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siddharam_goranale91Conversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

Store private app concfiguration in app settings

We have developed a custom app for Front to display insights, and we would like to store the app's configuration directly within the app settings for ease of access and management. Could you please guide us on the following points:Is it possible to store custom configuration data within the app settings in Front? If yes, what is the recommended approach or API to achieve this? Are there any limitations or best practices we should consider while implementing this functionality?Your assistance would be greatly appreciated, as it will help us optimize our app and ensure a seamless user experience.Looking forward to your guidance.

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2 days ago

baris_celikConversationalist

asked in Get started on Front

Tips and Tricks

What are some of the best tips’ and tricks for users moving from traditional outlook?

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2 days ago

idoRookie

asked in Product Q&A

starting a whatsapp conversation?

Hi All,we have integrated our business whatsapp (not through) Twilo and I was wondering how can I initiate an our going conversation? Thanks, Ido

2 days ago

kmitchConversationalist

asked in Product Q&A

Code block issues with article in Knowledge Base

Hello! I’ve been having issues using the code block feature when creating an article in the knowledge base. Is there a specific formatting type that I need to use? I have a standard iframe code.

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3 days ago

meganatencampConversationalist

asked in Product Q&A

Tips or Tools for storing customer information

For our enterprise customers, we want to store information that can be easily referenced in Front. Sometimes it’s structured information like the main point of contact on the account or it’s just general notes about customers like “this customer uses teams vs zoom.” Does anyone have any examples of how they’ve set this up with Front? Whether it’s pulling from a 3rd party or stored in Front?

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4 days ago

daveRookie

asked in Workflows discussion

SLA rules not applying to tickets that come in after business hours

I have set my company SLAs for 4 hours and a warning at 3 hours. The team operates from 9 am to 740pm EST. When tickets come in outside this window, no SLA rules apply to them. When I read articles, it says that if a ticket comes in, say, 1 hour before the end of business hours, then the next day, you will have 3 hours to answer before the breach, but this is not working for me. Any insight is appreciated.

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4 days ago

aniko_lorinczConversationalist

asked in Workflows discussion

Move email to a shared inbox with Comments

Hi All,I am curious to know how you handle emails that needs to be moved into a shared inbox with lengthy comments? Is there a maximum number of letters capacity? Is moving emails with comments the best practice when handing over partially actioned emails to another team? Or @mention works better?Thank you

6 days ago

timchambersRookie

asked in Developer discussion

API access to Teammate Groups (not contact groups)

I understand that Teammate Groups is a relatively new feature, which might explain why it’s not available in the API yet, but I was wondering when/if we might gain access to those groups of Front users that we define and use for managing Inbox access, etc. (found in the app under Settings > Company > Teammate groups).So far, references to “teammate groups” in the API documentation seem to reference contact groups owned by a team member, which is not what I’m looking for.Perhaps this question is also related to Front’s SCIM functionality–is there any documentation related to that functionality?

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8 days ago

laceylanzoConversationalist

asked in Workflows discussion

Utilizing Teammate Groups to cover OOO

We currently have teams of 4 users assigned to each of our clients. The problem is that, when someone is out, we have to assign ALL the access in our softwares to a separate/new team member for a short period of time. This takes a lot of time to add them individually to all the shared inboxes they need.It seems like Groups could help us assign access to all the inboxes faster. Could I create some kind of team group, then just add the TEMP team member to the team group? That way I do not need to add them to ALL the shared inboxes individually?

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10 days ago

softwareConversationalist

asked in Get started on Front

I cant create the new compan rule

Hi. I’m trying the new company rule but create rule button doesn’t work. Otherwise I can create for the Share rule page and making the enable the rule. Just doesn’work the company rule. I thinked my licence not enough the new company rule. Thanks for returns :)

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11 days ago

daniela_hConversationalist

asked in Workflows discussion

Rules & Workflows

Hello Everyone, Automation is the key word in my company. With the rules and workflows in Front, it helps agents work more efficiently, but I’m convinced we can do more with these automations. We still have so many emails in the general inbox to process manually. How can we reduce this? Additionally, we’ve set up rules with tags, but they’re not always followed. Do you know why ?

