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Chris C11Active User
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Alert sales when event X occurs

When a user clicks “upgrade now” in our app we fire off an event called “upgrade requestes”. I want this upgrade request to somehow land in the shared inbox used by our sales team. This ensures nothing is missed. I’d also be OK if a ticket was created. I also would prefer that this is silent, ie the customer would not need to do anything after they clicked upgrade requested.I tried to do this with a series and also with a workflow. Issue with seriesThere is no option to create a ticket. A message can be created but unless the customer replies to the message it cannot be tracked. We don’t want the message to be sent to the customer, we just want a silent alert to sales, a message with a note alone would even work.Issue with workflowThe only option for the second step (before creating ticket, etc.) is to put up a dialog box with path choices. This again does not solve my issue of silently alerting/tracking in Intercom. Is there some way I can use this event to make something trackable in

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Jobi JohnNew Participant
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How do people recommend their team to manage Intercom conversation notifications?

Hey yall, conversations that are assigned automatically send 3 separate emails to the assigned teammate:One email about conversation contents Second email that the conversation was assigned to them Third email that the conversation was assigned to the Support Team they are onThis feel like a lot of emails for just one conversation. I talked to Intercom support and they said this is operating as expected, but that they’d put in a feature request for this.In the meantime, I recommended that our Support Team should have at least the following notifications enabled: Any mentions of you in a conversation Activity in anything assigned to youI was thinking about having them set it one up as an email and the other as a desktop banner notification - thoughts?

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halcyoncvNew Participant
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I want Tips on Improving User Onboarding with Intercom

Hey everyone,I have using Intercom to improve user onboarding for our product & I want  advice from those who have experience with it. I want to create a smooth; engaging onboarding process that helps new users quickly understand how to use our features and get the most out of the product.What strategies or features within Intercom have you found most effective for onboarding users? I have been exploring things like automated messages and in app guidance but I want to hear about any other tools or tips that have worked for you. I have also been using uipath for some automation in our workflow, so any ideas on integrating that with Intercom would be awesome.Also, how do you balance automation with personalization in your onboarding flow? I want to make sure users feel welcomed without overwhelming them with too much info upfront. Thank you... 😊

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Marcelo MaderiaConnector
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Automatically close conversations due to inactivity within the initial bot

What are the best practices for 'Automatically closing abandoned workflow conversations'? 

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Steeve Cayla
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Federico RagonaNew Participant
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Monitor delivery of WhatsApp messages

Hello,I’m using the Data Events API to send WhatsApp messages to customers and I’m looking for a way to programmatically check that they have been successfully delivered (within a given interval of time). These messages are more like notifications, so I cannot rely on customers replying to them (in which case I’d have Conversations that I can query via the API), so I would like to be able to confirm that the message has been delivered through WhatsApp. Is this possible at all? Thanks in advance!

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Anna sNew Participant
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[iOS Native] When App is closed and push notification is clicked, the chat/post does not open in the app.

Hi! We would like to send a short summer message as a chat bot message, on top, of the ordinary that we have today. how do i add that to our bot?

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SinaMNew Participant
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Jira For Ticket 401 error

HelloThere is bug in the integration,Sometimes tickets fail creating with Unauthorized error from jira It seems the intercom is using a wrong/expired header token while sending request to jira I attached here the screenshots  

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Derek LakinNew Participant
asked in Automations
Map List Attributes to a Numeric Value

I’ve built a data connector to a 3rd party provider via their API. I’ve created workflows that trigger on ticket type creation and I want to pass data from the ticket into the data connector. The List attribute in the ticket definitions exposes meaningful text for the agent, but the API requires a numeric value (in this case it’s a priority, where we want to present Urgent | High | Medium | Low, but the API expects 1 - 4).I’ve chatted with Intercom Support and they’ve said this isn’t possible at the moment, so leaving it here as a feature request.

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prakashhindujagenevaNew Participant
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Prakash Hinduja Switzerland : How do I integrate Intercom with my CRM?

