google Group to a Google Email Account. So we are looking into Google’s option of a Collaborative Inbox. I am trying to figure out if the Collaborative Inbox would be configured the same way as a standard Google Email Account would be through Front? Or would this be set up as a Google Group in Front? The distinction between the two on our end is that the Google Group does not have a 2-way sync, but a standard Google Email Account does. 

Hi does anyone know what the small arrow highlighted in the screen shot refers to?Thanks! 

I understand that the external ID can be set when creating an account, but I need to update the external ID after the account has been created. The documentation does not mention how to update an external ID. I attempted to patch the update using 'external_id', but this approach was unsuccessful. One possible workaround is to automate the process of deleting the account and recreating it with the correct external ID, although I would prefer to avoid this method.     

We have a user who has reported “Ghost” emails, sent only to them, that were previously archived, reappear in their personal inbox.  There seems to be no activity that would trigger this behavior.  Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?  Is there any administrator-accessible forensic data, that can be examined to determine why these emails are reappearing?