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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? 

How can I get the tag id for a tag if I only know the tag name?Other than list all the tags with the API https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/list-tags and then search the tag name one by one, if there is any other way to do this?

Hi! I'm currently working on a use case within my company where we need to list conversations of a specific recipient, sorted by creation date. While the Search conversations endpoint seems promising and returns the created_at field, the conversations aren't sorted accordingly. Is there a way to sort conversations by created_at field in Search conversations endpoint? I'm unable to use the List conversations endpoint due to the need to filter conversations by recipient. Any insights or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I’m trying to receive incoming messages over a custom channel. I created the custom channel in my Front instance and copied the channel id from the Incoming API Endpoint. In order to test, I added the necessary values on the API docs page and gave it a try:➜  ~ curl --request POST \     --url https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_g65ng/incoming_messages \     --header 'accept: application/json' \     --header 'authorization: Bearer XXXXX' \     --header 'content-type: application/json' \     --data '{  "subject": "Sample Subject",  "body": "Sample Body"}'{"_error":{"status":400,"title":"Bad request","message":"Body did not satisfy requirements","details":["body.sender: missing"]}}I tried a couple of modifications hoping to back into a solution, but still the same general error:➜  ~ curl --request POST \     --url https://api2.frontapp.com/channels/cha_g65ng/incoming_messages \     --header 'accept: application/json' \     --header 'authorization: Bearer XXXXX' \     --header 'content-

Is there a way to enable a signature to automatically appear at the end of every message? It works on email but is there a plugin or a feature coming that will allow the signature to appear on anything non email. It could just be a Front feature that puts it in the text box for you. Doesn’t have to sync with the respective apps

Hi there!I’m looking for a smart way how to catch-up again with customers later - if they would love to.We frequently get request from customers e.g. where they can buy our products (if out of stock).Out team replies that the given product is currently out of stock but will be available again soon.We would love to give the customer the choice:"If you would like to be notified as soon as the product is available, click this LINK."Kind of RSVP. If the customer clicks the link, Front should somehow add a dedicated TAG to the conversation (or put the customer contact to a list or anything else). Our goal is that we can easily find, follow up and inform those customers later. I can imagine of a lot of similar scenarios for this: feature requests, keep-me-posted on delays, RSVP, etc.How can this be solved best?ThanksPaul

Hi,I have organized my call/voicemail logs into the custom channel and it is showing as expected. i want to associate those logs in respective contacts too. is there a way to organize custom channel message to the contacts object ? 

I’m trying to use this Open API json file to generate Java client code to call Front’s API. I’m using maven and the openapi-generator-maven-plugin version 6.2.1.The first time I tried to do this, it failed with this message:-attribute components.schemas.KnowledgeBaseArticleResponse.items is missingI fixed this by adding"items": { "type": "string"},to line 2590.Then I tried again. It failed because the Java code is not valid. There's errors in a number of files, like EventResponseSourceData. Has anyone had success generating Java client code using the above mentioned file?

With the current sandboxing rules if you have a link that opens in a new window (which is allowed) using `target=”_blank”` the window opens but it is restricted to the same sandbox as the original iFrame. Adding `allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox` should allow that new window to break out of the sandbox. This is useful because once you are out of the sidebar iframe allowing confirm and alert pop ups no longer has the risk that they will be confused with popups from the container page. Allowing these as well as downloading etc on the new page would be useful in a number of cases. I understand that you should be able to use the SDK and the `openUrl` function that should function similarly, but depending on the application and use case updating the `target` on urls could be simpler solution. I can add this to the ideas board as well, but this seems like more of a bug or oversight since the sandbox already includes `allow-popups`.

When using the API to POST a new email draft, I receive the following error if the recipient list is longer than 21 addresses:{    "_error": {        "status": 400,        "title": "Bad request",        "message": "Body did not satisfy requirements",        "details": [            "body.cc: should be an array"        ]    }} Does anyone know why this is the case?Thank you.