Hi Team, I am Prakash Hinduja from Geneva, Switzerland, I am consultant and advisor of crypto, renewable energy and gold investment. I'm currently looking into integrating Intercom with our CRM system. I came across the standard integration guide in Intercom’s help center, but I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has already done this. Any tips, challenges, or best practices you can share would be super helpful. RegardsPrakash Hinduja Switzerland  

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Nur Nahid
Super User ✨
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Richard CherskovNew Participant
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Newbie question using socials and new conversations

Hi there, I am starting with a very simply implementation. We are only using Facebook through socials to start (no web or mobile implementation.) We have a workflow that I want to run whenever someone opens a new conversation with us. I don’t want it to run the workflow for that person again until we close the conversation. Our workflow asks some basic questions and then assigns the conversation to me. I want to them communicate manually with the lead and then once I am done I want to close the conversation, and the next time they message us they get the workflow again.Thank you!

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Emilygav
Intercom Team
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CJ NeillNew Participant
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Incomplete workflow auto close message

Hi team, I’ve set to close my incomplete workflow after 15 mins in AI settings. I’m not seeing an option to include a message for this action. Any suggestions? 

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CJ NeillNew Participant
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Reusable Workflow overriding sequence

I’ve creating a reusable workflow that has “wait” 15 minutes as the first command. Whenever I try to add to sequence on my workflow, it takes priority before the items in that sequence which I did not intend. I want the reusable workflow to kick in after 15 mins. How can I make this work? Thanks!

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Paul Byrne
Intercom Team
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Christina KenneyNew Participant
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Workflow clarification request to redirect and call attention to missed convos and tickets after a duration of time

I have a current Workflow planned where if teammate has replied is false, no one is assigned, and the last time the user was last heard from 3 days ago, it should tag the conversation as a missed connection and put an internal note to call on internal admins to view. I want this to be configured with business hours in mind so that weekends and holidays don’t count towards the 3 day rule. Would adding AND during default office hours work in this way, or would it recognize the workflow and scan for missed convos during business hours only, or only let us know during business hours, etc. I’m a bit unclear about how this will operate from the condition descriptions and am unable to preview Are there other time/duration related conditions that are possible for workflows, such as giving a general date range (weekly, weekdays, weekends, etc.) that are on the way or being considered for the product roadmap in terms of workflow building?

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Paul D
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kiran RNew Participant
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Web integration

Hey guys i am working on a project where i need this intercom ,  in my project there are three people issuer , investor and admin both  the issuer and investor can able to connect with the admin can e achieve this  using your sdk just let me know

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Jacques Reynolds
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Tim ForanNew Participant
asked in Automations
Intercom / Slack integration - now showing "Received participant added notification" instead of conversation content

Our company has an automation between Slack and Intercom, such that when a new conversation is started in Intercom, we received a message in Slack with the contents of that conversation.  Starting today, for seemingly no explicable reason on our end, instead of the conversation contents being posted in Slack, we are just seeing “Received participant added notification”.  We’ve seen this occur twice, with the first instance occurring roughly 35 minutes ago.“Received participant added notification” is a string used by Twilio (upon which Intercom is built), and so we’re wondering if there’s a bug on Intercom’s side that is resulting in the notification being posted via the automation instead of the conversation contents.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Aleksei O
Aleksei OActive User
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Multiple keywords in the branhces

Hey team! Is there a way to somehow use multiple trigger words within branch for OR conditions? My goal is to build a custom action (data connector nowadays?) that would trigger once one of the keywords is used by the prospect, however that would be over 100 items. Is there any way to achieve this result without having to type in the word for every trigger word despite what article from help centre suggests?  

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Paul Byrne
Intercom Team
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PhilippHooNew Participant
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Workflow Block: Route by Content powered by Fin

I would love to have a block in Workflows where I can define a set of topics like:Cancelation Product Idea Feedback Return  Other (always exists) …. Each one opens a new branch in the workflow. Which path the user is channeled through is decided by an AI content analysis with Fin. If Fin is not sure, it always uses “Other” as fallback branch. This would really help qualifying the inbound message, and start follow up flows, route to Fin, route to Team etc,

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Paul Byrne
Intercom Team
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Matthew NeeleyNew Participant
asked in Automations
Workflow that can update a customer ticket when a linked tracker ticket is updated.

