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How are y’all translating your articles?We just launched a Korean brand, and need our help center translated. I spent some time looking in the new “Knowledge” area, and was very disappointed in the lack of “Copy content to” options, or just duplicating all of the english content into the KR translation as a starting point. Even copy-and-pasting from the backend knowledge area was not usable and scalable for the help center. Am I missing something, or is it really this difficult to copy existing article content into a translation to be translated?
We setup a regular sync between our IC instance and an external website for industry-specific content/context. Filtered URL's to be specific to the pages we wanted, but it still resulted in nearly 25k+ pages being ingested; many of them were repeats/duplicates.Since then, we've attempted to delete/remove the source from the Knowledge center pages with no success. It appears to still be going through regular syncs of new content and never fully removes it. When asking Fin, they suggested it would require API intervention. Requesting assistance to have it fully removed.
Hello,Based on the documentation (https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/3894-using-intercom-with-content-security-policy), it appears that both unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval need to be added to our Content Security Policy in order for the JavaScript widget to function.From a security perspective, this raises serious concerns, as it increases the attack surface. Our reporting endpoint shows that unsafe-inline isn’t actually required by your code, but unsafe-eval is being triggered in the vendors-app-modern.js file at the following line:var mod = eval("quire".replace(/^/, "re"))(moduleName);Is there any way to eliminate this eval call? If not, we may need to reconsider our use of Intercom due to these security implications.Best regards,Salim
May I know how to configure the URL for Reply in our Messenger button? Currently it is not working for me when merchants click on that button.
How to reset 2FA for other teammate?
We've been using Fin for about 6 months and genuinely love it — but the analytics drive me crazy.I can see our resolution rate is 71%. Great. But when my manager asks "why isn't it higher?" I have nothing. Which topics is Fin struggling with? Did that KB article I wrote last week actually help? No idea.We ended up exporting conversations manually and doing our own analysis in spreadsheets, which is... not ideal.How are other teams handling this? Are you just accepting the top-line number, or has anyone found a good way to actually dig into where Fin is failing?Would love to know if there's something I'm missing in the native reporting, or if everyone's just cobbling something together.
It’s the second time I encounter the same pain-point at a company: keeping our help center’s articles accurate as our release cadence accelerates. Our doc is becaming outdated. We create new articles for new features, but we’re always lacking the resources to update existing content impacted by those changes. That’s problematic because our product is available on iOS, Android, and the web, with small but important differences across platforms. To make things even worse, we are based in the EU and support three languages. The discrepancies between these languages became substantial, leading to increased support tickets…
We are looking to setup that certain users are only allowed to edit internal help articles but not general public help articles. Currently you can only set permissions for all article editing, not just certain articles or collections. This would allow our support team to update the internal articles they use for supporting end users via Intercom without disrupting the end user help articles carefully crafted by our Marketing Team
When a tour step's "click target" is a button that opens a modal (Radix UI Dialog), the tour doesn't advance into the modal. The next step's target lives inside the modal, but: Clicking the tour tooltip after the modal opens dismisses the modal (treated as outside-click). The modal traps focus / sets pointer-events: none on <body>, which blocks the Intercom tooltip from receiving clicks. Is there a supported way to: Have a tour step target an element inside a modal that opens dynamically, or Pause the tour, let the user open the modal, and resume on a target inside it? Our targets already use data-intercom-target. Tested on the latest Messenger.
Curious how others are approaching Monitors and scorecards in Intercom since the release. What types of conversations are you flagging? How are you structuring your scorecards? What criteria are you using to evaluate performance? How are you using the results once you have them?What’s been genuinely useful for your team so far?
Hi! I was wondering if anyone has insight into what a good resolution rate for Fin would be? I know the marketing site for Fin says “Resolve 50% of your support questions instantly” - but is 50% the average that we should resolution rate that we should be seeing? We only just started our trial but are preparing support goals for the quarter and I’m not finding any information about this in the Help Center. I would love to hear Intercom’s thoughts on what they see across their own Fin averages or an average across all companies who use Fin, but it would also be helpful to hear from anyone who may have insight into this for their own company. Thank you!
I have successfully been able to integrate Product Tour for most of the platform. However, have a section within my platform where a workflow needs to be completed by the users.The workflow comprises of 4 steps and it’s a wizard style experience. all the 4 steps have the same URL and just the content on the page changes upon completing a step but the URL remains same.Issue: The pointers which are meant to appear on the step 2 of the workflow appears on the Step 1 itself. The CSS elements are not visible on the Step 1 but still the pointers appear.I have tried attributing the HTML with intercom <div> as well, the buttons are even highlighted in Pink within the tour editor after the attribution. It means the attribution worked, Despite this, the pointers appear on Step 1 instead of Step 2.
