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    Inna GrynovaNew Participant

    Allow splitting the conversation (in case of multiple questions)Submitted

    I can see that you’re already working on the merging conversation feature. Please add a related feature - to split tickets.Problem: A customer creates a chat with question A. We resolve it. Later customer reopens a chat with a question B, we resolve it. Later the same customer again reopens the chat with a question C. And so on. We have cases when the same customer keeps one chat for months and has there 10+ different conversations. That impacts negatively our team and individual statistic:agent gets 1 productivity instead of 10 the total resolution time is in months instead of minutes the reopening rate is 10+ instead of 0 for such chatsWe need to allow customers to reopen a chat in case our solution was not satisfying. But we can’t afford to keep all conversations with the same customer in one chat. Example on how this feature works in other tools:When a new message arrives that is not relevant to an existing conversation, an agent clicks on the details of this message and chooses “Split” or “Move” (depending on the tool, wording was different). Then in a pop-up window there’s an option to choose to which team a new chat should go to and to whom it should be assigned (optionally) + a question if an agent wants to keep this chat open or to close it. If an agents chooses to close it, there should be no CSat. If an agent chooses to keep it open, they can continue handling initial issue.As for that message that is chosen to be split/moved, it creates a new conversation in a relevant team. The conversation contains that message from a customer + a technical message in Intercom that it was split from another conversation (link to that conversation).The old conversation keeps the message that was “moved” but there’s a technical information that this message was moved to a new conversation by [agent name] + a link to that conversation.On the customer’s side, as soon as the split is performed, they see a message from Intercom in their old chat that their message was moved to a new conversation to be handled as a separate issue. When that customer opens a newly created conversation, they see “This conversation was automatically created to handle the issue you’ve raised in this message:” and later customer’s message is shown. A cherry on the top request: If I choose to split a conversation, allow me to move not one message, but a few. Many times, customers send each sentence as a new message instead of combining those in one paragraph. So it will be useful to move a group of messages to a new conversation.As for data and metrics:If a conversation was closed, then a customer reopened it, then an agent split the message and moved it to another conversation and chose to close this old conversation, then there should be no impact of number of chats re-opened, as well as the closure date should be initial. It’s due to the fact that in initial conversation no changes actually happened, it was just a wrong choice of a customer. 

    Madeline G.New Participant

    Add “Split Conversation” Functionality for Multi-Issue Email ConversationsSubmitted

    We’d like to request a “Split Conversation” feature that allows agents to break an existing conversation into separate threads when multiple, unrelated issues are raised by the same client in a single interaction.Use Case:Clients often reach out with multiple requests that span different topics or departments—for example, one message might include a billing question, a maintenance request, and a technical issue. Currently, all of this lives in a single conversation, which makes it difficult to: Assign different parts of the request to the appropriate teams Track resolution times and ownership accurately Maintain clarity for both agents and clients within the thread Proposed Functionality: Allow agents to select a message (or series of messages) and create a new conversation from that point forward Include the ability to optionally leave a reference link between the original and the new conversation Preserve original timestamps and metadata for auditing purposes Why This Matters:A “Split Conversation” feature would improve workflow efficiency, enable more accurate reporting by topic/team, and enhance the customer experience by ensuring that separate issues are handled cleanly and by the right people.Thank you for considering this improvement to conversation management! Let us know if there are any current workarounds or plans for similar functionality.