It would be massively beneficial to enable the ability to create a workflow that can update a customer ticket when a linked tracker ticket is updated. I spoke to Karsten about this in chat and was informed he would submit a feature request for this. 

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mateusz.leszkiewicz
Intercom Team
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Allina VerrilloNew Participant
asked in Automations
Automating emails when teamates send inital email

Our team typically sends emails to users (generally asking for more information on a specific account). Is there a way to set up a workflow that sends an automated followup if the user doesn’t reply within a specific time frame? When testing the workflows, I tried using these:When a customer becomes unresponsive - this requires the user to respond, which doesn’t always happen When a teammate sends any message - this doesn’t have the option to send an email, only a message or note

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Sebastian_VNew Participant
asked in Automations
Showing a Banner to First-Time Visitors (Not Signed-Up Users)

Hi everyone,I'm trying to set up a banner in Intercom that only shows for first-time visitors—specifically, those who haven't signed up or logged in yet. The goal is to show this banner to completely new users who are just landing on our site for the first time.I believe this is possible through Intercom's targeting logic, but I haven't been able to get it to display correctly. I’ve already created the banner and set some targeting rules, but it’s not showing up as expected.This is where I got stuck, I wanted to check here first in case anyone has done this successfully or has advice on setup?Has anyone managed to get this working? Would love any tips or steps to follow!Thanks!

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Adam Warden
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Max ZNew Participant
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Can we auto-tag conversations within Resolution bot the same way we have the option of tagging conversations with custom bots?

Would be helpful for reporting :)

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Kristof BergerNew Participant
asked in Automations
Waiting on external Event/Message/WebHook

Hi all!We are trying to find a way to raise an event from an external application into a FIN workflow, in order for it to continue processing.Explanation:We have an action as part of an app, which can used in workflows to trigger our functionality. This action will call an API on our backend, which will in turn trigger a flow to start a client-component via our own websocket. This works as expected.At some point, this client-component (or our backend) are in a position to say that the job is done. We want to send this information into the ongoing conversation/workflow between the user and FIN, so that the workflow automatically continues.It looks like there is no way of doing this, except for the closed beta FIN Tasks (this is what FIN suggested to me when asking it).Is this true? Is there no way to send external messages in to a process to trigger events? Thanks for any help with this :-) -kristof

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Paul Byrne
Intercom Team
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ShevNew Participant
asked in Automations
Can I trigger chatbot responses to send a Slack notification?

I have a “notify Slack” workflow that’s triggered when a customer sends any message, but I can only see the customer and teammate messages in the conversation. Is there a way to see the Fin responses as well? This would help us a lot with triaging, and improving the chatbot responses as well. 

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Jacques Reynolds
Intercom Team
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AdamChenAppierNew Participant
asked in Automations
How should I make Object Mapping with response of a list?

Hi team, I’m trying to fetch user information with external API. The example response was like : { "list": [ { "customer": { "id":"123", "first_name": "Darth", "last_name": "Vader", "email":"darthvader@deathstar.com" } } ]}I can see the example response in Data Access but since the first layer is a list, I can’t mapping that in Object Mapping. Could you suggest how should I mapping these data? Thank you. 🙏    

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Paul Byrne
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Tristan KenneyConnector
asked in Automations
Workflow questions related to Intercom Phone

Hi all!We’re currently running into some issues related to Workflows that are triggered from calls coming in.What I’m not able to work out is how to successfully automate conversations created from phone calls. Specifically, How can I automatically close conversations associated with calls that were abandoned in the queue How can I associate SLAs with conversations associated with calls that have a follow-up action – e.g. listening to a voicemail / calling a customer back.With 1 it doesn’t seem possible to have a catch-all action for the unmatched paths. For example, in one of my phone workflows I have:   A: Is an IVR PromptC: Is a hold and assignB: Is voicemailIdeally I’d want to be able to target the drop-offs with a ‘close conversation’ actionWith 2, I’ve tried to add to an SLA workflow based on tags being added to the conversation, however it doesn’t seem to be triggering – I’m assuming because the tags are being added via a Workflow rather than a teammate.  Happy to be pointed in

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