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11 days ago

KristenRookie

asked in Product Q&A

What is the best way to go about different time zones in the same company?

At my company we have a group of several people working in different time zones. I would like to know how I can automate a response timer that would work for everyone individually without having to automate a separate rules for each member?

11 days ago

MaximRookie

asked in Product Q&A

How do i configure AI.

Hey guys.I tried to set up AI sentiment tags for my workspace today but ran into a problem: Each tag required "10 approved messages." I have not been able to find out how to approve said messages, and I was curious to know if anyone could help.

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11 days ago

KristenRookie

asked in Product Q&A

What is the best way to overview my teams work without being too involved?

Throughout the learning path I have seen a few ways to oversee my employees in their work, but I am looking for the most hands-free way to just have a quick oversight without looking at the statistics. I have thought of automating tags for if there were to be an SLA breach or a churn risk etc. that would be visible in my views tab, but I am wondering if there is an easier way to do this?

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11 days ago

MaximRookie

asked in Product Q&A

How do i import a knowledge base

Hey there!My team is currently creating a knowledge base in trainual.com. I was wondering if anyone could share some insight on how I could import this knowledge base into Front.com without just doing it manually.

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11 days ago

harryConversationalist

asked in Product Q&A

Data retention without access using macro

This may be a long complicated question but we are hoping for a simple answer. We have emails coming in that need to be escalated to a higher tier. We have a macro that performs the flow of tagging, moving and assigning which works correctly. We want to capture the analytics from the higher tier which the macro allows but we also want the source to retain access to only the original inbound email. The original email comes in to our team and they determine if it needs escalation and activate the macro. We would like the original email to be retained by the team should they need to reference it. At the higher tier there may be confidential material we do not want the team to access but so far all our efforts show the emails are connected and data is shared across them. So how do we allow one team to retain a source email only and not have access to the escalated email while using a macro?

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12 days ago

rob_jiangConversationalist

asked in Developer Q&A

How to turn message.created_at to timestamp?

I face a very weird situation when trying to convert the message.created_at to the timestamp. Firstly, my understanding is that the date type for the created_at is float. Is that correct? So the number is the seconds passed since epic, and fraction is the millisconds. Did I understand it correctly? Then I used the following code to turn it into Java Date object.new java.util.Date(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis((long)last_message.created_at.floatValue()))Then I used the following code to transform the Date into stringnew SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS"); There are two things weird:(1) I have two messages, sent in absolutely different time, 20 - 30 seconds apart. But somehow the output of timestamp is exactly the same.(2) For afternoon 1pm, instead showing 13:xx:xx, it shows 01:xx:xx.

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16 days ago

lindsey_biggsConversationalist

asked in Product Q&A

Rules stopped working

Hi guys! Some of our rules have stopped working. Any idea why this might be, and how to restore their functionality?

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19 days ago

grodwRookie

asked in Workflows discussion

Front - better notifications

I wanted to share with you a certain automation we have done locally and also ask you if perhaps I am overengineering it and there is a better way to proceed.What I don’t like about Front (and it is literally the only thing I genuinely consider inferior) is its notifications - for me the popup shows for too short and is sometimes hardly noticeable.So what we did is we implemented an automation, that runs every 2 minutes checking recent Front comments and searches for “@-mentions” in them. Whenever it spots one, we connect to Webex via its own API and send a notification to a user corresponding to the Front user, letting him or her know that there is a message waiting. It works much, much better and I love that solution.Now, perhaps there is something similar already in Front that I missed? I was looking for IFTTT integration, but failed to find it, so built our own ;)

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25 days ago

grodwRookie

asked in Workflows discussion

Follow-the-sun and calculations

Hi Folks,A question regarding your best practices - our team follows the follow-the-sun principle, meaning that we have members in most time zones and the conversation is passed from one to the other. Now, as we all know things such as SLAs or resolution times are calculated within business hours only. So do you know how Front calculates that given the principle I mentioned earlier? At the same time, I wanted to use shifts to understand who is available at the given moment. Finally, how do you handle holidays? Do you know of a way to exclude certain day from business days for given group of users? Tried using the Calendar feature, but couldn’t figure it out…Thanks!

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25 days ago

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