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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!
How can conversation data, along with bulk attachments, be exported from the Help Desk?
We were able to setup Intercom using @intercom/intercom-react-native library on iOS and Android, but we’ve some questions for Android push notifications.We added the drawable icon and it’s being used but the icon used in the notification is different. Is there a way to change it? Do you know why Intercom’s notifications are not grouped with the notifications of my application?
We are experiencing an issue with manually booting the Intercom messenger in our React Single Page Application (SPA) using react-use-intercom.Goal: We need to initialize Intercom (using boot) only after a user successfully logs in, providing their userId and userHash (Identity Verification). The launcher should not appear on the login page.Problem: The Intercom messenger launcher fails to appear on the very first login after starting the application. However, if we then refresh the page, or log out and log back in during the same browser session, the launcher appears and works correctly.Implementation & Troubleshooting:We use <IntercomProvider appId="..." autoBoot={false}> wrapping our AuthProvider. Inside our AuthProvider, a useEffect hook triggered by the user state change calls Intercom('boot', { userId, name, userHash }). We've confirmed the boot function is called with the correct user data. We've confirmed window.Intercom exists before calling boot. We tried adding sign
I'm looking for a way to export conversations from Intercom. More specifically, I'd like to export emails, posts and chats and replies from customers as we are replacing Intercom. Does anyone know if that's possible somehow?
Hi everyone,I’d love to get a conversation-type thread going! Is anyone using Fin actions and tasks in practice already?If so, it would be cool to share some best practice examples and your experiences, especially with technical and security aspects of connecting Fin and customer data to APIs.
What best practices/workarounds are out there for enforcing ticket tagging in Intercom before close? I saw the topic on 'Topics' but we are highly ingrained in Conversation Tags and need to require them before a conversation can be closed. It appears in Inbox rules that conversation tags aren't an option, only person or company tags which is not helpful for this problem.
Looking to graph monthly numbers on:• Monthly count of articles used in emails and chats by humans• Same for AI
Hi - We want our users to be able to interact with Fin but not give certain domains the option to “Talk to a person”. Is it possible to configure this? We are open to turning this off for all customers for now, if we can’t turn it off for specific customers
Would be helpful for reporting :)
In a Series, I can tag all users who go through the Series based on messages they’ve received.What about in a post or product tour that is not in a Series? Focusing just on Posts, I know how to tag users who have received the Post, but how do I ensure that users who receive the Post in the future will also be tagged?
Why does intercom not allow level hierarchy in tagging conversations?
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
My company has three products. Each of them have their own knowledge center. Each customer conversation is tagged based on which app the user originated from. Fin doesn’t seem to be able to connect the dots that when a conversation is tagged with Product A, it should use the associated knowledge center. I have provided this instruction via the guidance section of the training system.Do you have suggestions about how I can get FIN to focus it’s answers based on a tag?
In my workspace, we sometimes have some chats that go the Unassigned bin and we'd like the ability to have Round Robin apply to these chats we send over to another team for action. Ideally, once it is assigned to the desired team (this team uses Round Robin), that inbox rule will apply to the previously Unassigned chat and assign it to someone who's online at that time. Has anyone ever had any luck in doing this?
Hi everyone,Is it possible, in Intercom, to have on the Home page for Messenger (both Web and Mobile) to have a link or a button/widget that allows customers to call a specific number?I’ve managed to place a “tel:+1” on a message in a workflow, but I haven’t been able to place a number that’s easily accessible both on web and on mobile SDK. e.g.: Customer opens Messenger and clicks on an element and that straight calls the number reflected there, just for easier access.Also, on Home (Web) by customizing it with Apps the external links one interestingly accepts “mailto:” , but not “tel:”Any help? Or am I asking for features that don’t exist?
Over the past few months I have been using a custom report to review conversations containing certain keywords using the chart drill-in feature. Usually the full conversation is shown within the reporting tab as that is easier to click through the conversations quickly. However, the past week or so I have had issues with the conversations not being shown and need to use the ‘View in inbox’ button in order to review the conversation. It is usually less than 1,000/month that get pulled into the report. When I try to refresh the report it populates the first few conversations but then goes back to just showing a blank page (shown below). Is there any way to resolve this so that all conversations are able to be viewed using the drill in feature?
When I make an outbound call, it adds me as a contact in the client profile. Here are the steps:select a contact in intercom start a new conversation click the plus button in the top left corner to select phone call as the type of commsWhen I return to the page showing contacts, I then am added as a contact for the business. Client data is synced from Salesforce. So typically if I dial out with a number that we don’t have in SF this is where we’re seeing me being added as a contact.
Getting 403 error again and again whenever i am suppose to login in a old account of mine in intercom and if i create a new account then also this 403 error is occured. And my second problem is that i can’t make a new content in https://app.intercom.com/a/apps/we8zvuag/knowledge-hub/all-content whenever i clicke on NEW CONTENT “That data could not be loaded. Please contact customer support.” this is appear and if i contact to your customer support there is no reply back its my urgent work please look up on this.
Hey there, Anyone have advice on how to track:• Monthly deflection count by AI using an article (ie. user opens chat, gets AI suggestion for article, doesn't open a support ticket).• CSAT for deflected cases (where a human wasn't needed) vs cases that result in a ticket where a human needed to get involved.Any help is appreciated.
Our team will use the Notes function to add details to some conversations. For example, they'll add a link to a Shortcut ticket if they escalated the issue to another team. We would like to quickly identify/surface these notes for quick action when following up.
I’m trying to use a custom HTML template to send an outbound message (it’s an A/B test, not sure that matters) and when I click “Schedule and set live” I get the error message “Attribute json blocks for html blocks contains an invalid message template variable.” I sent 10 Preview messages successfully to various email addresses for testing, and only encounter the error when I try to set the email live. I built the email in Figma with the Emailify plugin. I have exported code before using the same programs and didn’t get this error but obviously this is a different email with different styling. I am clearly not a programmer (I know just enough to be dangerous) and I am comfortable making minor changes in HTML. I have read the help desk article https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/245-creating-html-emails and I see the list of supported HTML blocks but am not sure how to search in my code for something *not* allowed. Happy to share the full code with someone who can help.
Is anyone finding the Conversation Topics report useful, or using it successfully for their reporting?I am finding that the report is lacking in some ways:There are many suggested topics which are not good, and they cannot be deleted The bubbles on the chart require that you have to mouse over some topics to see them, making it hard to screenshot for a reportAny tips would be great!
My configuration to restrict article to certain customers (audience) is not working. i have setup a custom domain and the security protocol is active "HTTP (quick setup) Active" but when I go to select audience, the plus button is still grayed out. I was also told I need to enable cookie forwarding but am not sure where to do that? We use godaddy to host our website. Any guidance on how to do cookie forwarding?
Is it possible to embed the Help Centre in a webpage on one's website, or embed single articles, or embed a list of a collection, etc?
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