I believe Fin is great when it answers from connected docs, but it gets a lot better when it can see what happened before the user opened chat. I am looking at three ways to make it more proactive:page/URL targeting in Workflows event-based triggers and real-time session context written into internal notes The real difference seems to be whether Fin only gets a trigger, or whether it also gets the product activity that explains what the user was actually trying to do.Curious how others here are handling this: Are you using URL rules, events, or session notes? What’s been most effective in practice? Any tips for keeping the thread readable while still giving Fin enough context?
There should be a way to separate all back-office tickets from customer-facing conversations in the support queue. Ideally, they would have their own dedicated section in the Intercom dashboard so they don’t appear under the “All” tab, since these are not customer-facing tickets.
After starting a conversation or sending/responding in an email thread within intercom, is there a way to see it actually in the “sent” folder within outlook? I feel as though I cannot confirm if all my messages are actually being sent or leaving from my email address. I don’t like not being able to access outgoing messages from within outlook if they're sent from intercom but using the same email address..? Does anyone have any insight on this?
I conducted a site audit of my Help Centre and it returned a lot of redirects and 403s. The 403s I was able to fix. But the redirects and canonicals, I don’t know how to fix.Any help is appreciated.
At present Fin has a wide gap between confirmed resolved conversations and assumed resolved conversations. Our Help Centre articles are updated, it’s usually regarding more complex or personalised queries. Whilst some of the assumed resolved conversations are resolved, a lot of them are not. Is there a way to add in another follow up from Fin to check the resolution state and thus giving the user more time to respond to these. Moving forward it could be helpful to have inactive conversations to be escalated to a teammate so that the 'Assumed resolution' conversations can be automated within a workflow. From what I’ve been looking into it seems that a workflow on a customer being unresponsive can only start after a teammate reply rather than from a bot reply. When trying to set this up as an Attribute to route assumed resolved conversations to a teammate Fin just seemed to pass conversations along without trying to resolve them first.Any advice here would be appreciated - thank you!
A customer would reach out about a partnership and our Fin would rightly answer and suggest the customer reach out to partnership@, how sometimes the customers would then CC that email in the current conversation and Fin would not stop replying to both the customer AND someone from our company which looks bad. Is there a way to have Fin stop replying to the conversation if a customer CCs someone else? The only path I can think of is an escalation rule that would route to a human whenever someone asks about ta partnership, so Fin won’t even answer.
Using Intercom as a wishlist Our team is looking for a way to collect feature requests and feedback from our users. We have used third-party apps in the past, but we want to stray away from them for a number of reasons. My idea is to use Intercom for this. Our users would be able to select an option 'I have a wish/feature request' and build a workflow around that. My question to the community is: does anyone have experience with this? I am looking for tips, best practices and advice. The most important key points are:Convenience Users should easily drop their ideas with our team Overview Ideas/feedback/requests need to be grouped and segmented Automated Minimal teammate interference. Fin and automations should do all the work Public roadmap and public ideas are not what we're after.Open to your suggestions 😄
I am using a translation tool to write this text.I would like a feature that sorts the Help Center articles in ascending order, from top to bottom, by publication date.The chatbot gave the following response:Currently, there are no plans to implement a feature that automatically displays collections in order of publication date within the Help Center.Currently, the only way to sort items within a collection is by manually rearranging them using drag and drop; automatic sorting (e.g., by publication date) is not possible.
We are starting to sell to a number of customers in the FedRAMP space. Intercom is not currently in the FedRAMP marketplace. Any chance that this will change soon? I really don’t want to switch to a compliant platform, but I know that a direct competitor has a gov cloud version that we could use.
I have converted my Conversation attributes for issue types to Fin attributes using the UI workflow. I have an “Other” attribute set with the exact wording that Intercom fin suggested in case it couldn’t detect any of the others from my descriptions. I have them enabled for all audiences. I have a very simple workflow that starts with a user typing and branches to Fin answering. The audience is ‘custom → logged in users’. → What brings you here today? Let customer type → Let Fin handle → If escalated show reply time. When I send fin a message it finds the correct articles and guidance, but there’s no indication it’s detecting any of my attributes as the conversation log does not show the event and the attribute is not set on the conversation details panel. I turned on Urgency attributes to see if it would detect those as a test and it is not detecting them until the ticket is closed, which I think defeats the purpose. But at least I can see a log of when it detects it and it’s setting
Notice that I'm unable to resize this image by entering the new dimensions until I've first selected one of the resize arrows from the toolbar, at which point I'm able to type in the values directly.
Is it possible to resize images in the knowledge base articles?
Hello,We’re experiencing an issue when using showNewMessage with a pre-populated message.After the page and the Intercom widget are initialized, we call showNewMessage. However, if the chat widget has been opened and then closed beforehand, the chat opens without the pre-populated message. In contrast, if the widget has not been opened prior to calling showNewMessage, the message is correctly pre-filled and everything works as expected. Could you please help investigate whether this is a known issue and if there is a recommended workaround or planned fix? Thank you for your support!
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