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Christine Z
Employee
Christine ZEmployee
posted in Messenger
Feedback Needed! Customizing the Start Conversation Button in the Messenger

Hi everyone 👋 Soon you’ll be able to change the phrase used in the start conversation button on the Messenger Home screen via a drop down of options. We’d love to get your feedback on if these choices resonate and if you have suggestions you’d like to add. Right now we’re considering Send us a message, Ask a question, Chat with us, Talk to us, Contact us, and Start a conversation.    Just let me know in a comment below! PS - this first iteration won’t support a free text input, just a selection of pre-canned options.  Thanks, Christine 

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mercury2768Connector
asked in Workflows & Automations
Bug with Chrome for workflows

There seems to be a bug specifically with Chrome in workflows. I cannot select a path (line arrow) and press delete. It won’t delete. This does work correctly in Firefox.

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mercury2768Connector
asked in Workflows & Automations
Transform customer response before creating JSON body in Data Connectors?

I’m trying to implement a newsletter signup. User enters their email and if they want to be on the marketing list or the build announcments list.  The way I have this setup in sendgrid is via a custom field request should be something like: {   “email”: “john.doe@appleseed.com”,   “list”: “marketing”}Right now I can easily collect boolean values for if the user wants marketing or build announcments but I can’t see a way to transform that into the correct string to insert in the body. Thanks!

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Mark WalkerNew Participant
asked in Messenger
A coexistence strategy for the Messenger/Fin and first party AI chat tools

My company is developing its own conversational AI feature. Our tool will be trained on the data that our users have in our product and help them answer questions about it or do analysis on it.We are now working on how we will have two chat tools co-exist in our product. Aside from making it clear to users which tool to use for which type of question, we’re working on a real estate problem. We can use the available launcher location setting to move the launcher to the left, to make room for our first party tool on the right. Though because the information density in our product is loaded to the left, we would rather have the launcher be pinned to the left edge of our chat tool. So two chat tools lined up next to each other on the right. It is not clear from the documentation about the custom launcher that we can accomplish this. https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/2894-create-a-custom-launcherDoes anyone have experience creating a custom launcher that could lend any advice about

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Brice BENENew Participant
asked in Workflows & Automations
Workflow + Reply step + API

Hello guys,I’m facing a strange behavior. I think it’s an issue but I would like to explain it so you can confirm it.  Configuration:Workflow Ticket Trigger : “If teammate changes the state of a ticket”From the API, I’m changing the ticket state. I have a workflow where one ticket state leads to a Reply step. If no answer is given from the customer, not any other possible path is used when trigger is made. Ticket state is changed but trigger is not done. Here is an example. When ticket state is changed “waiting_for_check_in2” message “Reminder check-in 2 (30min)” should be sent. It’s not.  It really sounds like a bug to me. It’s not written anywhere (at my knowledge) that “Reply” step is blocking any new trigger. What do you think?

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Ana HenryNew Participant
asked in Knowledge
How can I display all the search results in articles? It only appears to show 10

We are building a substantial knowledge base collection of articles in intercom.  However, many terms are repeated in the article, and when one searches for such a term, only 10 articles are displayed.  How do we get a list of all the articles, even if we need to scroll through several pages?

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Markus FNew Participant
asked in Messenger
React error #185 triggered by Intercom Messenger script

Hi Intercom team,We’re experiencing a React crash that appears to originate inside the Intercom Messenger widget. The error is: Error: Minified React error #185Stack trace points into this script:at Messenger.componentDidUpdate (https://js.intercomcdn.com/app-modern.4b8f9f21.js)at https://js.intercomcdn.com/vendor-modern.50137b6e.jsCould you confirm if this is a known issue?Thanks, Markus

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mukeshkarkey
mukeshkarkeyNew Participant
asked in Knowledge
Mukesh Karkey : How can I use webhooks to get real-time updates from Intercom for my application?

Hello,My name is Mukesh karkey , I'm trying to integrate Intercom with my application to receive real-time updates for events like new messages or conversation assignments. How can I set up Intercom webhooks, what event types should I listen for, and how can I handle and process the webhook payloads on my server? Any example code or best practices would be greatly appreciated!

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Malachi HopoateConnector
asked in Knowledge
Article views by CRM data

I’m trying to associate article views to actual companies or even individuals so that can use this data in decay analysis and compare against renewal and expansion. Is this data really not available? Do I have to lock down my KB behind a login to get this info?

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Joseph S.
Expert User ✨
Bryan Braddy
Bryan BraddyNew Participant
asked in Inbox
SLA Warning Notification

We have recently moved from a different ticketing system to Intercom.One of the features we miss the most of the old system is notifications on conversations that are ABOUT TO breach their SLA. This would serve as a reminder for any conversation that was in the queue and give us a chance to respond before it was officially out of compliance.As another submission posted, we bounce between applications all day long and it’s easy to miss a conversation on the verge of breaching SLA.

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Joseph S.
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Nora CNew Participant
asked in Knowledge
How to add articles to multiple collections?

Is there a way to select multiple collections to have the same article. Instead of having to add the same article one by one to each collection?

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ValeriiaNew Participant
asked in Knowledge
How can I add an article to several collections?

Hello everyone!  Had been a little confused while creating articles and collections for my students.  We've got 2 collections like "Methodology helper" and "Assessments", where I want to put the same articles about the process and meaning of assessments. But as I see it, Intercom doesn't allow adding one article to more than one section. And the possible solution of creating two of the same articles just to put them in different collections looks kind of strange to me, as we can't get the right statistics of the use of this material. Does anyone know any ways to fix it? Thank you in advance!

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Nicolette Godlove
Nicolette GodloveConnector
asked in Messenger
Back-office tickets not auto assigning to creator

When we link a back-office ticket to an open conversation that we are working on, it does not automatically assign that ticket to the user who created it and is in charge of completion. This often leads to the ticket being left “unassigned” which poses a lot of issues and then manual clean up for our team. It would be ideal for the back-office ticket to auto-assign the user who created it to avoid it becoming unassigned and then us having to clean up the unassigned folder often.

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Steeve Cayla
Innovator ✨
Nurit
NuritActive User
asked in Inbox
Send a Slack alert when the number of conversations linked to a tracker ticket reaches a certain number

Some co-workers who don't regularly check Intercom need Slack notifications when a certain number of conversations are linked to a tracker ticket.I’ve considered a few options. The first is a workflow that checks the number of "customer reports" repeatedly, but there isn't a "wait" option in a ticket workflow, only snooze, which I want to avoid.The second option is sending a webhook to a third-party service to check linked conversations via an API call, but this would involve too many calls.Another option is creating a view that filters for customer reports above a certain number, but that doesn’t help since those needing alerts aren’t always on Intercom. Is there a better solution?

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Martyn PottsNew Participant
asked in Outbound
Change default sender for my new conversations

When I create a new conversation to my client via Whatsapp in Intercom (logged in as myself), the default sender always loads as one of my colleagues so I have to change it every time. Is there any way to change the default sender to my own profile? 

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Nur Nahid
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GernotNew Participant
asked in Outbound
Is it possible to send the first question (e.g. NPS rating) as part of an email to improve response rates?

If not, is it planned to enable that? Are there ways how I could build that kind of template on my own? (Developer background is present). Thank you very much in advance :)

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Anusha HemanthNew Participant
posted in Outbound
How can I share product tours in checklists (as hyper link) if the product tour has a variable?

I'm trying to provide product tours as a choice in the form of hyperlink within a task of checklists, but because the workspace portion of the site is a variable, it isn't translating. Am I missing something, or is this just not possible as of now?From within the product tour settings:https://cloud.precisely.com/workspace/{{custom_data.workspace|fallback:"0"}}/data-observability/observers/observer-detail/?product_tour_id=423036 

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ls.samueNew Participant
asked in Outbound
Display the NPS survey according to the user's language

Is it possible to display an NPS survey in multiple languages within a single survey, based on the user's language? We would like to have a consolidated overall NPS, but to achieve this, the text needs to be shown in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, depending on the user. If we create separate messages, we will need to extract and calculate the NPS outside of Intercom.

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Janice ChuengNew Participant
asked in Outbound
Is it possible to insert images in WhatsApp templates on Intercom?

I know it could be done on Meta or other CRM platform. And u know the messages are way more attractive if media files added. Or is it just like a paid alternative function on intercom?If yes please let me know how much is it for that. Thank you!!!

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tvieiraNew Participant
asked in Inbox
Can I split a conversation into different issues?

When a client shares more that 1 topic per conversation, it would be useful to split the conversation into different issues to close them 1 by 1. 

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Lívia PegoraroNew Participant
asked in Outbound
Tooltip not appearing when set live

I configured a tooltip to appear on all pages of the platform that are reports - that means, pages ending with “….../reports/”. I’ve already checked all the URL filters, placement, and audiences, and in Intercom’s internal test the icon appears. However, when set live it does not appear for any of our clients on our platform.Can someone help me out with this? Don’t know who to contact from Intercom.

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KatMarselloNew Participant
asked in Outbound
NPS survey response rate

Hi everyone, We recently started using Intercom’s NPS survey feature, but we’ve noticed our response rates have dropped significantly compared to our previous tool.In our old setup, there were a few things that really helped boost responses: A “dismiss” option that let users hide the survey temporarily, and then reshow it later. An automatic follow-up email if someone closed the survey, giving us another chance to capture their sentiment. A Slack integration so our team could proactively reach out in real time. Intercom suggested setting this up through a Series (survey + email), but that would mean duplicating the Series every 90 days and sending all NPS requests at once, rather than based on user duration or behavior. That’s why we set it up as a survey, less manual work, but it does come with these limitations.We hoped that moving NPS into Intercom would give us deeper segmentation (e.g., being able to filter detractors, promoters, and neutrals by NPS survey, against our interco

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Viet TangNew Participant
asked in Inbox
Intercom React native has no update when new message comming.

I'm developing react native app using intercom (@intercom/intercom-react-native v5.0.0). Currently I'm facing problem that's intercom doesn't update for new message coming. Only update when I open conversation from launcher or kill the app and open again. I already set up push notification for the app and can receive it when app in background. Please help me

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Jon EavesNew Participant
asked in Inbox
Where is the Admin setting to remove the requirement for an iOS passcode?

New Team to Intercom…. Team member does not wish to use a Passcode on iOS portable devices (iPhone and iPad)The error message when he attempts to log in using Google is: ‘UNABLE TO SIGN IN TO ACCOUNT Your administrator requires you to set a passcode on this device to access this account, Please set a passcode and try again’ So it appears that somewhere in Admin settings is something that can by pass this - can anyone help please?  

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Stefan MNew Participant
asked in Knowledge
Is there a way to serve Intercom with Content Security Policy without style-src: 'unsafe-inline'

We would need to add Content Security Policy to our application. I saw this article on Intercom Help. There it is stated to use 'unsafe-inline' but I am wondering is there a way not to use it, since we would like avoid that in our policy?

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